Why I Love Al Jazeera
Outlets such as CNN and the BBC don’t cover foreign news so much as they cover the foreign extensions of Washington’s or London’s collective obsessions. And Al Jazeera, rather than spotlighting people who are loaded with credentials but often have little to say, has the knack of getting people on air who have interesting things to say, like the brilliant, no-name Russian analyst I heard explaining why both Russia and China need the current North ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
Al Jazeera is an excellent addition to TV news journalism. However, I disagree with the unnamed Russian analyst who claims Russia and China need North Korea as a buffer from South Korea. A unfied non-nuclear Korea would be in the best interests of both countries.