Posted on 02/12/2010 5:35:27 AM PST by opentalk
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has approved a request to add Al-Jazeera English (AJE) to the list of television satellite services for distribution in Canada. Supporters of the Arab government-funded propaganda channel hope that acceptance in Canada will lead to more cable and satellite carriers in the U.S. picking up the incendiary network.
A group called "Canadians for Al-Jazeera" organized public pressure on the CRTC to approve the entry of AJE into the Canadian media market. Although the group's leader, Walied Khogali, is described in news reports as a Canadian, he identifies himself on his Facebook page as a fan of Barack and Michelle Obama, Students for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. He supports "the Red Movement" that mainly acts to protest Israeli policies and promotes the "I love Allah" T-shirt and the "Bush shoe thrower" from Iraq.
But Philip J. Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau for Public Affairs, criticized Al-Jazeera's coverage of the Haiti relief effort at the State Department press briefing on January 26. "When you're talking about international reporting," he said, "we have had--I've had direct conversations with our friends at Al-Jazeera, for example. And we have spent some time critiquing what we felt was unfair, unbalanced coverage of operations in Haiti." He explained that he had "a conversation" with "officials at [the] Al-Jazeera, English channel" about "inflammatory" coverage suggesting that U.S. relief efforts in Haiti constituted a military plan to take over the country.
More serious and severe criticism has come from Judea Pearl, father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who has called Al-Jazeera "today's greatest recruiter for terrorism." His son's murderer, 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is now in Guantanamo but has been scheduled by the Obama Administration for a civilian trial in the U.S.,
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Two clear-channel 50,000 watt radio stations in Montreal went bankrupt and silent two weeks ago. You don’t suppose...
The USA beat Canada AGAIN.
Not Hockey..
Thursday, 25 June 2009
US BREAKTHROUGH: Al Jazeera has finally secured a deal with a major cable company in the States.
Al Jazeera English will begin its foray into the American market on July 1 after signing its first major US distribution deal with a cable TV company in the Washington DC area, Arabian Business can reveal.
“On July 1 we are going to launch the first operation in cable distribution in the United States,” Al Jazeera’s director general, Wadah Khanfar, said in an interview.
“I can tell you that on July 1 we are going to launch an agreement with a Washington DC based company that has around 2.3 million subscribers.”
Big AM radio is just about dead. Unless they’re doing talk, sports or all news, the writing’s on the wall.
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