There is no question that the Western media have been making a hash out of news from the Middle East.  This was most evident in the flaws in the Associated Press account of the bin Laden video.  However, willing as the spirit of Mosaic may be, I still find Al Jazeera English to be my best source for Middle East reporting.  They seem to have found a good balance between their use of the wire services (my only argument with them being that they should be more explicit about which services they use for which stories) and the contributions of their own staff (not always given by name, again unfortunately).  On my own blog on Saturday I took a good look at how Al Jazeera covered the bin Laden video using my own critical analysis of the Associated Press account as a baseline:

http://therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com/2007/09/more-data-about-bin-laden-video.html

Check out the hyperlinks as well as the post.

Thanks Amy.

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