SITE OF THE DAY: Aljazeera Television

Aljazeera. The name just a few scant years ago conjured up (ridiculous) notions in many in the West that it was nothing but a mouthpiece for Al Qaeda. Those of us who watch Aljazeera know that is anything but the truth. This Doha-based international satellite television station is my choice for Site of the Day because:

For all the biased reporting one confronts these days in reputable stations like the BBC, CNN and CNBC, there is Aljazeera;

For what the BBC once was, and still is, but (sadly) less and less now, there is Aljazeera;

For what more balanced national stations that I sometimes watch like France's TV5 and Portugal's RTP try to be but cannot always be due to their national audiences and language constraints, there is Aljazeera;

For those who cannot stomach the dumbed-down hyperbole of tabloid-esque stations who give us mind-numbing 24 hour 'news' like Sky and (heaven forbid) Fox, there is Aljazeera;

For those of us who would like to get a more balanced, more fair and more objective view of what is going on in the Middle East and the rest of the non-Western world without all the neo-conservative posturing and misinformation by many governments, there is Aljazeera;

For those of us want our news without being filtered through a prism with a distinctly American (and myopic) worldview, there is Aljazeera;

For all the reasons we want to watch the news without feeling we're watching the dreadful Sun newspaper in moving image or being fed a daily porridge (gruel?) of misinformative, biased claptrap, there is Aljazeera.

I applaud this television station for having had the vision to realize that many people all over the world want their daily news to be as politically unbiased and objective as possible, whilst also being international in focus, and not continually obsessed with only what is going on in America and certain parts of Western Europe.

For all of these things, I watch Aljazeera. If you have the chance, I hope you do too.