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Why can't people in US watch Al Jazeera?

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Re: Why can't people in US watch Al Jazeera?

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Post by borism »

berntb wrote: post #28

Well, there seems to be much interesting information missed from the US air waves... :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_antisemitism#Yusuf_al... In a sermon, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on January 9, 2009 [...] "Oh Allah, take your enemies, the enemies of Islam. Oh Allah, take the Jews, the treacherous aggressors. Oh Allah, take this profligate, cunning, arrogant band of people. [...] Oh Allah, take this opp…

cause they get their share of antisemitism from Fox: http://mediamatters.org/research/200807020002

Re: Why can't people in US watch Al Jazeera?

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Post by berntb »

borism wrote: post #31
berntb wrote: post #28

Well, there seems to be much interesting information missed from the US air waves... :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_antisemitism#Yusuf_al... In a sermon, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on January 9, 2009 [...] "Oh Allah, take your enemies, the enemies of Islam. Oh Allah, take the Jews, the treacherous aggressors. Oh Allah, take this profligate, cunning, arrogant band of people. [...] Oh Allah, take this opp…

cause they get their share of antisemitism from Fox: http://mediamatters.org/research/200807020002

You defend Al Jazeera's (with other muslim media) airing of antisemitic content -- because Fox News is garbage?

I can't see any other way how criticism of Fox can be relevant to what I wrote. And your argument's logic was worthy of Fox.

Edit: I had a joke (HUMOR PARENTHESIS!) in a comment that "much interesting information was missing". Then I quoted a prayer for genocide of people of another religion from Al Jazeera. I DID NOT A CLAIM THAT THERE IS NO ANTI SEMITISM IN US MEDIA (hardly organized racism at least, it is taboo in the western world). I might also add -- you understood that.

Edit 2: Anyway, it was really funny that you got up voted so much for that -- and I've been down voted in two threads for showing that Al J has extreme racist content...

Re: Why can't people in US watch Al Jazeera?

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Post by borism »

berntb wrote: post #32
borism wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

cause they get their share of antisemitism from Fox: http://mediamatters.org/research/200807020002

You defend Al Jazeera's (with other muslim media) airing of antisemitic content -- because Fox News is garbage? I can't see any other way how criticism of Fox can be relevant to what I wrote. And your argument's logic was worthy of Fox. Edit: I had a joke (HUMOR PARENTHESIS!) in a comment that "much interesting information was missing". Then I quoted a prayer for genocide of people of another religion from Al Jazeera…

where did I sound like I was defending Al Jazeera's antisemitism?

You claimed that US airwaves lack antisemitism and I refuted your claim.

Re: Why can't people in US watch Al Jazeera?

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Post by borism »

yummyfajitas wrote: post #25
nodata wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In all seriousness, they could generate the news on CNN with an algorithm and it would be immensely better than what they pump out now.

CNN isn't generated by an algorithm? I thought they were just scraping twitter.

CNN isn't generated by an algorithm?

it's called Proprietary Relevant News Generating algorithm also abbreviated as PRNG.

Re: Why can't people in US watch Al Jazeera?

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Post by locopati »

getsat wrote: post #19

There is a large subset of the US population that would distrust any information from an Arabic source. BBC, Reuters, and Al Jazeera are amazing compared to CNN/MSNBC/FOX.

One could probably make a case that there's a large subset of the US population that would distrust CNN, MSNBC, and/or Fox.

Re: Why can't people in US watch Al Jazeera?

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Post by gort »

berntb wrote: post #28

Well, there seems to be much interesting information missed from the US air waves... :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_antisemitism#Yusuf_al... In a sermon, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on January 9, 2009 [...] "Oh Allah, take your enemies, the enemies of Islam. Oh Allah, take the Jews, the treacherous aggressors. Oh Allah, take this profligate, cunning, arrogant band of people. [...] Oh Allah, take this opp…

Apparently Wikipedia also carries that content. Down with Wikipedia!

Re: Why can't people in US watch Al Jazeera?

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Post by ahendriksen »

berntb wrote: post #26
getsat wrote: post #19

There is a large subset of the US population that would distrust any information from an Arabic source. BBC, Reuters, and Al Jazeera are amazing compared to CNN/MSNBC/FOX.

>>There is a large subset of the US population that would distrust any information from an Arabic source. There are reasons for that. For example, the state controlled/censored media in the muslim world are infamous for antisemitic hate mongering. (State sanctioned racism... what does that remind you of?) A second problem is that I have no idea about the spin in Al Jazeera (except for their host country). Does anyone…

MEMRI is a Israeli non-profit organisation to "aid the understanding of the Middle-East". It is not by any means objective. Its goal is mostly to find inflammatory or antisemitic fragments in Middle Eastern media and provide them to a Western audience.

I looked at the fragment on the MEMRI site and it was devoid of any context. Airing a speech does not imply endorsement. (Most, if not all, American media outlets have shown Iran's Ahmadinejad tirades against Israel, for example).

tl;dr: Take Israel's PR department with a grain of salt.

Re: Why can't people in US watch Al Jazeera?

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Post by spooneybarger »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #8
spooneybarger wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whenever I try, it barely works and usually crashes. Right now, barely works would be a kind description. The stations I get via cable/sat tv etc don't have scaling problems of this sort. They might have crap coverage and you could argue that is a scaling issue of some sort but.. at least I can manage to watch.

There's an alternate feed available from livestation in both SD and HD editions. http://www.livestation.com/channels/3-al_jazeera_english And a RealPlayer live stream, which (as much as RealPlayer sucks) may be a better choice than Flash. But it's pretty low-def: http://europe.real.com/smil/aljazeera_us_lo.ram

When I went to that earlier today, they had up the 'site overloaded' message.

Now I get 10-15 seconds of video followed by a couple minutes of what I assume is buffering and repeat.

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