Comments on news posted 2013-08-21 12:29:09: Al Jazeera this week launched their Al Jazeera America channel in the United States, promising to offer more hard hitting journalism than Fox News and CNN viewers have grown accostomed to (the Washington Post insists they're "mostly" succeeding). ..
... 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
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.
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.
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.
There is no such thing as an unbiased news channel that has accurate, factual, timely information. Because we all know, "sensationalism, scandal and sex" sell.
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.
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)
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.
I watched AJA for about an hour last night - except for a few handoff issues (now we switch to our correspondent in Washington), it was glitch free.
It was also *far* less opinionated and slanted than Fox News is. In the reports that I watched (which were mostly business reporting, and a little politics) they played it straight as an arrow. Not the snideness that Fox News is known for.
Now, I didn't see any middle east reporting, so I can't comment on if they would be objective about Israel/Egypt/Syria and all that.
It was also *far* less opinionated and slanted than Fox News is. In the reports that I watched (which were mostly business reporting, and a little politics) they played it straight as an arrow. Not the snideness that Fox News is known for.
Al Jazeera has bias in a totally different way than the MSM in the US. NO ADS
They have advertising. Just not very many yet because most advertisers don't want to be associated with their channel and owners. »www.bbc.co.uk/news/busin ··· 23766274
Al Jazeera America said that they will give less airtime than other US networks to advertising, typically carrying six minutes of adverts each hour, less than the industry average of 15 minutes
I watched AJA for about an hour last night...Now, I didn't see any middle east reporting, so I can't comment on if they would be objective about Israel/Egypt/Syria and all that.
Well, I guess that settles it. There's nothing worth mentioning happening in the Middle East... After an hour of you watching.
Isn't this the SAME Al Jazeera that become popular by broadcasting the beheadings and torturing of Americans? Yeh......I'll be watching this channel. NOT!!!!
I could care less if their content has changed, or ownership, or whatever. These clowns are the propaganda machine for terrorists much like CNN and MSNBC are the propaganda machines of the Democratic Party.....
It's obvious that there are some strong viewpoints, both for and against this channel. I seriously doubt we're going to reach any kind of agreement here today.
So here's my suggestion. Let's just have the channel available and let everyone make up their own minds. And before someone says they don't want their cable fees going to support AJA, well, there are also people who don't want their fees going to Fox News, MSNBC, ESPN, MTV, etc. Yet they do, and this situation is no different. If and when a-la-carte comes along, we can all dump the channels we don't want and pay for those we do want. Until then, well, everyone's ox gets gored a little.
