[mythtv-users] Who's going to be the first?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Thu Sep 2 23:25:47 UTC 2010


On Thursday, September 02, 2010 05:19:56 pm Greg Oliver wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:11 PM, JWA <jwa at macbidouille.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 15:54, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> >> On Thursday, September 02, 2010 04:37:27 pm Dewey Smolka wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>  I found France 24, I get it with SPB TV on my Blackberry. I suspect
> >>> anyone watching Al Jazeera in the US winds on on some
> >>> 
> >>> > government list of "persons of interest". I'll look into RT.
> >>> 
> >>> Way OT, but I guy I went to school with helped Al Jazeera set up their
> >>> DC bureau a few years back. They've actually got quite a high standard
> >>> of journalistic integrity -- most of the English-language staff came
> >>> from the BBC, and they seem to base their editorial and style guides
> >>> on the World Service.
> >>> 
> >>> Yes, even mentioning Al Jazeera is enough to raise eyebrows (or worse)
> >>> in the US, but they're a far more responsible news organization than
> >>> Fox, or even CNN. It's a real shame that no cable/sat carrier that I'm
> >>> aware of will carry them in the US.
> >> 
> >> I have heard the same, Al Jazeera is a responsible news organization,
> >> that has not fallen into the "infotainment" trap. My friends at CNN
> >> despair at what has happened to that network, but as they say, they
> >> have to eat.
> >> 
> >> Of course the US wants even people in the middle-east to watch the
> >> puppet network El-Arabia, or the Arab News Network, both of which are
> >> pretty much worthless as far as "news".
> >> 
> >> It's a sad state of affairs when I have to worry more about my own
> >> government monitoring me than I do about being attacked from the
> >> outside, but I am certain that routinely watching Al Jazeera would not
> >> be good for me. Even if it's not true (though I believe it is), just
> >> the fact that I have to be concerned about it is disappointing to say
> >> the least.
> > 
> > You can get Al Jazeera and RT with a Free-to-Air satellite system
> > (they are on Galaxy 19).  So nobody would be able to know that you're
> > tuning in.  I've been tempted to get a FTA satellite system for the
> > international news stations, but since they are available online and
> > my cable provider (TimeWarner) at least provides RT (in ClearQAM), I
> > haven't bothered.
> 
> You just made the list  :)


If your clear QAM signal gets encrypted in the next week or two, we will all know to be more careful what we say here :-)

A lot of people, sadly including many in the government, simply can't get over the "Russia is the Enemy" mode of thinking.



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