Listening Post-The trial of Al Jazeera-19 June 08 - Part1

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Al Jazeera English battles for airtime in the US as one small town debates what should be on their cable network. Plus- the art of obituary writing.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: June 22, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Author: AlJazeeraEnglish

Length: 00:12:31
Rating: 4.84
Views: 5273

Tags: Al Jazeera English Burlington Listening Post

Video Comments:
GooseHuntCunt (August 25, 2008 at 8:13 pm)
As an Emerate-based channel, why are virtually all your anchorers and presenters in the Arabic channel overwhelmingly Syrian, or not Emeratee?
That just seems strange - don't you have indiginous presenters in your native population, or is it a shallow way to make your channel look more 'European'?
fekkot (July 27, 2008 at 11:49 pm)
Yes, and the truth is you're quite good at making dumb generalizations. First about Jews universally treating Africans better than Arabs and the former only wanting to go to Israel, as if you never heard of Libya. And standard of living has no connection whatsoever to how "good" or "bad" a country is. But the appallingly ignorant claim was that the Arab world has "no freedom or rights for any of its citizens" -- one couldn't make a credible claim that sweeping for Burma! So please.
internationallawman (July 14, 2008 at 1:29 am)
Aside from anything else, it's really funny that in the United States any criticism of Israel is passionately attacked and immediately and effectively suppressed from anything but the marginalized "radical" fringes of discussion, but in Israel it is just an accepted part of ordinary life. Not only would they never ban Al Jazeera in Israel, but if it weren't available the public would demand it!

The paranoid extremism about the slightest criticism of Israel in the US is an amazing phenomenon.
tlkshowhst (July 6, 2008 at 7:28 am)
These uneducated idiots probably watch Fox for all their news.

Most people in this country make me sick.
justletuslive (July 3, 2008 at 3:15 pm)
I wanted to puke when rumsfield spoke.
asedky (July 1, 2008 at 7:28 am)
it is not an issue about antisemetism, aniamericanism or else, it is simply an issue of mindcontrol. mindcontrol of the american public.
xxashyy (June 25, 2008 at 7:52 am)
If these hypocritical jews and theyre non jewish christian zionist fellow travellers dont like Al Jazeera they can turn the channel OFF or switch to another station. The Vermonters in my opinion should counterattack and hold a meeting about banning Fox News. They could ban it because has a Pro Israeli slant which is a fact. They could ban Fox also on the grounds that the network demonizes arabs which is also a fact.
brick4sale (June 25, 2008 at 7:36 pm)
Freedom of speech should work both ways otherwise your undercutting your basic argument. If I like Al Jazeera English and someone likes FOX News I should not be allowed to ban it because it's not my preference I merely switch the channel.
xxashyy (June 25, 2008 at 10:36 pm)
I agree with that point, i should have said "what if".
suhailshafi (June 24, 2008 at 5:27 am)
The real crux of the matter is that in Burlington as in else where there exists a relatively small number of hardline right wingers who wish to impose their will on the rest of society and determine what people can and cannot watch on their television screens. This flies in the face of logic as well as the whole concept of media diversity. Those who consider Al Jazeera to be propaganda are welcome to watch something else.