"Do you perceive Al Jazeera America as an objective news source."
Wrong question.
(ADDED thanks to milsorgen's comment: particularly wrong when there aren't controls for their MSM competition.)
Now, I haven't seen any of it yet, but I've heard from multiple sources they do stuff the MSM doesn't do, aside from Fox and the OPED page of The Wall Street Journal. E.g. gather a not completely biased set of talking heads and let them talk.
The don't have to be "objective", they can have an obvious Muslim/Arab slant, they need to be interesting ... and with only Fox for opposition it's entirely possible they can pull it off. Especially since their powers that be aren't part of the US MSM's monoculture.
I concur. When I read Al Jazeera or China Daily, I don't do it because I trust them, or by any means think they're objective. I read them to get an idea of how other parts of the world perceive events. You could say I read them because they're not objective.
Wrong question.
(ADDED thanks to milsorgen's comment: particularly wrong when there aren't controls for their MSM competition.)
Now, I haven't seen any of it yet, but I've heard from multiple sources they do stuff the MSM doesn't do, aside from Fox and the OPED page of The Wall Street Journal. E.g. gather a not completely biased set of talking heads and let them talk.
The don't have to be "objective", they can have an obvious Muslim/Arab slant, they need to be interesting ... and with only Fox for opposition it's entirely possible they can pull it off. Especially since their powers that be aren't part of the US MSM's monoculture.