ON THE OTHER HAND

Here's an article in the Tehran Times denouncing Al-Jazeera because it is all a Zionist plot to make Islam look bad.

Seems to me, if the Iranians hate you for being a tool of the West, and the Americans hate you for being a tool of the Arabs, you must be doing something right.

Not that Al Jazeera is my favorite tv station or anything (I get my news from the Economist and, of course, Jon Stewart), but I'm glad to see they're pissing people off all over the place. The Arab world seems to desperately need a reality check -- some news reportage that, however slanted, is at least rooted in the world as it actually exists. As opposed to, say, the Tehran Times.