U.S. vs. World media coverage

News coverage of the war has been awful. Al Jazera tells the Arab world what they want to hear (blood, guts and bleeding civilians) and the U.S. media gives us a Hollywood images of clinical bombs without blood like its a Bruce Willis movie adapted for TV and scripted by the Pentagon to reinforce the message that precision weapons make war clean.

The Lehrer Report provides good reasonably objective and thoughtful analysis and C-span occasionally carries other country's coverage, but has anybody found objective media coverage with critical analysis that is worth the time.

I spend very little time in front of the tube and don't have time to do the channel surfing to find decent coverage. Any recommendations out there? P. Arnett and Geraldo asside, the signal to noise ratio of U.S. media coverage is abysmal.

Can't say much for Telly News.

Online, I like "antiwar.com"...although it's a libertarian anti-war group, their main page is a list of links to global newspaper sites (many Brit like the Independent of Guardian) and articles in mainstream US papers that are overlooked. Of course a lot of the stories are posted to build the anti-war veiw, but every day I find an article that sheds light on what is actually happening on the ground, and that's a service.

BBC seems as balanced as any I've been able to find. But really finding objectivity in times of war is almost a futile exercise. I don't watch the TV news.

I think we all need to see dead children some times to understand what war is about.
OK, so the war is not all about dead children, but why leave out that particular piece of the puzzle? I mean, all the other aspects of this war are reported in detail (US casualties included), so why not report civilian casualties in detail too?

BBC is a decent source in my opinion.

Erlend