[mythtv-users] OT: Re: Al Jazeera US (was: Who's going to be the first?)

Dan Wilga mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu
Fri Sep 3 13:13:59 UTC 2010


On 9/2/10 6:37 PM, Dewey Smolka wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Brian Wood<beww at beww.org>  wrote:
> 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.
>    
The college where I work carries it on the campus cable system. Having 
watched a few times while jogging on a treadmill, I agree that its 
standards are much more journalistic than any of the American news 
channels, because they concentrate almost entirely on news, rather than 
opinion or entertainment.

-- 
Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."



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