[Bucco]

Originally Posted by nitehawk

I am happy to see some of TOTV still have there head in the sand - have another kool aid and turn on rush limbough - so you can get and unbiased opinion of the news
Gracie what was your reason for starting this post ???? and what is your opinion
Gracie we all love you -- you must have been brought up in a "leave it to beaver" home ----- you remind me so much of Gracie Allen of the George Burns and Gracie Allen show which was on after Leave it to beaver

Can't speak for Grace, but I think the voice of the Arab world on our TV' is news. This is the channel that both left and right mocked.....this is the folks that Gore sold to.

Why would this not be newsworthy ? Did someone say it was not somewhere ?

With the constant harangue everywhere you turn on networks, I think a network based in, and theologically driven by the Arab world, and once found to be vile by ALL political sides in this country is worthy of discussion for sure.

Unless you have your head in the sand and have done zero research on this subject.

We sure have moved in "some" direction to now mock discussion of the beheading live channel coming to our homes as if normal.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by l2ridehd

And any news station that does the live broadcast of terrorists be-heading an American journalist and the news commentator thinks it's a good story is one I will not watch. Or did our short term memory folks forget that happened?

Did you actually view that? Because here's what Wikipedia said:

A widely reported criticism is the unfounded allegation that Al Jazeera showed videos of masked terrorists beheading western hostages in Iraq.[25][citation needed] When this was reported in other media, Al Jazeera pressed for retractions to be made.[30] This allegation was again repeated on Fox News Channel in the USA on the launch day of Al Jazeera's English service, 15 November 2006.[31] Later The Guardian apologized for incorrect information that Al Jazeera "had shown videos of masked terrorists beheading western hostages".[

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by CFrance

Did you actually view that? Because here's what Wikipedia said:

A widely reported criticism is the unfounded allegation that Al Jazeera showed videos of masked terrorists beheading western hostages in Iraq.[25][citation needed] When this was reported in other media, Al Jazeera pressed for retractions to be made.[30] This allegation was again repeated on Fox News Channel in the USA on the launch day of Al Jazeera's English service, 15 November 2006.[31] Later The Guardian apologized for incorrect information that Al Jazeera "had shown videos of masked terrorists beheading western hostages".[

That explains a lot!

[Bavarian]

Originally Posted by TheVillagesAV.com

Wishing them the best! It would be nice to see some real unbiased journalism.

Fox News Channel and Fox Business Channels are Fair and Balanced. I also watch Glenn Beck on The Blaze, he is one sided, but he predicted the troubles in Egypt over a year ago, He is no worse than MSNBC.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by nitehawk

I am happy to see some of TOTV still have there head in the sand - have another kool aid and turn on rush limbough - so you can get and unbiased opinion of the news
Gracie what was your reason for starting this post ???? and what is your opinion
Gracie we all love you -- you must have been brought up in a "leave it to beaver" home ----- you remind me so much of Gracie Allen of the George Burns and Gracie Allen show which was on after Leave it to beaver

How so? I see now comparison with the character that Gracie portrayed.

[RedChariot]

Originally Posted by l2ridehd

and any news station that does the live broadcast of terrorists be-heading an american journalist and the news commentator thinks it's a good story is one i will not watch. Or did our short term memory folks forget that happened?

i will not support this station by watching. I have not forgotten.

[Bucco]

Originally Posted by CFrance

Did you actually view that? Because here's what Wikipedia said:

A widely reported criticism is the unfounded allegation that Al Jazeera showed videos of masked terrorists beheading western hostages in Iraq.[25][citation needed] When this was reported in other media, Al Jazeera pressed for retractions to be made.[30] This allegation was again repeated on Fox News Channel in the USA on the launch day of Al Jazeera's English service, 15 November 2006.[31] Later The Guardian apologized for incorrect information that Al Jazeera "had shown videos of masked terrorists beheading western hostages".[

I hate when I get my facts wrong and I alluded to the beheadings in a small part of my post defending Gracie for starting this thread...for that I apologize. I really hate to have facts distorted and it appears I may have been a party to that no matter other questionable items that were aired. I was wrong.

Having said that...there was an interesting piece in the WSJ this year on this network.....

" Al Gore and his co-investors just sold liberal cable channel Current TV to Al Jazeera, the network bankrolled by the emir of Qatar. How much in carbon offsets does Mr. Gore need to balance his estimated $100 million from the sale to an oil sheik?

But there's a more serious issue here than hypocrisy. Current's owners could have simply said they sold to the highest bidder, with the emir paying an estimated $500 million for a network with viewership of only 22,000. Instead they glorified Al Jazeera."

This is not meant to be political and is not at all....a few examples because I am beginning to think that nobody on here ever reads links supply and thus cannot possibly learn anything.....

"More due diligence might have included a review of the close journalistic coverage over the years of Al Jazeera's Arabic and English broadcasts, which discloses the unsurprising fact that the network reflects the interests of the government that runs it�making it akin to Vladimir Putin's Russia Today and Beijing's Xinhua. The emir of Qatar, Hamid bin Khalifa Al Thani, appointed his cousin as chairman of Al Jazeera. The emir was last in the news for donating $400 million to Hamas, a terrorist organization.

Mr. Gore could have read the Middle East Quarterly profile titled "The Two Faces of Al Jazeera." The network gets good marks for programming in areas outside the emir's direct interests, but the article concludes that Al Jazeera continues "to inflame Arab resentments in its promotion of anti-Americanism, Sunni sectarianism and, in recent years, Islamism."

