As of recent their has been some confusion about A worldwide Global News Source credited with being among the Top WORLD resources (the Associated Press and Reuters are the others) for up to the minute GLOBAL NEWS coverage.....
To put a STOP to such ignorance here is Some FACTS about this News Organization.....based in Qatar... a UNITED STATES ALLY (NOT an enemy)...
Since its start in 1996, Al Jazeera has become one of the most influential broadcast networks in the Arab world. Its all-news and public affairs format reportedly reaches 40 million viewers from its base in the tiny Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar. American networks buy its footage and exclusive video. The broadcaster's uncensored independence, unusual in most of the 22 Arab countries where its signal reaches, quickly found an audience— and controversy. Its shows have also angered Arab governments; Many ARAB countries have jailed Al Jazeera’s reporters or shut its offices because of it's alliance with America.
Being a globally oriented media service,Al Jazeera has adopted the following code of ethics in pursuance of the vision and mission it has set for itself:
1. Adhere to the journalistic values of honesty, courage, fairness, balance, independence, credibility and diversity, giving no priority to commercial or political considerations over professional ones. 2. Endeavour to get to the truth and declare itin our dispatches, programmes and news bulletins unequivocally in a manner which leaves no doubt about its validity and accuracy.
3. Treat our audiences with due respect and address every issue or story with due attention to present a clear, factual and accurate picture while giving full consideration to the feelings of victims of crime, war, persecution and disaster, their relatives and our viewers, and to individual privacy and public decorum. 4. Welcome fair and honest media competition without allowing it to affect adversely our standards of performance so that getting a "scoop" will not become an end in itself. 5. Present diverse points of view and opinions without bias or partiality. 6. Recognise diversity in human societies with all their races, cultures and beliefs and their values and intrinsic individualities in order to present unbiased and faithful reflection of them. 7. Acknowledge a mistake when it occurs, promptly correct it and ensure it does not recur. 8. Observe transparency in dealing with news and news sources while adhering to internationally established practices concerning the rights of these sources. 9. Distinguish between news material, opinion and analysis to avoid the pitfalls of speculation and propaganda.
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Al Jazeera English's Washington DC broadcast centre is the hub for coverage of events in the Americas and Caribbean, operating as the main broadcast centre as news coverage 'follows the sun' around the globe.
In addition to heading-upWashington DC Newshours, presenters also provide opt-outs throughout the day for Newshours anchored in Kuala Lumpur, Doha and London. Presenters based in Washington DC also travel to locations in the Americas and Caribbean to anchor coverage of major news events across the region. WHO ARE THE AL JEZEERA NEWS PRESENTERS ?
Since joining Al Jazeera English, Ghida has interviewed numerous key international figures including Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, Evo Morales, the Bolivian president and Hans Blix, the former head of the UN weapons inspection team in Iraq. Prior to joining Al Jazeera English, Ghida was the New York bureau chief of the pan-Arab daily Al-sharq Al-Awsat. 
Award-winning journalist Kimberly Halkettjoined Al Jazeera English from Global National where she was a correspondent for Canada’s Global Television’s flagship evening news.
As a reporter for the Canadian network, Kimberly covered a range of news stories including the 2004 US presidential election and the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Prior to that, Kimberly lived and worked in Washington DC, as a correspondent for the Fox network programme, America's Most Wanted,travelling throughout the US and Canada and using her investigative reporting skills to put together reports on some of North America's most dangerous felons.
Her determined reporting assisted in putting some of the region's most dangerous criminals behind bars.
From 2002 to 2004, she was lead presenter for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation-Al Hayat joint venture's Evening News.
Before joining CNN in 1997, Anand was the principal evening news anchor for the South African Broadcasting Corporation in Johannesburg. He began his broadcast career in Belgium, where he worked as a field producer for Belgian television as well as a producer and anchor for the Belgian Radio World Service. In those positions, he travelled widely as a producer and reporter in Western Europe, the former Soviet bloc states and the Middle East.
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