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

JWA jwa at macbidouille.com
Thu Sep 2 23:33:54 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 16:25, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> 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.

I've got a HD-PVR.  So no worries if it gets encrypted. ;)


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