Thoughts on Live TV - Al Jazeera

While it is no secret that the internet is a gateway to the world outside of your own, I have never truly realized the mass amount of information you can access through it - I have never truly taken advantage of it!
These websites, which diplay live news about other countries (as well as our own), opened my eyes to things in the world that I rarely hear about, but are extremely real and apparent in others lives.
Yet, while I think these websites are very infomative and useful, I do feel that a few of them are somewhat biased (mostly the ones that are focused on a single country) as they seem to have underlying "policy reinforcement" embedded within their articles, etc. I feel that, while it is important to stay informed, one must interpret everything very carefully in order to keep from being incorrectly influenced by outside informational sources.
Utimately, I feel that Al Jazeera will become very effective through use of the internet - yet, they might need some better advertising/marketing tactics. The internet is quickly becoming the most influential too in most individual's lives, and it seems that without it, once can (almost) not function successfully in society. It's nice to be able to have all options and necessities at your disposal as you log onto the "world wide web" - including global news coming to you live!
It seems to me that Al Jazeera would be very useful if it broadcast in the U.S. - and also very controversial. Much of the news I read about on the website is little but seen on nightly news stations broadcast in America. It seems the issue at hand is political; do Americans need to REALLY know what's happening around the world, or would they rather stay happily in denial and confortable? I would venture to say many prefer the second.
Al Jazeera's news seems to be (I would like to think) uncensored and to the point. American's news is filtered to fit our society's needs and likings. This needs to change.
After reading Al Jazeera's Code of Ethics, it looks as if they are respondible in holding themselves to much of what they declare. Not only do they "print diverse points of view without bias or partiality," but seem to do so with with the journalistic values of "honesty, courage, fairness, balance, independence, credibility and diversity, giving no priority to commercial or political considerations over professional ones." While I have not had the chance to dig deep into all the material presented on the website, it seems that they adhere to their mission most genuinely, as I see many countries opinions are represented in an open and professionally honest fashion.