With Korporate Snooze showing its true role, maybe take a look at Al Jazeera's People and Power

[ConsAreLiars]

series. The current one is on the commodification of stolen babies, There are several in the Corporations on Trial that cover the murderous crimes of the multinationals and the attempts to hold them slightly accountable.

Every half hour spent with those documerntaries will be worth more than 24 hours of CNN and the rest. I'll cut some slack for the three MSNBC hosts who tell some of the truth, but they are still being kneecapped and shackled by the "hot nooze/outrage/flamefest of the day" gossip format that seems to control nearly every so-called news program.

Give it a try, there are worse things to do with that time: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/

[grantcart]

1. Aljazeera English is very good sometimes

Nobody can be excellent all the time, but they remind me of BBC

[Hannah Bell]

2. probably because former bbc people run it.

[ConsAreLiars]

3. I started watching 7 months ago for the obvious reason, but I have been pleasantly

surprised by the the breadth of their coverage of events around the world, but mostly by the great number and quality of the in-depth looks at what is happening outside of the narrow spectrum of DC/WallStreet/TV trivia that our networks cover.

[nosmokes]

4. AJE is one of the best news sources available. I especially appreciate their

policy of hiring local commentators/reporters instead of sending in their own team. That shows a real dedication to the story and not to blow dried and botoxed spokes-models passing themselves off as journos and experts in some place they couldn't have on the map the week before.

[Douglas Carpenter]

5. I really don't think there is any betters 24 hours TV news service than Al Jazeera/English

They are not perfect and they have their biases like everybody else. But I really don't think anyone else is even close to being in the same league of balanced, responsible and informative journalism.

There is certainly an irony that the world's leading western democracy and a country that is at least ostensibly one of the freest countries in the world can only produce brainless tripe when it comes to 24 hours news coverage. While a network originating in a Middle Eastern and somewhat authoritarian monarchy produces the world's most open and honest 24 hour news service.

Al Jazeera/English is not perfect. But all American 24 hour news networks are commercial crap in comparison.

[Karenina]

6. Check out Faultlines and Listening post too!

They are EXCELLENT! K&R!

[ConsAreLiars]

7. Thanks for the tips (and rec)!!

I usually watch live via Livestation ( http://www.livestation.com/) in the evening so I've not heard their full range of programming. I've seen Faultlines a couple of times and it was the sort of deep investigative analysis of how things actually are for people living in the US that would once and a while appear on US TV, but very rarely, and it seemed to be a little clearer and more focused on the "how things work and why" aspect, rather than the "oh look this is sad for Those People" attitude that US media adopts.

I'll have to look into the archives and dig for more.