Actually the german institue for media analysis 'Medien Tenor' has compared the reporting of the Iraq-war between 03/20/2003 and 04/16/2003 on Al-Jazeera with the reporting on the two national (publicly financed) german channels ARD and ZDF. The result was, that the reporting by the german channels was much more naegative than by Al-Jazeera.
No wonder most germans publicly refer to Bush as being worse than Hitler.
I don't trust the media here anymore to have an objective approach.