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Al Jazeera Coming to America (Liberal Focus On EIB First)
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| 7/18/05
| Limbacher
Posted on 07/18/2005 7:23:15 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
The pro-terrorist Al Jazeera International will debut early next year as a 24-hour English-language news network headquartered in the Middle East.
And efforts to bring the network to the U.S. have been "very interesting and extremely encouraging, according to Commercial Director Lindsey Oliver.
At launch the network will have a staff of "hundreds, said Oliver, a former director of CNBC Europe.
The advertising-supported network will operate out of four broadcast centers Washington, London, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia - and Doha, Qatar, its headquarters.
The international version of Al Jazeera, which has been accused by Washington of having an anti-American, pro-terrorist bias, will launch on schedule "regardless of its subscriber count, according to the publication Broadcasting & Cable.
On the networks schedule, the first half of each hour will be devoted to hard news, and the second will largely feature talk shows and documentaries.
The managing director of the network will be Nigel Parsons, a 30-year media veteran formerly with Associated Press Television News, and Yemen-born CNN veteran Riz Khan will host a live interview show.
The network is funded by the Emir of Qatar, who launched the Arab-language Al Jazeera in 1996.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amanpour; danrather; mathews; news; woodruff
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
EIB = Rush Limbaugh's broadcasts.....
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posted on
07/18/2005 7:27:42 AM PDT
by
rface
("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - New Bloomfield, Missouri)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
The managing director of the network will be Nigel Parsons, a 30-year media veteran formerly with Associated Press Television News, and Yemen-born CNN veteran Riz Khan yeah, those previous jobs are in keeping with al-jazeera.
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posted on
07/18/2005 7:28:30 AM PDT
by
wildwood
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Competition for Air America.
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
1) Why did you change the headline?
2) EIB is not mentioned in the story. Why did you add it?
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posted on
07/18/2005 7:35:59 AM PDT
by
Phantom Lord
(Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Good ... maybe Americans will now get the opportunity to witness be-headings, mass executions, and Allah Akbar rallies.
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posted on
07/18/2005 7:38:56 AM PDT
by
layman
(Card Carrying Infidel)
To: rface
Will Time Magazine run a cover story "Is Al Jazeera Good For America" the way they demonized Rush Limbaugh's radio show?
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posted on
07/18/2005 7:41:52 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Re: immigration "Those Syrians are coming to Iraq to do the bombings that Iraqis won't do.")
To: layman
I hope they will. Right now, the Ratherbiased media tells us to troll the web for extremist websites to see such news items as the brutal murder of innocents.
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posted on
07/18/2005 7:42:58 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Re: immigration "Those Syrians are coming to Iraq to do the bombings that Iraqis won't do.")
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
How lovely. Just what we need...the arab version of BBC to propagandize to our muslims.
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posted on
07/18/2005 7:49:09 AM PDT
by
jess35
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
The international version of Al Jazeera, which has been accused by Washington of having an anti-American, pro-terrorist bias, will launch on schedule "regardless of its subscriber count, according to the publication Broadcasting & Cable.Sounds like the Saudi's are involved. They have money to just toss down Al Jazeera's toilet..
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posted on
07/18/2005 7:50:37 AM PDT
by
cardinal4
(Senate Dems- striving for a level of petulance and immaturity seen only in pre schools..)
To: weegee
This will just increase the likely hood of raising our own homegrown terrorists like England
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posted on
07/18/2005 7:51:56 AM PDT
by
Tspud1
To: layman
I wonder if they are going to have a special segment for prayer time, 5 times a day.
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Wouldn't it be great if;
No one rented or sold property to them
No construction firms would work for them
If they had land and wanted to build, the All the Unions picket if they tried to bring in SCABS from the ME or anywhere else.
AJ could be made very uncomfortable.
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posted on
07/18/2005 7:52:36 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: Admin Moderator
Please remove misleading portion of title or remove thread.
Story has nothing to do with EIB, which is 'Excellence in Broadcasting Network', the Rush Limbaugh Show.
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posted on
07/18/2005 7:55:51 AM PDT
by
Babu
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Our troops protect the "Emir of Qatar" and he funds a blatantly anti-America media organ, not to mention, they fund al-Qaeda all over the world.
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
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posted on
07/18/2005 7:58:04 AM PDT
by
Dolphan
(God Bless our Military and their families)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
It will be interesting to see who the commercial sponsors will be. Will they all end with "Paid for by George Soros"
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posted on
07/18/2005 7:58:17 AM PDT
by
TheForceOfOne
(My tagline snapped the last time the MSM blew smoke up my ass. Now its gone forever.)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I can't tell from this article if they are hoping to have a Washington office, or if they're already getting one set up. Since they are anti-American & pro-terrorist, I can't understand how anyone working for AlJazeera even gets a visa to visit here.
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posted on
07/18/2005 8:00:58 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: TheForceOfOne
I saee absolutely no good in bringing this arab extremeist propaganda garbage here.........the liberals will love it too much too.
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
My cable network better not carry this terrorist network, or I'm back to my old antenna.
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posted on
07/18/2005 8:04:42 AM PDT
by
docbnj
(There are just three good judges, joined in the this case by O'Connor (to her credit).)
To: SoothSayerONETIME
Neither do I, Just wondering which U.S. based companies would be so bold as to advertise with them and ruin the product they're selling because it would probably face a national boycott.
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posted on
07/18/2005 8:05:10 AM PDT
by
TheForceOfOne
(My tagline snapped the last time the MSM blew smoke up my ass. Now its gone forever.)
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