International News with a focus on Al Jezeera English on Livestaion

1. How effective do you think the internet will be for Al Jazeera as it attempts to reach a U.S. audience?

Due to the bias and stereotypes most Americans make towards the middle east, I feel that the internet is the most appropriate method to reach out to the United States audience. This is because most Americans would probably reject the television station that would broadcast Al Jazeera. The internet has integrated into a place where most people find their news, because it's quick and easy. Just look at youtube and livestation, their popularity and number of viewer are exponentially rising each day. The internet is a great way for Al Jazeera to reach the U.S. audience.

2. Based on your own observations, do you think that Al Jazeera English should be allowed to broadcast in the U.S.?

Considering the first amendment of our constitution is the freedom of religion, press and expression, I feel that the U.S. should allow Al Jazeera right to broadcast. After viewing over an hour of Al Jazeera, I did not see anything indicating a bias towards hating Americans. We have all been misled to assume that Al Jazeera broadcasts support Anti-American efforts. In fact, they do a good job of just sticking to the facts.

3. What, if anything, do you notice about Al Jazeera's approach to telling news? How is it different than U.S.-based TV news outlets that you have experienced?

Surprisingly, Al Jazeera does a better job of keeping to the fact than most American stations. Just look at CNN news, the news words their broadcasts in a way that leads towards the network's liberal persona. For the most part, the broadcasting is unbiased. I mean I'm sure that had I been watching this station several years I'd see more of the bias. It's also fascinating to me that the actual footage of the broadcast are far less glamourous as they are in the United States. If you watching KING 5 new, you will see the news anchors and reports fully done-up in makeup and the sound and picture is perfect. However, watching Al Jazeera you can see that the broadcasts are much less informal and not as "hollywood". The clips seem to lack the perfect sound and picture that the United States news stations have.

4. While on the Al Jazeera site, be sure to check out the network's published Code of Ethics. Based on your observations, do you think they are adhering to them?

I feel that Al Jazeera does follow most all of their Codes of Ethics. The one thing that I noticed was that a lot of the reports interviewed victims. As a result, we see more of the victims side. This goes against their commitment to be entirely unbiased. However as we all know, it is nearly impossible to be ENTIRELY unbiased. But overall, I feel that Al Jazeera adheres to the majority of their Codes of Ethics.