Bock Blog Post Assignment #10

When reading articles and watching videos on the Al Jazeera English website, I find the information on their site to be mainly directed towards negative aspects of foreign related issues and even issues here in the United States. Most everything I have found on their website is written or spoken in a remotely bias opinion or sense of tone.

For example, there is an article titled "Ukraine raises $788m for Chernobyl dome" found on the front page of the website.  Now the title itself seems like a pretty optimistic title; Ukraine raising a significant amount of money for a dome.  Now, I personally have no idea what this dome is without reading the article. No knowledge of why exactly they need to raise this money for this particular dome. However, reading the amount of money raised in the title, it makes it seem like a good amount of money to build something. Then, I read the first line of the article, and it says, "Donors pledge $780m - less than Ukraine had hoped - towards containment shell at site of world's worst nuclear disaster." As I kept reading, I realized that the article's line "less than Ukraine had hoped" was not as negative as I had thought the article would be. So I continued to read more articles.

After reading two or three more articles, and watching two videos, I realized that maybe my first impression of the front page of the website was a little off. I had thought that since the stories on the front page of the website were all about negative things, and things changing, that the way in which the articles were written were going to be more bias than they actually were.

From the articles I read videos I watched, they were more informative than opinion based. None of the articles I read were bias, they just simply told factual details about current events. The only bias opinion that I came across was the ending line an an article titled "France and Italy to send Libya advisors". The ending line said this, "The rebels have been trying since mid-February to end Gaddafi's 41-year-old rule but have struggled against his more experienced and better equipped forces." The only bias remark would be "but have struggled against his more experienced and better equipped forces."