Posted on 04/02/2011 11:45:49 PM PDT by neverdem
Every morning at 7am Ahmed Najib presses the numbers 514 on his TV remote control and Al-Jazeera's swirling golden, flame-shaped Arabic logo appears in the corner of the screen of his ancient Toshiba TV. The 24-hour news channel stays on all day. He and the customers who visit the clothes shop he runs just off Goldhawk Road, west London, could watch the BBC, Sky or ITN, but they prefer to get their news from a bit further away - the tiny Gulf state of Qatar.
Men like Najib, who was born in Cairo but now lives in London, and Arab-speaking people all over the world have been watching Al-Jazeera ever since it launched its Arabic-language channel in 1996 (the English-language channel followed in 2006), but that was about as far as it spread. To most English speakers in the West, Al-Jazeera was different, distant and - ever since it became the main outlet for grainy video messages from Osama Bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks on New York - downright dangerous. The only time many of us can remember seeing the Al-Jazeera logo and hearing its name is when watching Bin Laden's rants. Small wonder the network has been dubbed "the Bin Laden Broadcasting Corporation" or simply "Terror TV".
But that's changing. As revolution spreads across the Arab world, viewers everywhere are tuning in - and many say they like what they see. In the US, where, unlike Britain, no large cable or satellite operator carries Al-Jazeera's English-language channel, the number of viewers watching over the internet has increased by 2,500% since the Arab uprisings began; America's most influential website, the Drudge Report, screens it live. Consumers are petitioning US cable channels to sign up the service, and...
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One American who does have a live feed is President Obama...
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Uh.. I’ll go for scarier Alex for $1000!
Al-Jazeera is BBC World, and CNNI is the homosexual wing of BBC World.
All three are run from the same interest, the London Far Left.
BBC World is meant for the emotional representative of Britain, so it is presented with as much British professionalism/shine as the Left can achieve. Something they think they can be proud of even though in actuality it is a load of crap.
Then the Homosexual crowd from the scene are splintered off to their own CNNI.
And finally you have those who are sent to produce Al-Jazeera in order to better satiate their Arabist views.
The three represent the London far left as a whole but you can't have national identity (BBC World), homosexuals (CNNI) and Arabists (Al-Jazeera) successfully mixing their image on TV, so they are neatly separated and presented as independent. But they are all most definitely the same London leftists.
I thought Al was new jazz pianist ...
The interesting thing about Al-J is when events overtake them, like Egypt, they put out a lot of unfiltered news, almost unintentionally. Of course they would wheel in a scarfhead trained by leftist gobshites asap, but there was a much better portrait of what was going on than anything filtered by CNNi or BBC World.
” America’s most influential website, the Drudge Report,”
It is?
Speaking of jazz pianists, I took the wife to see Harry Connick Jr. last night for our anniversary. He put on a great show.
When I was in NYC in Feb my daughter’s neighbor, whose husband’s father was a well known news guy, told me she was watching all the Egyptian news on AJ. She was so excited about it, especially since the Muslim brotherhood was involved. I nearly vomited in the lobby. So to keep things even I told her I was a Tea Partier, she and her husband both looked as though they were seeing an alien.
NY liberals are scary people indeed.
I getting Al jazeera English news on KCET Los Angeles ever since KCET lost its PBS membership I got hook on it
It good network I don’t know about Arabic version
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