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Major Cable Providers Refuse To Carry English-Language Al-Jazeera
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Submitted by Sean Callaghan, Jun 15, 2007 03:26

I have been watching Aljazeera over the last few days - it is such a refreshing look at the world. I switched from CNN the day that Paris Hilton became the main news item on CNN. That day she took precendance over the G8 Summit, Climate Change, Putin's response to the Bush defence shield proposals, Bush's meeting with the Pope, and The Immigration Reform Bills failure in the senate. I'm sure that her story was important (NOT) but to bump global impacting stories for the sake of Paris was simply a bad call on the part of CNN. I have not watched CNN since. I have the advantage of being based out of the US and so can choose to watch Aljazeera. What I have seen is balanced reporting - giving voices to all sides of the middle east debate - and analysis that is intelligent. I am moving to NYC in a few months and really hope that sanity prevails within the minds of the cable providers and that I will be able to get a balanced worldview rather than only one side of the story. Sean

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simply Fox news will be out of buisness if they allow aljazeera english to broadcast in usa. [MORE]

Shaka Zolo 

Nov 29, 2006 21:43

I have been watching Aljazeera over the last few days - it is such a refreshing look at the world....

Sean Callaghan 

Jun 15, 2007 03:26

Especially when you realize that they all belong to one of only six media corporations. After this Al Jazeera censoring... [MORE]

Gina 

Nov 27, 2006 12:39

I think it's disgraceful that in the "land of the free," five years after 9/11--when everyone was asking "Why do... [MORE]

Terence Ridley 

Nov 15, 2006 21:22

NOBODY has censored Al Jazeera. America is a free country and every cable or satellite operator can chose which channels... [MORE]

Tony Malone 

Jan 30, 2008 17:33

The channel should be re-named "Al-Jihadzeera" because it supports terrorists like Hamas, the Plo and Al-Queda. It calls suicide bombers... [MORE]

Daisy 

Nov 15, 2006 17:57

As an American, I am dismayed at the lack of diverse points-of-view we receive through our broadcast and cable/satellite news... [MORE]

Asudo Nimh 

Nov 15, 2006 10:43

Sure it may be propaganda from another country, and is certainly infiltrated with extremists, however, to say that they promote... [MORE]

Leonard Euler III 

Nov 15, 2006 01:24

so much for freedom of press [MORE]

sanju 

Nov 15, 2006 01:01

The only way to address an idea is to find a better one. If A Jazeera produces propaganda, then they... [MORE]

serge gracovetsky 

Nov 15, 2006 17:04

Functioning democracies survive due to constant critical scrutiny. The Iraq invasion was premised on "weapons of mass destruction" that was... [MORE]

To Yoda 

Nov 17, 2006 12:33

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