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Dutch police use water cannon, detain 2,400 climate activists (www.aljazeera.com)
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[–] cloud@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

aljazeera link? i'm sure there are better sources

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aljazeera is pretty good as long as it's not reporting on middle east affairs or Kuwait itself.

[–] mambabasa@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

Qatar actually. I make this mistake too.

[–] mambabasa@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the BBC is good? If you have a good idea of a mainstream medium's biases, you'll be fine. Al Jazeera will have an obvious bias in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Palestine. If they don't have a beef with a country, they'll be fairly critical and well informed.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Both the BBC and Al Jazeera are reputable.

If I recall correctly Al Jazeera is even that bad in the middle east and even about Qatar itself, UNLESS you are in Qatar and reading/watching/listening to them in Arabic. Don't quote me on that last part though.