I think you're very naive if you think that the news anywhere is unbiased, least of all Arabic news. Just because it's different than what we get here, doesn't mean that it's the unbiased truth.
I used to work in the Aramco building here in Houston.
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Saudi Aramco (Arabic: أرامكو السعودية ) is the state-owned national oil company of Saudi Arabia. It is the largest oil corporation in the world with the largest proven crude oil reserves and production.
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The building had a high speed internet connection and a high speed point to point connection to the Aramco compound in Saudi. The one of the reasons was to provide uncensored Internet access to the folks that lived in the compound in SA because the Internet access in SA is heavily censored.
BBC News - Saudi Arabia country profile
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Saudi Arabia, though a pioneer of pan-Arab satellite television, has long had one of the most tightly-controlled media environments in the Middle East.
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Granted, farther down in the link above, it says that things have become more relaxed as far as control. I'd be AMAZED if any Muslim country wasn't heavily censored.
Hell, if you went back to the US during the 30s, 40s and 50s (and probably 60s and 70s), folks probably thought the news was good and unbiased, but we all know that's a load of crap. The government was able to exert control over the media and did during wars and such to ensure that the public was more supportive.
I'd say that today, the news is much more "free" than it's ever been. It's also probably not any more biased, but in the past, the bias was hidden more effectively. As the WWE, NASCAR, Reality show mentality dominates more and more, it bleeds into the rest of society more and more, including the news.