What a joke! Anyone accusing Aljazeera of being left wing is an idiot.
Support for Palestine is universal in the Arab world. Aljazeera is funded by the Qatari government which is monarchist and capitalist, hardly left wing.
“Media Bias Fact Check” is just a few liberal nerds with using a vibes-based methodology. Its ratings are as meaningful as asking any random phydiology major with an OT job. Which is to say, anyone with the background and credentials and experience of the founder of the site and sole editor of the “sources” portion of every single rating.
Even if they try their best, they lack the media criticism skills to properly critique the sites and papers, and in fact accidental expose their lack of political and journalistic understanding through the approach itself.
First, they put their political bias scale onto an axis, and only one axis at that. This is absurd to anyone with any political understanding beyond American-centric horse race Dem vs. GOP dumbed-down nonsense. The real world has political biases from the owners of newspapers, the editors, the decision to use access journalism, the decision to use limited hsngouts with intelligence as sources, etc. And those reflect class interests, nationalism, nepotism, state control, etc. They just ignore that and try to slam it into their baby’s understanding of left vs right.
Second, their methodology has the false premise of neutrality, something that doesn’t exist. Every analysis brings with it the biases of the analyst, and these ones are obviously some kind of American liberals given how they discuss the alt-right. Rather than describe exactly why they think the New York Times, which regularly lies for the powerful and cites a limited cast of think tanks and state-affiliated sources, is so high on facts and low on bias, they just slap on a vibes rating from their “neutral” perspectives. These are not serious people. They have all the acumen of your high college roommate.
If you want to have a strong media critical approach to sources, you can’t let these losers decide what to read and digest vs. dismiss out of hand. There is no get-out-of-critical-thinking-free card. You have to learn media tropes, follow sources, memorize the major think tanks, know the NGOs and UN bodies and states and governments, and develop yourself politically and with a knowledge of history so that when some journalist + editor comes at you with some bullshit you can be correctly incredulous.
The easiest of these for liberals to start doing seems to be to recognize media tropes. I would recommend reading FAIR.org, including its older articles so you can recognize the value and foresight that media criticism provides. The podcast Citations Needed is also good for this and regularly has subject matter experts as guests.
You’ll have to DM them or wait 3000 days for them to respond 🤣
The last thing I needed today was for some German asshole to tell me that a news organization funded by capitalist monarchist Qatar has a left wing bias.
Frankly if you’re unironically posting this at this point, after it’s been debunked ad nauseum, you’re just a genocide supporting fascist too scared to say it out loud.
It should not come as a surprise that pro-palestinian paper is considered centre-left at least – is this astonishing somehow? Would we expect right-wing pro-palestinian media?
80% of victims being children shouldn’t really be surprising, given it’s a school in a country that’s 50% children.
It is not left wing. Only in the west is Palestinian support partisan. In the global south, most definitely in the Arab and Muslim world right, left and center all support Palestine
Aljazeera is funded by the Qatari government. Not left wing at all.
The Western perspective [or the website] is stupid because Qatar is a monarchy with a capitalist free-market economy and Islam as its official religion. Ignorance is not an excuse.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/al-jazeera/
What a joke! Anyone accusing Aljazeera of being left wing is an idiot.
Support for Palestine is universal in the Arab world. Aljazeera is funded by the Qatari government which is monarchist and capitalist, hardly left wing.
You are just a genocide apologist and a racist.
“Media Bias Fact Check” is just a few liberal nerds with using a vibes-based methodology. Its ratings are as meaningful as asking any random phydiology major with an OT job. Which is to say, anyone with the background and credentials and experience of the founder of the site and sole editor of the “sources” portion of every single rating.
Even if they try their best, they lack the media criticism skills to properly critique the sites and papers, and in fact accidental expose their lack of political and journalistic understanding through the approach itself.
First, they put their political bias scale onto an axis, and only one axis at that. This is absurd to anyone with any political understanding beyond American-centric horse race Dem vs. GOP dumbed-down nonsense. The real world has political biases from the owners of newspapers, the editors, the decision to use access journalism, the decision to use limited hsngouts with intelligence as sources, etc. And those reflect class interests, nationalism, nepotism, state control, etc. They just ignore that and try to slam it into their baby’s understanding of left vs right.
Second, their methodology has the false premise of neutrality, something that doesn’t exist. Every analysis brings with it the biases of the analyst, and these ones are obviously some kind of American liberals given how they discuss the alt-right. Rather than describe exactly why they think the New York Times, which regularly lies for the powerful and cites a limited cast of think tanks and state-affiliated sources, is so high on facts and low on bias, they just slap on a vibes rating from their “neutral” perspectives. These are not serious people. They have all the acumen of your high college roommate.
If you want to have a strong media critical approach to sources, you can’t let these losers decide what to read and digest vs. dismiss out of hand. There is no get-out-of-critical-thinking-free card. You have to learn media tropes, follow sources, memorize the major think tanks, know the NGOs and UN bodies and states and governments, and develop yourself politically and with a knowledge of history so that when some journalist + editor comes at you with some bullshit you can be correctly incredulous.
The easiest of these for liberals to start doing seems to be to recognize media tropes. I would recommend reading FAIR.org, including its older articles so you can recognize the value and foresight that media criticism provides. The podcast Citations Needed is also good for this and regularly has subject matter experts as guests.
Okay, but how does Al Jazeera’s media bias fact checks compare to the official podcast of lemmy.world, Cum Town?
You’ll have to DM them or wait 3000 days for them to respond 🤣
The last thing I needed today was for some German asshole to tell me that a news organization funded by capitalist monarchist Qatar has a left wing bias.
Frankly if you’re unironically posting this at this point, after it’s been debunked ad nauseum, you’re just a genocide supporting fascist too scared to say it out loud.
Just fuckin say it.
It should not come as a surprise that pro-palestinian paper is considered centre-left at least – is this astonishing somehow? Would we expect right-wing pro-palestinian media?
80% of victims being children shouldn’t really be surprising, given it’s a school in a country that’s 50% children.
It is not left wing. Only in the west is Palestinian support partisan. In the global south, most definitely in the Arab and Muslim world right, left and center all support Palestine
Aljazeera is funded by the Qatari government. Not left wing at all.
Ah, I assumed the website here had a western slant in its review.
I have no idea what the words you just stringed together mean. Can you rephrase it for someone who English isn’t their first language?
my apologies.
I meant: I assumed this website considers Al Jazeera leftist because the website has a western perspective.
The Western perspective [or the website] is stupid because Qatar is a monarchy with a capitalist free-market economy and Islam as its official religion. Ignorance is not an excuse.
Fun fact about Qatar: before Islam it was a center of Christianity and we know of one saint that was born there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_the_Syrian