Comment by _delirium

I'm curious why Al Jazeera has such a negative reputation in the US. Is their Arabic-language reporting different? I don't regularly follow them, but their English-language reporting seems to be professional and not greatly slanted whenever I've run across it. It's actually less obviously partisan, from what I can tell, than a lot of typical Western news sources (think MSNBC v. Fox News), even well-respected ones (think Libération versus Le Figaro), possibly due to their attempt to appeal to a fairly broad pan-Arab-world audience.