Al Jazeera-- the Arab CNN

Al Jazeera is center-stage in the modernization of Arab-language broadcasting. Al Jazeera, offers what no broadcaster in the region does - a world-class, free, uncensored, professional source of news and opinion. It is doing its job brilliantly, shown by the widespread criticism of its content by regimes in the region, Israel, and the United States. Of course it is sometimes biased - so are CNN, the BBC. "All news is something, someone, somewhere, doesn't want …

…Western and traditional Arab, fact-oriented and opinion-biased, socially responsible and sensational. Al Jazeera's official position on the matters of controversy is basically, a "we didn't create the situation, or kill the people, we are simply showing it for the world to see." And although they are aware that they are working against the laws of the Geneva Convention, they don't care, they think that it is their responsibility to show what is actually going on.