Al Jazeera: Bias or just a Different Perspective?

  In the first article I read, "Fresh violence breaks out in Yemen," I can't say that there was what most people generally think of as bias; I would call it more of a perspective. I also wouldn't say that it had any more of a bias than American commercial networks either.

This particular article's "perspective," as I'm deciding to call it, was objective in the sense that it had attributed quotes and gathered facts to support the author's coverage. The ways in which the author used these quotes and facts - the light the writer shined on it - was in any case to show governmental mistreatment to the citizens of Yemen even though they were involved in the violence. The author writes with sympathy for the violence inflicted on the people; however, he or she does not leave out details about police being killed.

Everything that the reporter mentions in the article had fact with attributions attached to them. This is mainly why I believe that his or her coverage is objective. Total objectivity is essentially impossible. Like American media, it, too, has a side. With violent anti-government protests like this with high amounts of violence on all sides is hard not to have one worse off than another. My only problem with the reporters coverage is that there are a few unnamed sources, but it seemed that with such violent ongoing story as this people don’t want to stick their necks out.