Posted on 08/22/2013 4:14:35 AM PDT by lbryce
In a 24-hour cable news world where sensationalist reporting, warring talking-heads and shrinking staff reign supreme, Al Jazeera America is launching an ambitious effort to provide quality, in-depth content on Tuesday.
"There will be less opinion, less yelling and fewer celebrity sightings," the channel's acting chief executive, Ehab al-Shihabi, told reporters on a conference call last week. If the operation fulfills this claim, it will be sitting opposite the popular networks who have made their millions on this formula.
Al Jazeera America will be available to nearly half of the country's 100 million television subscribers on Tuesday afternoon when it overtakes Current TV's distribution network, which it acquired in January for $500m. By taking over the station, Al Jazeera America is susceptible to the risks of having a high-numbered channel far from its competitors grouped together in the lower, more accessible, digits.
American cable companies have been reluctant to include Al Jazeera in their television packages, because of what some commentators call an "anti-American" bias. Marwan Bishara, one of the network's most prominent journalists, voiced fears that the network will sacrifice its bold approach to assuage these criticisms in an extensive email sent to company executives in June.
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Which tent would that be?
Mooshell's skirt? d;^) Schneeks..
Al-J have been advertizing on the local talk radio station, WSB. Neal Boortz’s former home station, their hosts include Herman Cain, Rush, Hannity, and Erick Ericson.
I find it interesting they are going after that audience.
Huh? I fail to understand the intent of your question.
From the dictionary: "The camel's nose is a metaphor for a situation where permitting some small, seemingly inocuous act will open the door for larger, clearly undesirable consequences later."
In old Arab lore, if the camel actually gets his nose into the tent, his entire body will soon follow.
In a 1915 book of fables, the story "The Arab and His Camel" ends with the moral: "It is a wise rule to resist the BEGINNINGS of evil".
The "All That Jazzeera Network" is the camel's nose in the U.S tent.
On the day after the Muslim-initiated horror of 9/11 how many folks would even imagine a foreign Muslim/Sharia Law-controlled network suddenly appearing on the frontroom TV screens of millions of Americans with fanfare equal to the debut of, say, the Disney Network?
Al Jazeera....a network that already on its first day spouts anti-American propaganda to low-information voters.
Gore, Obama and their traitorous ilk are the ones who opened the tent-flap.
Leni
I haven't owned a television in years. Have they removed the option to change channels?
Leni
I think it is not more than 5% of ownership.
How many people would have dreamed the day after 9/11 that in less than ten years we would elect a president who was raised in a muslim country, and whose middle name was Hussein and whose first name was Mohammed’s horse?
It stupefies the mind. Sadly, it confirms for me the old adage, people get the government they deserve. If the majority was foolish enough to fall for this Chicago way corrupt crook, why should we be surprised at what is happening to this country? All they want to know is who is in the latest movie - they don’t seem to care how all their hard won rights - freedom of the individual, freedom of speech, freedom of arms - are under relentless attack.
BTW, hope you are feeling well, Leni.
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