Not a single cable provider in this country is carrying the new English Aljazeera network, but we get it here in the newsroom. I just watched an hour of it. Everyone has either a British or an Arabic accent. And they are SOOO fair and balanced. Both sides of every story are presented. But should they be giving terrorists equal time? Should the media have set up debates between Churchill and Hitler? Did we need to hear the reasoning of Pol Pot? Should fair and balanced always be the policy? I've never believed that journalists should be neutral. I believe they should have the intelligence to determine right from wrong and come down on the side of right. But most do exactly the opposite. I wonder what Aljazeera pays. I can fake a British accent.
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Are you ready to convert to Islam?
I love pork ribs too much.
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