Lies or bias?

In Skypeland, a cast whose subject was the "Lies on Al Jazeera" attracted a trickle of visitors from the Muslim/Arab world. One young engineer from Canada whose family lives in Baghdad visited to tell us he was positive Al Jazeera was full of lies. I asked how he knew, and he said his family would often witness visit events that were subsequently completely incorrectly reported on Al Jazeera. He has been noticing this for a few years, and now he no longer believes Al Jazeera.

An Iraqi doctor had many examples, including an incorrect report of legislation in the US Congress ordering the split of Iraq into 3 separate countries. An Israeli noted several incorrect reports of rocket firings and terrorist actions. One could even check these reports against youtube videos of the events and see they are wrong.

A man from Egypt came in to state that what he had seen on Al Jazeera about Egypt was wrong and all lies. The Egyptian said that Al Jazeera only shows the negative side of Egypt. The Egyptian said that even though Al Jazeera lied all the time about Egypt, he was positive Al Jazeera did not lie about Israel. Ah, how reasonable... He was directed to a video that showed Al Jazeera was lying in one instance about Israel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH2VGOo3Nos
He said, "I have seen enough videos". He did not want to see anything that might change his mind I guess. Finally when he saw the video, he claimed it was a fake video.

One person who came into the room thought that since the cast had a Western bent, that surely everyone in the room had to be Israeli, or Jewish. However, there were 2 or 3 Muslims in the room, an Iraqi, a Canadian, two Americans, a German, two Jewish people etc.