Al Jazeera Does Some Things Right

This paeon of praise for Al Jazeera summarizes it as "The Arab TV channel is visually stunning, exudes hustle, and covers the globe like no one else. Just beware of its insidious despotism." That being said, it's incisive style and breadth puts to shame the coverage our insipid news media provide. As the article states SEE HERE

One of the multitude of problems I have with Fox News is that even its most analytically brilliant commentators, such as Charles Krauthammer, seem to be scoring points and talking to their own ideological kind rather than engaging in dialogue with others.

Food for thought on Tuesday morning: How can we get more comprehensive coverage and at the same time expose the underlying biases of the coverage so they can be fully appreciated too? There was a time when that question was answered by saying it was the role of good journalism to do just that. But we are far past that time and now everything has to be viewed with a very very big grain of quite bitter salt.