LIBYA INDI NEWS Anywhere? US MSM is all in the War; BBC Under $ threat;; AFP=France, Al Jaz=Qatar

[Distant Observer]

Please post links to any news source that can be viewed as relatively independent.

I have never seen a conflict like Libya in which the Information Environment appears to be entirely control by one side. Everything from the unverifiable tweets and YouTube posts, to the annonymous phone interviews with Journalists, to the punditry, to the "exclusive" interviews with "high-level" actors -- seem to be from one side.

When we see how Fox and NBC carefully protect their conglomerate owners, can we really believe that media houses that are either directly owned or broadly influenced by the countries in which they are based will give us un-biased information about the conflict?

Is it even possible?

[snot]

1. Try these:

http://english.aljazeera.net

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/165941.html

http://angryarab.blogspot.com/

http://japanfocus.org/-Peter_Dale-Scott/3504

(Culled from threads in which DU'er Catherina has posted. She's the DU'er I'm aware of who seems to know the most about what's actually going on in the Middle East.)

[Distant Observer]

2. Al Jazeera in principally owned by the Qatari Royal Family -- w Saudi suppressing Bahraini protests

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Kick