# Al Jazeera

17 Hacker News commenters recommended Al Jazeera and 13 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for informative regional coverage, varied expert guests and a broad perspective alongside other outlets. Caveat: critics say it is biased, especially on political events and editorials.

## Why people recommend it

- Informative regional coverage, especially the Middle East (3 comments): "Their reporting is fine, and I typically find it more informative than the US news sources." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695378)) "I've found Al Jazeera's (English) coverage of the region to be informative." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693328)) "Al Jazeera has some very good insights into this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258587))
- Useful part of a multi-source news diet (3 comments): "reading them all or reading about the same subjects from these different outlets really gives you a larger political perspective" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060414)) "my main news sources are an amalgam of Reuters, BBC World Service, Al Jazeera English" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237411)) "I do seek out Al-Jazeera too" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446499))

## What people warn about

- Called Qatari state propaganda (7 comments): "a Qatari propaganda site with a well documented history of employing members of terrorist organizations" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47561022)) "a project of the Al Thani royal family whose chief aim is to exacerbate the external conflict" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002369)) "Other outlets repeating it - Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, etc - are all propaganda outlets" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557858))
- Biased coverage, especially on politics (4 comments): "It is biased - interestingly less than expected on this topic because Iran is shelling them" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256168)) "Each one has its own blatant biases and blind spots." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49059864)) "Al Jazeera seems interested in reporting, and their biases are pretty easy to understand and work around." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307947))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Drop Site News](https://hackerapproved.com/p/drop-site-news.md): 8 recommend
- [France24](https://hackerapproved.com/p/france24.md): 7 recommend
- [PBS NewsHour](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pbs-news-hour.md): 6 recommend
- [Breaking Points](https://hackerapproved.com/p/breaking-points.md): 5 recommend
- [RT news site](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rt.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Al Jazeera", https://hackerapproved.com/p/al-jazeera/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).