fox news v.s. aljazeera

i'm sure all of you remember at least hearing something about the recent Israeli invasion of the Gaza strip a few months ago. it was heavily covered in endless news reports for a few weeks as the story unfolded. well, i was interested in finding out more because at the time i didn't have much knowledge about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to begin with. a long time friend of mine happens to be from Iran and so i began to ask what he thought about the issue. not to my surprise, what he had to say wasn't being aired on any of the channels i had seen. i immediately assumed that he was a bit biased as were the news channels i had seen. when i asked him where he was getting his information he told me aljazeera, a news forum that his parents regularly subscribe to. so we went on an information hunt. it just so happened that the Israeli's were not allowing any press into gaza during the conflict; however, the aljazeera reporters were already there and filming so they had the scoop. we went on their website and began to watch videos covering the story. it amazed me how opposite their story was from our news networks. their take was that the Israeli's had been pushing the former Palestinians into the gaza strip like cattle for months and then proceeded to blockade the area from all deliveries, essentially drying up all the food and water resources for Gaza's inhabitants. they showed endless footage of injured and deceased Palestinians, men women and children alike. they had personal accounts of the Israeli's willingly killing innocent people during a search for their target, the leaders of hamas. they explained that the Israeli's had cut the power to hospitals and specifically bombed houses which had been pre-screened to find only innocent families boarded up in hiding. the way aljazeera showed it, the Israeli's formed the blockade to entice hamas to fight back and then used the "few homemade rockets" which hamas had sent over the blockade (injuring no civilian israeli's) as an excuse to enter Gaza and begin a sort of genocide. as you may assume i was startled, it was as if i was hearing about a completely different event, and aljazeera was certainly biased; however, they had enough video footage to prove most of what they were saying. after seeing this i went to fox news's website to hear their story and found a fox news anchor on video conference call with an English speaking Palestinian woman from Gaza, she seemed to have a considerable amount of education and was familiar with the american side of the story. as she was explaining exactly what aljazeera had reported, the news anchor began to get frazzled and instead of letting her finish, or attempting to learn more, he simply spoke over her on numerous occasions, insulting her intelligence and credibility. he even went as far as to accuse her of not knowing her own country and then had her line disconnected and continued to apologise for her ludicrous remarks after she was gone. it was astounding to see, especially when the aljazeera network was the only network present during the conflict, for the fox news anchor to act like that against a credible opposing viewpoint left me at a loss for words. i implore anyone interested to look at the two networks websites and watch the Gaza excerpts for themselves.