Couple of thoughts- as to not having time to watch a 24 minute video. Isn't that the problem that we progressives have with our conservative foes? For them to get 24 minutes worth of "news" they will get it in 24 one minute bites. So they never really get a better grasp of the real situation. Example- Global warming- one minute bite that they hear 24 times a day is that "there are serious challenges within the scientific community about the reality of global warming" while the rest of us have watched 'An Inconvenient Truth' or viewed hour long Naomi Oreskes interviews. So while we know that there are challenges within the scientific community, we also know that there are conclusions within the scientific community. I enjoyed this video very much and have a better sense of how our economic problems are viewed by non US citizens.
As to AlJazeeraEnglish- I have not watched enough to have an opinion myself, but found this piece by Jonah Lehrer to be interesting. Jonah is one of those cognitive/neuroscientists types that gets to do all sorts of fun experiments about how the brain works. He did some work on cable news and how it tends to make us more dogmatic in our political views. Here is a snippet from his work, and the link to get to it.
http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/see Jan 26 'Cable News'
Cable news takes advantage of this cognitive weakness. Interestingly, however, this latest study found that not every cable news channel reinforced the beliefs of its audience. The big exception? Al-Jazeera English, which reduced the dogmatism of viewers:
The longer participants had been watching AJE, the less dogmatic they were in their thinking...The reduced dogmatism applies only to the cognitive levels of thinking, or the way in which people process new information. People who are less dogmatic in their thought are more open to information that contradicts their worldviews, whereas people who think very dogmatically are more likely to ignore or minimize information that does not support their own beliefs. These levels of dogmatism are strongly related to political and cultural tolerance, and how people behave in confrontational situations.