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Open your mind. (i.imgur.com)

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[–]Aksama 51 points52 points ago

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Really? Al jazeera is the least biased news one can read.

Also, this is not your work.

[–]Spacehusky 20 points21 points ago

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Al Jazeera has its own biases just as every news source does.

[–]Aksama 0 points1 point ago

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Absolutely. I didn't imply that they had no bias. They simply have less bias than many other sites. It's basically impossible to cover news without a bias, even if there is no commentary, a cameraman will choose specific shots over others which develops a bias.

I merely appreciate their at least attempt to report facts and the like.

[–]orb360 0 points1 point ago

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True, but I think he's referring to Al Jazeera only spinning things at 85mph... While CNN spins things well past breaking the sound barrier.

[–]waaaghbosss -2 points-1 points ago

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You clearly missed the last few years if you actually believe this.

[–]Aksama 0 points1 point ago

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Show me a network less biased and maybe I'll bite?

[–]a_can_of_solo -2 points-1 points ago

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they've gone a little more anti American on their Arabic edition.

[–]waaaghbosss 0 points1 point ago

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A little is a bit of an understatement, although they've toned things down in the last couple of years :)

[–]Mackinstyle 32 points33 points ago*

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Have you even watched Al Jazeera? The fuck is wrong with you?

Everyone: Watch an hour of Al Jazeera (its free to stream) for tonight's homework, then make up your own mind on it. You'd be surprised how many people have just come to assume it's some terrorist, biased TV network.

[–]waaaghbosss 1 point2 points ago

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Oh, Al Jazeera English.

I thought the picture was of, you know, the other one, that has been the Fox News of the Islamic world for the last decade.

[–]Sleekery 4 points5 points ago

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Maybe if they had actually done this...

[–]LucasJSmith 4 points5 points ago

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This repost was better before it had news agency logos superimposed. Only put those on if the agencies actually did the deceptive crops!

Link that is clearly a repost but treats it as a demonstration of the duties of photojournalism, not a commentary on Al Jazeera and CNN.

[–]samisntstudying 1 point2 points ago

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Yeah the logos really shit on the whole point of the photo.

[–]rasputine 12 points13 points ago

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The "CNN" image is just as accurate as the middle one, the gun is nowhere near the dude.

[–]thebreaker 4 points5 points ago

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Came here looking for this. Thank you.

[–]arelaxedENT 0 points1 point ago

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It's the fact of having a gun in the image at all I believe.

[–]rasputine 2 points3 points ago

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They're soldiers. They all have guns.

[–]arelaxedENT 0 points1 point ago

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You must not understand propaganda.

[–]tagrav -1 points0 points ago

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wait a minute... Soldiers carry guns? mind blowing.......

[–]arelaxedENT 0 points1 point ago

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Wait a minute... You're being sarcastic! mind blowing...

[–]pistol_pete22 2 points3 points ago

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Downvote for repost. Old repost.

Plus, no news source in their right mind would make a vertical crop like that, even if they were trying to force bias.

[–]floppybunny26 2 points3 points ago

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Repasta bello!

[–]rabbitlion 3 points4 points ago

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Note that the logos are not related to the differences, none of them are connected to the photo itself.

[–]Quantos 2 points3 points ago

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That's the Aljazeera logo? Why exactly does it belong on the left?

[–]rrwrwx 1 point2 points ago

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Christ, really? Have you ever even been to Al Jazeera?

[–]loganed 0 points1 point ago

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question, what news company is the first picture?

[–]rrwrwx 3 points4 points ago

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al-jazeera, but this is a shit representation. Objectively, it's less biased than most american networks.

[–]Rhythmos 4 points5 points ago

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What is this magic objective test for bias you speak of?

[–]Kustav 0 points1 point ago

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The one on the left is Al-Jazeera, even though it is known to be one of the better sources for different discourses and lesser amounts of bias compared to other news agencies.

[–]fatfook 0 points1 point ago

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Way before photoshop there were scissors and way before that the framing of the original shot the way the photographer intended.

That's the power of photography.

[–]Spizzle_Trunk 0 points1 point ago

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I'm fairly sure that cameras were invented after scissors.

[–]fatfook 0 points1 point ago

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I'm talking about how photos were cropped for print before the digital revolution.

[–]bananahead 0 points1 point ago

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That image was a lot more powerful before you projected your own closed-mindedness onto it by adding those logos.

[–]matrixrory 0 points1 point ago

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oh no people are down voting because they have seen it before and no one else must see it. NO ONE!!!

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[–]Aksama 12 points13 points ago

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He didn't.

[–]cheechy2 -3 points-2 points ago

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Still our guys giving him water while they cut our mens heads off on television. So where is the problem still.

[–]Bob3333 -1 points0 points ago

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Yeah, Abu Ghraib didn't happen and Haditha didn't happen. It's all terrorist lies!

[–]cheechy2 0 points1 point ago

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Those acts were brought forward and the people responsible tried and reprimanded. How many countless acts of rape, torture, and homicide were brought forward and how many held responsible from any of our enemies side. Most of them get treated better in our establishments than they do in their own countries. While our men get dragged through the streets and hung up from light posts. Idiots doing stupid things is never good from our side and makes all of america look bad but do not fool yourselves into thinking we are the bad ones.

[–]Bob3333 0 points1 point ago

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I don't fool myself into thinking anybody is bad or good. Those are human concepts developed in each society and culture. What makes someone a good person in Pakistan is probably not identical to what makes a good person in Okinawa. There is significant overlap, but there's also a lot of divergence.

[–]AdelleChattre -4 points-3 points ago*

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That might have been a nice, cozy rationalization to wrap yourself up in once. Not any more and not for a long time. Fear and Vengeance led us up to a ghastly watchtower, so we could look out from far above the law, simple decency and the rest of humanity. They said we would connect the dots from up there, but they meant destroying our open society so we could stay securely locked in worry and suspicion. We have not just been foolish individually, or as a leadership, or as generations bound together in bad times. We have betrayed our core principles and made things ever worse. Things like rendition, torture, false imprisonment, collective punishment: they aren't just emergency measures, or just wrong. They don't just not work. They diminish us. They keep things spinning sideways. We knew better as a people once but that was back when what you're saying here may have meant something. That was before we went mad, and we let Cheney start working what he called the dark side. That was back when more of our guys died at the hands of the enemy than at their own hands, remember? If it is worth fighting for, it is worth living up to. We've had plenty of fighting. Let start living up some.

[–]Rollerboi 0 points1 point ago

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nice repost.

[–]walshy420 -2 points-1 points ago

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BRAZZERS

[–]bornTobyWild -1 points0 points ago

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