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Al Jazeera in Talks With Comcast, Time Warner
Fast Company ^ | 3/2/11 | NEAL UNGERLEIDER

Posted on 03/02/2011 12:50:04 PM PST by jimbo123

Al Jazeera English may be coming to American television screens. The Qatar-based network is currently in talks with cable giants Comcast and Time Warner, creating a groundswell of enthusiasm among American news junkies and a collective groan from right-leaning conservative activists.

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Beheadings, stonings, gang rapes and rage against the infidels, coming soon to your cable tv system.
1 posted on 03/02/2011 12:50:05 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

I’m pretty sure we already have it in Central Florida on Comcast.


2 posted on 03/02/2011 12:51:52 PM PST by Elkiejg (Democrats/Liberals/progressives are EVIL!!)
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...creating a groundswell of enthusiasm among American news junkies...

Oh really? I'm somewhat of a news junkie. I am not enthusiastic.

3 posted on 03/02/2011 12:54:19 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Here's the proof of Obama's U. S. citizenship: " " Good enough for our 3 branches...)
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jimbo,
I’m as right wing as it comes BUT
check out Al Jazeera a few times for two reasons.
They do NOT present news the way abc nbc c bs do, and that CAN be a good thing.
Also it is good to see your enemy and what it is.
Guarantee you they are watching your news presentation.


4 posted on 03/02/2011 12:54:29 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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Why would the right leaning conservatives groan? We have been told by the left how “peaceful” Islam is. Now they won’t be able to hide the “peacefulness”.

This will be a huge wake up call for the middle of the road ambivalent center left democrat and squishy rino. If this is uncensored Al Jazeera, Americans will be appalled.


5 posted on 03/02/2011 12:54:46 PM PST by HappyWarrior2012
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I don't get it. Wouldn't MILLIONS of subscribers become angry and offended, and immediately drop the service in favor of a company with higher values and standards? (Assuming such companies exist)

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6 posted on 03/02/2011 12:57:23 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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The real question is weather or not they'll beat CNN and MSNBC's ratings.

I'm think’n, yeah, they will.

7 posted on 03/02/2011 1:02:20 PM PST by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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All information is good information.

Availability of repugnant concept and thought may offend personal sensibility's, but such also permits the ability of those interested in specifics to inform ones self as to where others perception of them lie.

It is good to force read the perspective of ones opponent.

The only mechanism for this is availability of free flowing information.

8 posted on 03/02/2011 1:05:48 PM PST by mmercier (the brave new world)
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If MTV didn’t get them to leave, Al Jazeera ain’t gunna’ do it.

We’re still waiting for ala carte cable. Been 25 years and still waiting.

Netflix is a good substitute.


9 posted on 03/02/2011 1:12:45 PM PST by super7man
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Actually I can’t help but smile at your thought process here.

This is a nation that was exposed to quite a bit of information, and the majority of it’s voting citizens still concluded Barack Obama would make a great president.

So now you’re betting that they’ll see anti-Christian pro Islam coverage and conclude that the Western model is better than the Islamic model.

Can’t say you don’t express quite a bit of faith here. Can’t say as it’s reasoned either.


10 posted on 03/02/2011 1:16:31 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Here's the proof of Obama's U. S. citizenship: " " Good enough for our 3 branches...)
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I think their news as as good and in many cases better than the alphabet media we have now.


11 posted on 03/02/2011 1:16:48 PM PST by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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I would never watch it, but here’s why I’m against it. It will be in a “package” with other channels. If you want your favorite channels, you have to buy a “package” which has the beheadings, stonings, yelling “death to America” channel.

So you will be subsidizing the “death to infidels” channel. Nice redistribution of the wealth, eh?

I hope I’m wrong, but I doubt it.


12 posted on 03/02/2011 1:20:47 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Liberalism is against human nature. Practicing liberalism is detrimental to your mental stability.)
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Don’t have cable.


13 posted on 03/02/2011 1:23:23 PM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|http://pure-gas.org|Must be a day for changing taglines)
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Any cable news network that does not go wall to wall with Natalee Holloway for two years would be good.


14 posted on 03/02/2011 1:28:52 PM PST by trumandogz
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To: Elkiejg

I saw Al Jazeera on a local comcast educational access channel not too long ago.


15 posted on 03/02/2011 1:31:31 PM PST by lonevoice (Where the Welfare State is on the march, the Police State is not far behind)
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Any cable news network that does not go wall to wall with Natalee Holloway for two years would be good.

You must be talking about the Human Lost Network (HLN)

16 posted on 03/02/2011 1:33:38 PM PST by moovova (Don't let Obama spoil the word "hope" for you...)
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The only hope we have is the possibility of individual understanding through information.

I smile back at you, understanding how information can be manipulated on mass scale, with disasterous result.

Retarding population through deprivation of information is today no longer possible. People crapp a collective pantload when the truth later comes out on a frikin twitt... Ask the Queefer how that open cell phone thing is working out for him today.

If you can show me how to put the toothpaste back into the tube, then I will relent my position, which I admit up front, may be askew of a reality.

17 posted on 03/02/2011 1:36:10 PM PST by mmercier
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Compared to CNN and MSNBC, Al Jazeera would be a breath of fresh air. All the lies, bias and propaganda we’re used to but without the pretense and ostentatious b.s.


18 posted on 03/02/2011 1:56:05 PM PST by Spok
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Compared to CNN and MSNBC, Al Jazeera would be a breath of fresh air. All the lies, bias and propaganda we’re used to but without the pretense and ostentatious b.s.

Actually, from my experience watching some of their live feed from Lybia on the internet, you are correct.

19 posted on 03/02/2011 2:13:36 PM PST by Prokopton
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To: jimbo123

They should also talk to DirecTV, who is pretty much on their side anyway: My Parental Controls setup forces me to enter the unlock code for FNC, but not CNN or MSNBC. Gee, I wonder why?


20 posted on 03/02/2011 2:32:11 PM PST by jeffc (Prayer. It's freedom of speech.)
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