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tshirt
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They changed the content...

... if you had a contract as a kids channel and then changed to hard core porn would they be obligated to the contract?
I would actually be interested in having this channel for free.
Al Jazeera feeds I've watched on the web. (mostly during middle east crises) have had a (mostly) fairly honest, different viewpoint, no more tilted than middle of the road US news outlets and far better then FOX's blunder prone spew.

does point out the ease of censorship vs economic choices

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The news release just shows more of the same MSM hacks running their new cable channel. They all came from NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, etc. Al Jazeera claims they won't be like MSNBC or Fox with lots of opinion shows, but will stick to straight news. I don't believe that for 1 second.

»apnews.myway.com//articl ··· I80.html

The network has hired many veterans of U.S. television, including John Seigenthaler, Joie Chen, Antonio Mora and Sheila MacVicar, and is promising a meaty diet of news that it believes will contrast with the opinionated talk that dominates American news networks.

Kate O'Brian, the former ABC News executive who is now Al-Jazeera America's president. Ehab Al Shihabi, the network's interim CEO. David Doss, a veteran of ABC, NBC and CNN who is Al-Jazeera America's senior vice president of news programming.

Scheduled shows include a nightly newscast anchored by Seigenthaler, a newsmagazine hosted by Chen, a news talk show with Mora and a business program starring Ali Velshi.

AJA will be available in less than half of American homes at its launch. The Time Warner cable system, for example, dropped Current when the sale was announced. AJA is negotiating with Time Warner and carriers like Cablevision that didn't carry Current in the first place, to get in more homes. Al-Jazeera English network had a substantial following online. But that will end; as a condition of being carried on cable systems, Al-Jazeera will no longer be able to send out a live Internet stream of its programming.

Programming lineup:
The morning and afternoon hours will contain live news.
Evening lineup:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al ··· nt_shows

The big evening show stars:

John Seigenthaler, the ex-MSNBC:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo ··· orman%29

Joie Chen, ex CNN & CBS anchor:
»www.politico.com/blogs/m ··· 998.html

Antonio Mora, ex ABC anchor:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An ··· nio_Mora

Just see the usual MSM hacks here.

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said by AQNN Spokeshole :
...so that AT&T's customers will have access to our unbiased, fact-based and in depth coverage of the news that is important to Americans.
Fact based? No. Unbaised? Braaaaahhhh ha ha ha ha ha.

I get the Al Qaeda News Network fed through KCET and other channels and it is really no different than anti-American vomit appearing in NYT and pro-American vomit of Faux News. It is simple one sided editorializing broadcast under the guise of "hard news".

I will stick to the propaganda from NHK World and CCTV that is completely unimportant to Americans.

tshirt
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It's on Comcast but in some other tier.
not willing to pay more.

FFH5
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said by tshirt:

It's on Comcast but in some other tier.
not willing to pay more.

It is on basic cable on Comcast on ch 107

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This isn't what I want, I want their middle east English language (when possible) feeds. it's that very different viewpoint and more than a couple minute blurb is the information that most US citizens ignore and then feel blindsided when the next conflict explodes.
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It's on Comcast but in some other tier.
not willing to pay more.

It is on basic cable on Comcast on ch 107

not here, 107 is one of the cbs national feeds.
the AJAM site says 125 here which is right, just NOT AUTHORIZED.
current TV used to be free (more than it was worth)

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Oh, so it's going to be the same old bullshit that's broadcasted on American news channels. The same shit that I ignore in the first place because 75% of it is wrong.
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Yeah. Fact based? Unbiased?

If you believe that shit I've got some bottom land to sell you. I just won't tell you what it's at the bottom of.

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"Al Qaeda News Network"

I don't get it. Are you implying that Al Jazeera is run by terrorists?

skeechan
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No, they are excuse making terrorist sympathizers like many in media.

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Fairly honest my foot! Just watch how quick they cut away from this "injured" man

»youtu.be/WeMXe6MB0gE


I wish I could get Uverse, I'd sign up today.
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they will just try to tie it to beIN Sport

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Depends if you believe the network and executives have any influence on the content.

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patriot is another word for terrorist.

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No it isn't.

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Yes, it is. You think the British called American insurgents patriots?

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They certainly didnt call them terrorists, not by any stretch of the imagination. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Patrick Henry...none of them targeted women and school children. They didn't take 14 year old girls and shoot them in the face merely for going to school. They didn't blow up schools and hospitals or call for the wholesale slaughter of innocents or anyone else that didn't agree with them.

They were rebels, they were traitors, they were liars, they were separatists. They were not terrorists, even in the eyes of the Crown. The Battle of Lexington and Concord where disturbances of the public peace.

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In my area it is on the Preferred tier. Same channel number.

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This applies only if you don't count women, Native Americans, Black people, French and Spanish, Catholics, Jews, and generally anyone other than WASP males. And, what do you call wearing street clothes and shooting from ambush at red coated soldiers marching in formation? We revolted not for any grand cosmic idea, but because George III was crazy as an outhouse rat. Our Constitution says: Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. Adams, Washington, and especially Jefferson were certainly the best men of their time, but that was a long time ago. Which, incidentally, is why we have amendments to the Constitution, including the 15th and the 19th. Finally, how is "shooting in the face" fundamentally different from blowing them up in the basement of a Birmingham church? Oh, yes, the "native" Americans are the Native Americans, from whom Latinos are descended.

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". if you had a contract as a kids channel and then changed to hard core porn would they be obligated to the contract?"

Depends on what the contract says.

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The Crown didn't call them terrorists, nor were they, period, end of story. No patriot engages in the wholesale slaughter of innocents and the murder of anyone who disagrees with them.

Have there been American terrorists? Of course. Tim McVeigh. Bill Ayers. Nathaniel Lyon. The Klan. Symbionese Liberation Army. The Jewish Defense League. None of them are patriots, simply murderous thugs.
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How do we know who the terrorists are? Did we find that mass weapons of destruction in Iraq? Nope.
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The crown called them treasonous, traitorous dogs...because that's what they were. English rebels. Traitors, shooting from cover. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

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Engaging enemy combatants is not terrorism. An ambush between standing armies is not terrorism. It is combat just as the Burning of Washington by the British wasn't terrorism.

The difference is clear. Terrorists make no distinction between combatants and non-combatants. Non-combatants are the targets of their activity. I suppose it is a result of our failed public education system that this obvious distinction is not longer obvious to many people. Up is down, down is up.
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That is imperialism, not terrorism. The allies did not purposely attack civilians. Baghdad wasn't Dresden. When there was collateral damage, it was inadvertant save for a few instances that were isolated crimes and prosecuted in military courts as such. Those criminal activities were not government policy.

The attempts to avoid civilian casualties in Iraq is why prosecuting the ill-conceived war took so long. If that were not policy, the war would have been over the first day as we would have easily razed all the cities and towns indiscriminately from the air and operated drones to clean up the rest...not much unlike the film, Oblivion. Even that would not be terrorism but rather genocide.

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You can't see past yourself.
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said by skeechan:

That is imperialism, not terrorism.

now you are arguing about semantics.

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It is semantics to those who don't own a dictionary or never cracked open a history book. To the rest of us there is a profound difference.

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Sorry - skeechan is makeing a well reasoned argument defining terrorism that I am inclined to believe. You appear to have nothing to rebut this, and are resorting to what appears to be an insult of some sort. Does that mean you concede the point, or do you have a more complete definition of terrorism?