Al Jazeera America

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

So, Al Jazeera America launched just a couple days ago and I wanted to know how you spags feel about it.

I had never heard of Al Jazeera before the nonsense about them airing the Bin Laden tapes and falling for the "STARTS WITH AL, MUST BE TURRIST" meme. While I managed to step back from that bad signal early on, I didn't pay any attention to the network until the Arab Spring, because they were the only ones covering it in any sensible way. Now that it's available, it's overtaken CNN as the default background noise and I'm super enthusiastic about the switch. The selection of what to cover has been much more in line with what I think is worth talking about, there's no screaming matches between two arbitrarily selected representatives of opposing view points, and the reporting is pretty solid.

[Cain]

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[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Al-Jazeera English seems to have superior coverage, and there have been some credible accusations of plaigarism.

Do the networks have the kind of relationship where it would be plagiarism and not sharing the load?

[LMNO]

Plagarism how, exactly?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Plagarism how, exactly?

Publishing someone else's work of fiction?

[Cain]

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[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Plagarism how, exactly?

Took a Reuters article and published the first paragraph almost word for word without attribution.

Oh, sorry. The way you worded it originally my brain went to "plagiarized Al Jazeera English" which just sounded weird.

[Cain]

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[LMNO]

Plagarism how, exactly?

Took a Reuters article and published the first paragraph almost word for word without attribution.

Well, that's not cool.