It calls itself "news," and some of the people who listen to it therefore expect it to be something other than advertising. CBS and NBC and CNN are all also privately-owned networks. Being a private network doesn't entitle them to pass off advertising as news. As for whether we're taking this way out of proportion, we wrote a one-paragraph item about it and have responded to comments posted by people like yourself. Short of just not mentioning it at all, it would be hard for us to devote LESS attention to it.
I don't currently have cable, but if a local provider offered Al-Jazeera, I would sign up. It's critical that we get more perspectives on the war -- and other issues -- than are available on U.S. news. That's why I watch French satellite TV for the news.
This is not news though..it's advertising and their own private network..and not traditional media.. you guys are taking this way out of proportion and don't see it for what it is..this is not national radio or television..it's an inflight entertainment program, nothing more.
No one should (or could) force you to watch it if you don't want to, but it's a mark of foolishness to call something you haven't seen "anti-American" or "terrorist." The issue isn't whether someone will force you to watch it, but whether you (and everyone else) has the right to have access to it.
As Roger Cohen [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/opinion/12cohen.html?ex=1352523600&en=747b663f06b77db1&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink recently pointed out] in the New York Times,
In the gym at the NATO base in Kabul, U.S. soldiers hit the treadmills every morning and gaze at TV screens broadcasting Al Jazeera’s English news channel. ... America, and not just its front-line soldiers, needs to watch Al Jazeera to understand how the world has changed. Any other course amounts to self-destructive blindness. ...
Counterinsurgency has been called armed social science. To win, you must understand the world you’re in.
Comparative courses in how Al Jazeera, CNN, the BBC and U.S. networks portray the Iraq war and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be taught in all U.S. high schools and colleges. Al Jazeera English should be widely available.
The problem is that we have created too many phony crises. The obesity crisis, the cholestoral crisis, the restless leg syndrome crisis which is so much pharma marketing. People don't know what to believe anymore. I am saddened when I go to Prison Planet because that site does bring attention to the growing dictatorship in this country. Conspiracies do exist as I saw with my own eyes in CA. Jones is in complete denial of global warming though, which makes me lose respect for him. But I know so many people in real life who have been manipulated so many times, they are wary of any more restrictions. People should save their hysteria for things like environmental destruction that do matter and stop harping about lessor issues!
It calls itself "news," and some of the people who listen to it therefore expect it to be something other than advertising. CBS and NBC and CNN are all also privately-owned networks. Being a private network doesn't entitle them to pass off advertising as news. As for whether we're taking this way out of proportion, we wrote a one-paragraph item about it and have responded to comments posted by people like yourself. Short of just not mentioning it at all, it would be hard for us to devote LESS attention to it.
I don't currently have cable, but if a local provider offered Al-Jazeera, I would sign up. It's critical that we get more perspectives on the war -- and other issues -- than are available on U.S. news. That's why I watch French satellite TV for the news.
This is not news though..it's advertising and their own private network..and not traditional media.. you guys are taking this way out of proportion and don't see it for what it is..this is not national radio or television..it's an inflight entertainment program, nothing more.
No one should (or could) force you to watch it if you don't want to, but it's a mark of foolishness to call something you haven't seen "anti-American" or "terrorist." The issue isn't whether someone will force you to watch it, but whether you (and everyone else) has the right to have access to it.
As Roger Cohen [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/opinion/12cohen.html?ex=1352523600&en=747b663f06b77db1&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink recently pointed out] in the New York Times,
The problem is that we have created too many phony crises. The obesity crisis, the cholestoral crisis, the restless leg syndrome crisis which is so much pharma marketing. People don't know what to believe anymore. I am saddened when I go to Prison Planet because that site does bring attention to the growing dictatorship in this country. Conspiracies do exist as I saw with my own eyes in CA. Jones is in complete denial of global warming though, which makes me lose respect for him. But I know so many people in real life who have been manipulated so many times, they are wary of any more restrictions. People should save their hysteria for things like environmental destruction that do matter and stop harping about lessor issues!
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