There is much more to read on this network !!!

I do not think it is a good thing for this country to allow outside influence in our media.......

"l Jazeera's coverage of the Arab Spring has been uneven, reflecting the emir's interests. Former Al Jazeera journalist Ali Hashem wrote in London's Guardian in April that government officials had "asked the channel to cover up the situation in Bahrain," Qatar's neighbor, where a Sunni monarch is brutally suppressing a pro-democracy uprising led by majority Shiite protesters.

Judea Pearl, whose son Daniel was the Wall Street Journal reporter kidnapped and beheaded in 2002 by al Qaeda terrorists, once had high hopes that Al Jazeera would be more open than other Arab government media. But he has written that the network has "committed itself unconditionally and unabashedly to the service of Hamas and Hezbollah. . . . It is no longer a clash with journalistic standards but a clash with the norms of civilized behavior."

Crovitz: Inconvenient Truths About Al Jazeera - WSJ.com

Grace made a good choice in beginning this thread and it needs to be thought about in a very serious manner.

[Bucco]

In the last post, I apologized for erring in including a comment about the beheading that was broadcast. I apologized because I thought it had been broadcast live.

To make sure the facts are out there....in 2004. NBC did a story on how it was covered in the middle east.....from that story...

"Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, the big two satellite networks, aired carefully edited versions of the video. In Al-Arabiya�s edit, a militant is seen drawing a knife and jerking Berg�s body to one side. The rest is not shown."

Part of it did make the air on Al Jazeera but not complete.....

Arab media play down beheading - World news - Mideast/N. Africa - Conflict in Iraq | NBC News

[l2ridehd]

They did show the beginning. They did show the knife. They did show the body slumping. And we know the final results. So go ahead and deny they showed it. That is almost like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denying the Holocaust ever happened. But I have been to Dachau and Buchenwald and seen that it really did happen. And oh yes, they also broadcast his speech denying that on Al -Jazeera as well. So yes I will never watch that network. I will even go so far as to search out who advertises on that network and never buy their products.

[jblum315]

Just as well I couldn't see it if I wanted to. Not available on CenturyLink Prism apparently

[Bucco]

Originally Posted by l2ridehd

They did show the beginning. They did show the knife. They did show the body slumping. And we know the final results. So go ahead and deny they showed it. That is almost like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denying the Holocaust ever happened. But I have been to Dachau and Buchenwald and seen that it really did happen. And oh yes, they also broadcast his speech denying that on Al -Jazeera as well. So yes I will never watch that network. I will even go so far as to search out who advertises on that network and never buy their products.

"In 2008, Al Jazeera threw an on-air party for Samir Kuntar when he was released from an Israeli prison. Kuntar led a Palestine Liberation Front terrorist team that kidnapped an Israeli family in 1979. He shot the father and killed the 4-year-old daughter by smashing her head against rocks along the beach. In footage available on YouTube, Al Jazeera's Beirut bureau chief hands Kuntar a scimitar to cut the celebratory cake and says: "This is the sword of the Arabs, Samir."

Crovitz: Inconvenient Truths About Al Jazeera - WSJ.com

If you wish to watch the birthday party for the killer...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIkrQGz5ats]Al Jazeera Throws Party for Child Killer (Samir Kuntar) - YouTube[/ame]

You might also want to check on the litany of journalists who left them in 2012 as a result of the bias coverage on Syria !!!!

[l2ridehd]

Originally Posted by Bucco

"In 2008, Al Jazeera threw an on-air party for Samir Kuntar when he was released from an Israeli prison. Kuntar led a Palestine Liberation Front terrorist team that kidnapped an Israeli family in 1979. He shot the father and killed the 4-year-old daughter by smashing her head against rocks along the beach. In footage available on YouTube, Al Jazeera's Beirut bureau chief hands Kuntar a scimitar to cut the celebratory cake and says: "This is the sword of the Arabs, Samir."

Crovitz: Inconvenient Truths About Al Jazeera - WSJ.com

If you wish to watch the birthday party for the killer...

Al Jazeera Throws Party for Child Killer (Samir Kuntar) - YouTube

You might also want to check on the litany of journalists who left them in 2012 as a result of the bias coverage on Syria !!!!

Good post Bucco. Just one more reason to never watch them and to boycott who ever advertises on that station.

[Shimpy]

Originally Posted by l2ridehd

And any news station that does the live broadcast of terrorists be-heading an American journalist and the news commentator thinks it's a good story is one I will not watch. Or did our short term memory folks forget that happened?

I agree. Funny how they were always on the spot with cameras just before bombings. You don't think they had inside info do you???

[justjim]

Anything that you feel is inappropriate to watch you have the option to push the button on your remote and find something better to watch. Sometimes I find it difficult to find anything worth watching!

[Markam]

Before we 'rush to judgement', maybe it might be in order to just see what all the fuss is about by actually watching the network a few times. I occasionally see what is being reported on the Al Jazeera US centered website and find their take to be informative but sometimes disturbing. They report a lot of world events that we don't always hear about on the mainstream media. BBC is another good alternative.

BTW, I can't blame Gore for selling the way he did. I've created a few losers in my life and if someone offered to buy just one of them for $70,000,000.00 I just might have let them take it off of my hands. Did Beck offer that much?