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Stephen Pollard

ByStephen Pollard, Stephen Pollard

Opinion

al Jazeera English - the best, by far.

May 30, 2007 24:00
1 min read

Iain Dale is spot on in his estimation of Al Jazeera English:

I had assumed it was just Arab propaganda, but boy was I wrong. I sat transfixed for an hour as I watched story after story about world affairs without a hint of any kind of bias. This wasn't your typical soundbite reporting, it was indepth stuff from around the world.

I wrote much the same thing when it first started, and I have been hooked ever since. It really is superb - and manages something which the BBC finds impossible: to be unbiased in its coverage of Israel. Yes, Hamas et al have their coverage. But Israeli spokesmen are asked proper questions and not treated as war criminals. It's called even handedness - a concept entirely alien to the BBC.