The foreign minister's first choice for international news is Al-Jazeera in English
The preferred choice of evening news for Per Stig Møller, the foreign minister, is the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera, which he feels provides the most thorough and impartial international news coverage.
In addition to making the English language Al-Jazeera channel a part of his home satellite TV package, he has instructed the foreign ministry to react to the channel's coverage the same way it does to CNN and the BBC.
'I watch Al-Jazeera's news programme every day at 6:03 p.m. if I have the time,' he told Jyllands-Posten newspaper. 'They are fairly neutral and provide a lot of international news that we otherwise wouldn't hear. They're better than Denmark's DR and TV2 and also better than CNN and BBC.'
Møller believes that Al-Jazeera is especially good in its coverage of the Middle East, Africa and South-east Asia.
'Some people may well think what happens in the Solomon Islands, for example, is unimportant, but it isn't for the people who live there. On Al-Jazeera I get news, see footage and hear new angles on many issues that I otherwise would rarely or never hear on other channels.'
Al-Jazeera was launched in 1996 by the Emir of Qatar as a satellite station and quickly became popular amongst the Arabic population as the only internal news source not controlled or censored by the region's governments.
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