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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How do you like that? And here I thought 'Al Jazeera' was that guy who came around in his 'Mr. Softee' truck selling ice cream to the kiddies.
And the difference with the MSM is what, exactly?
NOW WITH NEW JIHAD!
Sort of a Muslim NPR I guess.
TC
It provoked me when there were several TV ads run on Fox channels promoting the Al Jazeera news station. If I wanted to find them, I sure as hell don’t want FOX news channels running their ads. Very disappointing FOX was running those ads.
I think that Wahabbi billionaire owns a huge chunk of Fox News as well as Twitter. So Fox really had no choice in the matter to broadcast the ads.
I have no problem with them being on the air. I like seeing different viewpoints. I think that’s healthy.
Can they be any worse than MSNBC? Even Fox has serious issues lately. They are leaning left more and more. I’m also sick of O’Reilly, Hannity, Rove, and most of their other regulars.
We no longer have any national networks that report news. Every single network reports their opinions as news.
Real news: Christianity is evil; individualism is evil; freedom and personal liberty are evil; the West is evil; capitalism is evil; questioning the beheading of infidels is evil.
Got it. No need to watch.
Live beheadings.
Tips on how to keep your wife in line.
How to kill Christians and Jews in the most effective manner.
Child bride updates.
“All here on Al Jazeer’!
Which advertisers will flock to Al Jazeera?
In addition to that, I cannot abide the, for lack of a better word, silliness that they constantly provide on some of their programming.
When they have multiple readers at once, the ad lib one liners and the laughter overwhelms the actual content. Then there is the background noise track they play as the readers are talking.
Other times when they put up counter point situations, it's basically pandemonium. I've never understood why the hosts allow guest to all blabber at once.
Give me BBC any day as far as presentation. I expect Al J is going to ape them. I can supply my own filter.
-——silliness -——
That applies to my favorite, Niel Cavuto.
In America,we have lawyers,attorneys.
In England they have solicitors and barristers.
On Cavuto, every day, he has Breastiters. (many times also Legisters)
just someone tell me how this will be any different than what is already out there
I can’t speak to AJ America, but if it’s like AJ English, they tend to emulate BBC, which, as you pointed out, has very good presentation.
I watch AJ English because it livestreams, and like you, it’s easy to filter. I do hope AJ American will provide solid international news - that seems to be sadly lacking with many American news networks.
Maybe "big oil".
Daily peep show?
Left-wing outlets doing everything they can to promote this garbage.
Well said.
The players deliberately talked over each other for virtually the entire segment and Crowley deliberately let it happen. This is what's passing for news/analysis/punditry on Fox almost every night now. On the Factor, it's the Bloviator himself that overtalks or cuts off his guests' talking points, rendering them irrelevant to his show.
He really should do one hour of commercials for his books interspersed with his own soliloquys to further his goal of becoming irrelevant himself.
As far as All That Jazzera is concerned, answer this question.....what happens when the desert camel gets his nose into the tent?
Leni
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