Posted on 10/21/2013 7:56:30 AM PDT by RetiredArmy
On the other hand, TIME and Newsweak are probably a bit more sympathetic to islam than Al Jazeera.
AJ may look good now, but they will skew the news just like the rest of the MSM.
Cable companies infuriate me, the way they design packages. I would have to pay more for National Geographic Explorer, but I can get this crap and 100 shopping and reality TV channels in my basic package at no additional charge.
Americans are extremely susceptible to TV based propaganda as demonstrated by the past several decades. Al Gorezeera will shape their minds now. One may as well select their Muslim names now before all the good ones are taken. I’ll go with Mohammed bin Muhammed al-Mohammed.
Yes, Al Jazeera is owned by the enemy. But so, apparently, are almost all the other news outlets.
Same with DirecTV. But as I understand it, DirecTV in their contracts with the owners of the various channels, has to take like 8 lousy channels that no one watches just to get the two or three they really want. Thus, they also have to put them in the prime packages as part of the contract to give those channels more exposure. That is what it said on a “crawler” on several of my channels back when DirecTV and the cable channel owners were fighting over a new contract. But, I just use that favorites channel selector and pick only those channels I want and then that is the only channels that appear when I pull up the guide to select a channel. Al J is a new channel that appeared and I immediately deleted it off my guide. When new channels come on line they automatically appear on your fav guide to let you know. But this one I canned without even checking it out. I KNEW what it was. I was still on AD back during Gulf War 1 and I remember their crap very well.
I’ve long since cut my tv feeds, both sat providers here have siignificant arab and communist control.
Standard programming used to be film , national geographic, history channel and the like with no marketing, now its pure crap. And you never get a whole movie without 4 hours of blended political propaganda and stupid sales routines.
They were bashing conservatives within 5 minutes, they will be accepted by the leftist MSM
One may as well select their Muslim names now before all the good ones are taken. I’ll go with Mohammed bin Muhammed al-Mohammed.
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Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi.
Many here would recognize him better as Alexander Siddiq, Dr. Bashir from “Star Trek: Deep Space 9”.
To paraphrase another fictional character, “We’re gonna need a bigger business card.”
Losers hiring losers. They were fired for a reason.
I’ll take Mohammed Gounar al-Eunabraw
Oh, really now! What makes them right-of-center? Because they acknowledge that a conservative viewpoint actually exists? Or because they actually make an attempt at balance?
I think I would actually be better off with just FR for news, ESPN.com for football, and Netflix for all other “watching.” I mean, I’m paying for channels I don’t watch, don’t want, and can’t understand, from a cable company with terrorist ties.
What’s not to like about no TV?
Here at the farm we’ve watched Al Jazeera for years. They’re no more warped than CNN,MSNBC, ABC-— (take your pick) or Deutsche Welle, CCTV9 ( Chicom TV). Even tho you know they have an axe to grind they pick up domestic stories that others don’t, frequently give more detailed video of events. It’s all part of staying in touch with the rest of the world and not depending on one ingrowndumbass to feed you info.
The “domestic stories” Al Jazeera picks for American tv are known as “come-ons”. They serve as a kind of bait for the gullible in that they lure people in with relatively straight reporting (and often tear-jerk results).
Then people let their antennae down and continue to assume that other stories are just as straight and balanced as the “human interest” ones.
Therein lies their plan. Put out the crumbs for Hansel and Gretel to follow, and lure them into the woods and then the house, where they will be lost and then rescued by Al Jazeera’s charms and propaganda.
An old communist tactic which the Moslems have appropriated with get skill and lots of money.
I work for DTV and this is precisely the case. We are not content creators, we are content PROVIDERS. Our influence over WHAT is sent over the wire is next to zilch. If someone complains about their kid seeing what would accurately be called porn 30 years ago on a ‘regular’ channel, literally the best we can do is tell them about parental lockouts. Not to mention the repeats. Yes, we know about them, there was even a drinking game created over them. No, we can’t do jack, salesman talking points notwithstanding. No, Cox or Time-Warner aren’t any better, so save yourself a headache.
Corporate and our lawyers are in a constant battle just to keep the creators and broadcasters from pulling a fast one and then making us come hat in hand to fix the gaps in our channel lineup in some or all markets while our customers call in breathing fire. And Lord help us all when it’s time for our various packages to be re-negotiated. The squabbling over who gets into what packages and at what price is enough to drive a man to drink.
You had better believe the situation drives us agents looney. We know we have to bundle crap and it drives us as nuts as it does our customers. The reason we can’t let people buy channels like a salad bar is because so people would have a dozen channels in their package and we couldn’t make a profit.
I patently refuse to push crap like AJ or the porn channels even with the juicy incentives for the latter. If someone ASKS about them, obviously I’m required to sell it and I have done so. But as both a good citizen and a Christian I won’t advertise them...and as I was recently in the top 10 agents on the entire site, I think my stand is being rewarded quite well.
BTW, Pac-12 has refused to be either a la carte or pay-per-day like everyone else from the NFL to the NBA to the NHL. Apparently THEY are just too special. Please harangue them for their bull-headedness if you get a chance.
I’ve been a reader of AJ’s online English news for a few years. I imagine the downsides of Al Jazeera are well know here, but to touch on the upsides. As long as the story doesn’t involve the USA or Israel, it’s a great place for news on Africa and the Middle East and often covers stuff you never hear about from a US based media outlet.
Do they bother to report the stories of their murdering thug religion of murder, rape and bombing killing Christian men, women and children by nailing up the doors of their churches and burning them to death????? Are THOSE stories posted there? I doubt it. NOT in a context that the murdering thugs of Islam did the murdering to kill Christians. They would have to put some other type of deal on the article to make it look like outlaws of some type did it, or a tribal thing. But not the murdering thugs of Islam killing Christians.
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