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Sunday, December 03, 2006

Al Jazeera and BBC

I have used both as sources for recent events quite often, and both seem to me to be good sources. Yet, both differ in a very interesting point, which is style, they both cover similar events and both do in a manner that allows the reader to follow comfortably. Now Al Jazeera has bold titles such as 'Rumsfeld admitted Iraq failings' this is not wrong but it does but a aggressive note on the article before it is being read. While the BBC on the other hand supplies more diplomatic titles such as 'Rumsfeld urges Iraq tactic shift' now both these headlines cover the same event, yet the BBC one puts a very different light on the issue without having read either of the articles.
I would like to add two things here, first the BBC is a British governmentally owned and Al Jazeera began as Qatar governmentally owned, while Al Jazeera is now privatized the BBC to my knowledge still is owned by the British government.
The BBC takes a very diplomatic approach while Al Jazeera takes aggressive attacks to do the same as the BBC attempts to do which to tell the 'truth'.

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