The Weekly Standard writer, Jonathan Last, was concerned that Al Jazeera was offered as a source of earthquake and tsunami coverage by Google. One of the followup comments to the opinion piece is:
Reader B. M. writes in to say that, in his opinion, Al Jazeera was providing the best coverage of the Japanese earthquake: "Surfing around the net after the quake happened last night I found that Al Jazeera had the best live streaming coverage of the quake, better then the BBC, and certainly better then CNN, who as far as I could tell were only running short video clips that they ran a 30 second commercial in front of. Not to say that Google isn't evil, but I think they got it right in this instance."
All of the US outlets had ignorant newsbabes spouting hour+ old information that had already been corrected and updated. For example, CNN was still babbling about it being 7.9 long after the only debate by the various geological services was 8.8 vs 8.9.
Don’t normally watch ANY of em, but last night I was grabbing every single source that would load. I don’t know how good the Japanese news service was, though, as my Japanese is rather...lacking. They had the most up to date pictures on scene, and Al J had the most information and best translated reporting.
Sorry, but I have to call em like I see em.