international news sites

As I watched the different news channels I was surprised to see bias from these sites, aside from BBC World News. When I watched Russia Today I noticed that their articles and video footage kept indicating that Russia was an extremely great country, implying that Russia was superior to other countries. Also I got a feeling that this site was resentful of the U.S. by their choice of words and language. When watching Press TV I thought that this news site was relatively informal compared to other large news sites like BBC World News. They had a comments section at the bottom of the article for people to leave remarks, and some of the comments were distasteful. Other than that criticism I really was not able to tell much bias from Press T.V., and I would have to do further research to determine whether or not I thought it was biased. However, BBC News seemed to be the most accurate and fair news site of all on reporting worldly news. It was structured similarly to New York Times or USA Today. They showed no interest in one side or another and reported in “The Murrow Standard” of traditional journalism. This sites news coverage did not seem censored, but seemed like it was reporting fairly and accurately. Yet when analyzing the Al Jazeera News site, I got the feeling that they are very biased and there was an overall dislike for Americans. From previous research I came to learn that this site is extremely controversial because after September 11, they aired uncensored footage that was very disturbing to Americans. This site is not welcomed by Americans.

1. I do not believe that Al Jazeera will be very effective on the Internet because most Americans find this source offensive and believe it is a “terrorism” site. I do not think it will have very much success considering it is not welcomed by most Americans. Also, it has not been established as a very credible site, so most people will probably access more credible sites like MSNBC, for example.

2. Even though I believe that any news site should have the opportunity to be broadcasted, I do not think that Al Jazeera should. I personally think it should just stay available on the internet because I do not think it is the most credible news source and I do not support the way this news site covers the news. I think that it is offensive to many Americans and would not have very much success being broadcasted.

3. It was different than other sources because I noticed that they placed more emphasis on Middle Eastern events rather than events from other countries around the world. Also they have several reporters throughout the world covering events.

4. I did not notice any apparent mistakes from observing their site, but I do believe that from time to time they break rule #5 of presenting issues fairly without bias, because in the past I got the feeling that they represented US issues in a negative light and with some bias. However, I would have to study this site more, before determining if their code of ethics is truly valid.