Wednesday, January 11, 2017

It's time to get to work

  • Watch this video:Isis and social media
  • Assignment--what is Al Jazeera, and why should you know about it?  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera
    Comment below by 5 p.m. Jan. 13.
  • Mideast map--learn countries by Tuesday

14 comments:

  1. Al Jazeera is an award winning, world wide media outlet at least partially funded by the Qatari Royal Family. Up until April of last year they had an office in the United States (Al Jazeera America) and operated out of New York. There is a lot of western skepticism centered around AJ due to their ties to the Middle East. I personally reference AJ quite a lot, have their app and follow them on Twitter. They do a good job covering world news.

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  2. Al Jazeera is an international news outlet that covers global affairs with, what some believe, an Islamic bias. They are one of the most popular news outlets in the world and should be recognized as such. With the Islamic faith growing more and more every day I feel it is vital that people recognize and respect their opinions.

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    1. Al Jazeera is the largest international news media outlet in the world. Known most for covering the Afghanistan war, they also cover a wide-range of topics, countries, and global issues. Although being partially controlled by the government of Qatar, surprisingly they tend to be less bias then most western news outlets.

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  3. A well-known news media outlet, Al Jazeera presents many views on issues around the world. On the site, aljazeera.com there are various pages to visit with news from different countries. So it is essential to have news coverage that remains (or attempts to remain) unbiased.

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  4. Al Jazeera is one of the largest news organization around the world, and is owned by the government of Qatar. The station is known for it’s willingness to broadcast dissenting views. It is important to know about Al Jazeera because of their extensive coverage of world news. It is also important as islam is becoming more and more prevalent. It is a good source to understand more opinions.

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  5. Al Jazeera is one of the largest news organizations in the world and is a state-funded broadcaster. To me, they are surprisingly objective and have less of a religious bias than some western news outlets.

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  6. Al Jazeera gained worldwide attention due to its live streaming of the start of the outbreak of war in Afghanistan. It is an unbiased news organization that does its duty to report over all sides of an issue. They include broadcasts from both Israel and Iran's views as well as videos from Osama bin Laden.

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  7. Al Jazeera is one of the worlds largest news organization that is owned by Qatar, a government, which is disputed. It's very important because of the simple fact it's a nationwide news media and unbiased, so trusting I would believe.

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  8. Al Jazeera is one of the largest international news organizations around the world, and has expanded into a network with several outlets. Al Jazeera is known for having an anti-western bias and its ability to broadcast dissenting views. It is important to know about this news outlet because they present worldwide news and cover all sides of a debate.

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  9. Al Jazeera, or Jazeera Satellite Channel, is one of the largest media organizations in the world and is partially owned by the government of Qatar. Al Jazeera gained popularity from covering the war in Afghanistan live and since has been a major outlet to find dissenting views from the west, offering a different perspective than traditional western outlets.

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  10. Al Jazeera is a satellite television network. It is one of the largest news organizations. It has been called a propaganda outlet for the Qatari government, with a main focus on Islamist perspectives, though the network does say it covers all sides of debate.

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  11. Al Jazeera is one of the largest news organizations in the world that broadcasts in English and Arabic. Al Jazeera is really important because they broadcasts the truths and real things that actually happen in the world.

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  12. Al Jazeera is one of the largest news organizations that has expanded into serveral networks with multiple language. It shows dissenting views that allow audience to get in touch with the real truth.

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  13. Al Jazeera is an international news media company based in Qatar, which has also expanded into other forms of media. It has been said that because of heavy censorship that the network is propaganda because of a lack of dissenting views.

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