Posted on 09/09/2013 7:41:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Two weeks ago, Al Jazeera America launched, beaming into 48 million homes across the country. The media company that allowed Osama bin Laden to use it as a vehicle to communicate with jihadists around the world is now on your TV screen and you are paying for it. The network pushed its way onto basic cable packages with several providers. If you subscribe to Verizon, Comcast, Dish Network or DirecTV, you are forced to subsidize Al Jazeera's propaganda as part of your cable bill whether you like it or not. I represent a district about 70 miles north of where the Twin Towers once stood. Thousands of my constituents commute to Manhattan every day. People from this area perished in the savage attacks of September 11, 2001.
Serviceman from our community made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting to prevent another attack. Four Marines I served with left everything they had on the battlefields of Iraq. When constituents contacted my office to express outrage that Al Jazeera America is now part of their basic cable package, I took it very seriously.
We should not have to fund Al Jazeera through our cable bills. Americans do not want to pay for their vile propaganda. I'm launching a petition drive calling on cable companies to drop Al Jazeera from their basic cable packages.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
No worse than MSNBC.
Verizon’s basic cable gives you CNN *AND* MSNBC but NOT Fox News.
Go figure...
Comcast, Verizon, etc., customers are also forced to pay for MTV, Glee, and all other sorts of offensive content.
Forced is maybe too strong a word...as those customers could terminate their contracts if they were too overly offended.
They will not be renewed IMO.
Same in Norway, if you’re on any cable/dish.
Also, you’re paying for Hezbollah.
From what I see they are spending far more in a vain attempt to promote it than they are ever going to gain in viewership. Current likely had more.
Although I need their internet service, I cancelled comcast cable. We strictly use APPLE TV - we buy what we want, no commercials, and we can monitor the TV.
I agree. We are also being forced to pay for the homosexual channel, the green channel, and all the smut channels like MTV.
The one thing McCain has done right is to introduce a bill that would give consumers channel choice. However, the companies that profit from cable TV, etc. have too much clout for this to go anywhere.
Roku. PlayOn. FU MSM.
I would imagine that the PBS station paid AJ to do so.
All those Spanish channels are not helping me a bit.
I watched Al Jazeera when it was on Roku. It was the only live news show we could get. Doubt that you will believe it, but it was very good. There was so much more coverage of world news than we ever see on our so-called news networks. Even Fox is terrible lately. They subsitute human interest stories for real news or they have 2 talking heads shout at each other for half an hour. AJ had real news coverage. Watch it yourself for a while and decide. Don’t let anyone else tell you what sources you can access.
Al Jazera is evil.
That said, no one is being forced to pay for it. Case in point. My wife, just this morning, boxed up our Dish Network receiver and associated crap to send back to them. We cancelled our service and will do without in order to not WILLINGLY pay for Al Jezera and other propaganda networks.
I may be forced to pay for it, but I don’t have to watch it.
For a less biased view of world news, the Chinese English-language news channel CCTV is probably a good counterbalance to the pro-Obama slant of most of the other US internal propaganda broadcasting channels. But keep in mind that as well as being generally critical of Obama, they are also biased against the actual US national interests.
This amuses me. Lots of bitching and moaning here about all the trash on these cable and satellite TV services. You all know that you’re putting money into the pockets of al sharpton and msnbc, the weasels in the boardroom at MTV and now al jazeera, every time you pay your bill. But none of you actually believe what you say about how horrible all that is for the country and culture. Nope...your fake reality shows about ducks and pawn shops and professional wrestling and hour long shows reminding you that the US won WW2 and 24/7 sports are way more important to you all.
Forced - what by gun point?
No one is forced to watch TV.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.