al-Jazeera hires ex-Marine

al-Jazeera has hired an ex-Marine public affairs officer as an American correspondent. [Article link]

I am somewhat doubting the Arab news agency's reasonings for hiring him. If it's supposed to give them more insight into American thinking and politics, then hopefully they're not going to take his words and actions and skew them into something that's hateful. Hopefully, they're going to be properly featuring him and showing the American side of the story on a fair footing. The Marine seems honest enough as a loyal American. If al-Jazeera can be taken at face value (and I hope they can), that part of the world will finally be able to see things from another angle and not have it horribly skewed by propaganda.

General comment about all news media: they're all propaganda sheets, whether it's from a government or from money-hungry, rumor-mongering reporters looking to get their name under the next big headline. The only way anyone can determine the truth is to research the