[crazygringo]

99+% of interviews in American media aren't trying to challenge the interviewee. They're just trying to gather information from one side, and then they generally try to get a token representative quote from the other side at the very end of an article, but sometimes not even that.

So you seem to be trying to hold Al Jazeera to a vastly higher standard than mainstream US media, at least in this particular regard.

Simply reporting without comment on what important/influential individuals and groups are saying, and adding basic objective context, is a large part of mainstream journalism.

Pushback is often limited to the opinion pages.

[jdietrich]

>So you seem to be trying to hold Al Jazeera to a vastly higher standard than mainstream US media, at least in this particular regard.

The mainstream US news media would fall foul of broadcasting standards laws in a lot of liberal Western democracies. Here in the UK, due impartiality is a legal duty of news broadcasters. The First Amendment is not the norm globally and the US is exceptionally laissez-faire when it comes to the regulation of broadcast news.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-co...