I started watching Al Jazeera recently because I was becoming increasingly frustrated at how uncritically mainstream UK channels unquestioningly parroted the press releases from the UK, US and Israeli governments. There was no evidence-based investigation or analysis. There is a war taking place in which my country is complicit - ten of thousands of innocent civilians are being murdered by one of the most powerful military machines in the world but the Western media are siding with a state which has broken an encyclopaedia of international laws. Al Jazeera is the only channel to which I have easy access which takes a genuinely impartial and factual approach to covering the war in Gaza. Israel is killing their journalists and expelling them from the country and yet the BBC, Sky and ITN are allowed to continue to operate because they tow the line and suppress evidence and the truth. Time and again I see their reporting bending to appease Israel. It is frightening how these channels self-censor their reporting for fear of the backlash by powerful lobbies and politicians. I am extremely impressed by the integrity and fastidious way in which Al Jazeera goes about preparing its reports and programmes. Wars are complex but sometimes there are obvious aggressors and criminals whose crimes need to be exposed and declared as such. I am simply an ordinary UK citizen looking for objective journalism - unfortunately it is clear from some of the other reviews below that these reviewers simply don’t want to hear inconvenient truths but swallow the false propaganda of a dangerous rogue state.
