MSNBC: Al-Jazeera Off the Air For Last Twenty Minutes

1 posted on 04/04/2003 4:17:58 PM PST by Timesink

Peter Arnett taking a break?

2 posted on 04/04/2003 4:18:45 PM PST by OldFriend (without the brave, there would be no land of the free)

3 posted on 04/04/2003 4:20:37 PM PST by JennysCool

4 posted on 04/04/2003 4:24:06 PM PST by BurbankKarl

I haven't seen the Admin Moderator in a while. Perhaps he's off taking target practice.

5 posted on 04/04/2003 4:24:46 PM PST by Redcloak (All work and no FReep makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no FReep make s Jack a dul boy. Allwork an)

6 posted on 04/04/2003 4:25:03 PM PST by aristeides

Maybe their transmitters finally succumbed to all that hot air.

7 posted on 04/04/2003 4:26:12 PM PST by John Jorsett

To: John Jorsett

I'm hoping they succumbed to a good old-fashioned EMP.

8 posted on 04/04/2003 4:28:18 PM PST by Timesink (When was the last time YOU remembered we're on Code Orange?)

Hopefully we targeted their transmitters and all facilities with B-52s.

9 posted on 04/04/2003 4:28:34 PM PST by Joe Boucher

ALL HAIL VIKING KITTIES!!!!!!

10 posted on 04/04/2003 4:29:58 PM PST by cmsgop ( Arby's says no more Horsey Sauce for Scott Ritter !!!!)

Finally a MOAB on that TV Station.

11 posted on 04/04/2003 4:30:17 PM PST by BamaFan69 ((God Bless our Troops & President))

George Mannes
Shoulder Gets Colder for al-Jazeera
By George Mannes
Senior Writer
04/04/2003 06:54 PM EST
URL: http://www.thestreet.com/tech/georgemannes/10078538.html

Al-Jazeera, the Arabic-language satellite television channel that has gotten a chilly reception in the U.S. for its war coverage, is finding that the spring weather gets cooler by the day.

The Qatar-based news operation has long been a sore point with the White House, which has accused it of running coverage that is biased against the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. But now, according to recent news reports, Al-Jazeera is coming under scrutiny from American businesses as well. Two events this week highlight the controversy.

Al-Jazeera, which had used Internet services firm Akamai (AKAM:Nasdaq - news - commentary) to help host its online presence, said Akamai had ceased working with it, according to a report Friday in the The New York Times.

"Akamai worked briefly this week with al-Jazeera to understand the issues they are having distributing their Web sites," an Akamai spokesman told the Times. "We ultimately decided not to continue a customer relationship with al-Jazeera, and we are not going to be providing them our services."

In addition, al-Jazeera told The San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday that both AOL Time Warner's (AOL:NYSE - news - commentary) America Online unit and portal operator Yahoo! (YHOO:Nasdaq - news - commentary) refused to run ads for al-Jazeera's English language Web site, which launched late last month.

An AOL spokesman said that the online service generally does not run advertisements for competitors of its content partners, such as CNN and ABCNews.com.

A Yahoo! spokeswoman said that the company hadn't been able to confirm that any such refusal had taken place at Yahoo!.

But the controversy over the channel has been building. Last week, the New York Stock Exchange confirmed it had revoked al-Jazeera's broadcasting privileges. More recently, members of the administration including Secretary of State Colin Powell took exception with the channel's coverage, contending that al-Jazeera's coverage of the war is consistently biased against the U.S. and its allies regardless of the actual news.

How's that Springsteen song go?

I'm goin' down, down down down,
I'm goin' down, down down down!

12 posted on 04/04/2003 4:30:42 PM PST by Timesink (When was the last time YOU remembered we're on Code Orange?)

"Workin' in a coal mine goin' down down. Workin' in a coal mine, whoo! About to slip down.."

14 posted on 04/04/2003 4:36:16 PM PST by Darksheare (Nox aeternus en pax.)

No, Katie is fixing her make-up.

LOL!

15 posted on 04/04/2003 4:41:28 PM PST by thatdewd

Yo, Viking. Is it true that the final scene of Viking Kitties was shot in Seattle arboretum? Or at least uses it for backdrop? I lost my link, do you have one?

As for alJejerkra, who would miss them? I'd rather watch the cat psychic, whose news is much more accurate.

16 posted on 04/04/2003 4:48:00 PM PST by PoisedWoman (Fed up with the liberal media)

I can't wait until we control Iraqi TV. The arab world needs to learn some truth for a change.

17 posted on 04/04/2003 4:53:12 PM PST by Dog Gone

18 posted on 04/04/2003 4:57:36 PM PST by Maedhros (He hate me.)

No "good" news to report, maybe?

19 posted on 04/04/2003 5:10:33 PM PST by LurkedLongEnough (Five day forecast for Baghdad: 2 days)

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