For the last couple of days I have been watching Al-Jazeera's recently launched English news channel and I am really impressed. It is not available in India but the news capsule is available on their website or you can go through this link directly.
Seems the channel is not welcome in America. The channel has been launched worldwide but is not available on Echostar's dishnetwork or any other major US cable or satellite network. Agreed that Bush administration doesn't like the channel but why corporate America is against it. New York Times wrote that it's a shame that Americans couldn't watch it.
Tony Blair's interview and admission of failure in Iraq has been a good start for the channel. Most newspapers agreed that it's presentation was standard and at par with the best in the world. People call it as end of western dominance of global news space. But surely Europeans and US citizens can get the other side of story also. And the world has just got a quality news channel with a different perspective and agenda than the CNN, FOX et al.
Embedded journalism, beware!
Will my cable guy show it? It is Rajat Sharma's India TV that does show a 15-30 minute news in the evening.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Watching Al-Jazeera English
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I have been reading http://english.aljazeera.net for more than a year now. It is really really good. It is a shame that US jamhoor is not protesting for their own right-to-information(RTI).
Whenever I forwarded URL to a well-reserched article (of course in my opinion) to Muslims, they mostly rejected them as conspiracy theories. So, I stopped doing it.
Well even BCC is normally not carried by the cable operators here.
I think under govt regulations, any news channel has to be 75% Indian owned, to be able to function as a 'Indian news channel'. So, the possibility of Al Jazeera broadcast in India will be postponed till they tie up with any Indian counterpart.
Regarding conspiracy theories, those are unending. I know that all the people who says that Al Queada was not behind 9/11, also say that Al Jazeera is pro-US (orkut groups) and they paste the links from same news source when Palestein/Lebannon is attacked.
BTW, I don't know how did you miss upcoming Al Jazeera Urdu news channel.
http://www.aljazeeraurdu.tv/
yes, heard about Urdu channel but could not get much update ever since. Website, I guess, is under-construction, let's see when it begins to air...
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