[solarkraft]

I have no issue with Al Jazeera itself, but if they just republish a story they provide no value. It's not the original article and in this case they don't act like anything more than an (inflexible) aggregator.

This made sense in newspaper times (since compiling your news from multiple sources was hard), but in the internet age I don't see why it would.

The closer to the actual source the better (HN policy I strongly agree with).