stephen reminds us to read al jazeera, which has had amazing effects. i wonder what al jazeera wants. but yes it is legit, and has been very worth looking at especially for coverage of iraq, afghanistan. and also to get a more real vibe of what's happening now. it has its limitations. but it has really done what, say, jefferson envisioned for a free press. and yet i remember donald rumsfeld, for example, saying it was a "mouthpiece for al qaeda." the gaps between what we say and what we believe and between what we believe and what we do, are voids into which we keep tumbling. if you were on the streets of egypt, contemplating $1.5 billion dollars a year in american aid, much of it military, the charge of hypocrisy wouldn't even need to be made. a slight roll of the eyes would be plenty. check the live video stream too.