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Al Jazeera English is the only international news network broadcasting from inside Gaza. So why can't Americans tune in? Is it time to call our cable companies and, like the "I want my MTV" campaign of the olden days, demand AJE?
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37 comments // Forget MTV... I want my AJE!

  • cantspascua
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      cantspascua  
    • "And the government blares blasted propaganda while the media looks on with their wounded eyes but you pay them back with conviction Then be told -You're off to war . To die as a sacrifice to no one. But if you're strong , you carry on . With your last breath you live. Go on get them out - Get out your claws" . - Trust(French anti - government rock group) Song - Get out your claws ( song about how the media is bias in their views about the world)

    • 3 years ago
  • elmodernisto
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      elmodernisto  
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    • Someone mentioned Control Room. Yes. See it. It's great. And speaking of, here's an interview with Control Room's Josh Rushing, the Marine Public Affairs Officer who went to work for Al Jazeera when they launched the English language network...

    • 3 years ago
  • macgarys
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      macgarys  
    • No matter what your political or religious believes are, or which side you support in this conflict. Innocent children should not be abandoned in the middle of such conditions. Without water, food or a clean place to sleep or medical attention. It's time for the rest of the world to act according to our human obligation. Close your eyes for a second just ONE SECOND and imagine it is your own there in the rumble, hungry, cold and terrified, ABANDONED. Stop talking politics, Stop talking religion. JUST BE HUMAN.

      Turn off your TV's the real news is not there. Do a little effort and google the reality of this conflict.

      Bring help to those innocent babies.

    • 3 years ago
  • yonie
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      yonie  
    • Dude... I never realised you Americans weren't able to recieve Al Jazeera English! Now i see why a lot of you are so far off and indoctrinated by spin!

      I can only speak for the Netherlands, but here Al Jazeera English is included in every decent cable subscription, just as CNN. We don't have Fox News, regretfully. :-)

      Imo, AJE News Hour is the best news program to see nowadays. It beats CNN and local Dutch news any day. Too bad almost no one in the Netherlands knows it.

    • 3 years ago
  • crispyfritters
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      crispyfritters  
    • Of course Al-Jazeera is biased. That's unavoidable. The good thing about it is that it offers a sovereign news source based in the middle east. That may give some Americans a bad taste in their mouths, but as Al-Jazeera becomes a more established news source, it will gain acceptance here too.

    • 3 years ago
  • Jackstowne
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      Jackstowne  
    • The best news network: serious, substantive, and covering a wide array of issues. As others have noted, you can check them out on YouTube or Live Station. It's just like the BBC but with more in-depth reporting in general (e.g., full 30 minute segments, if not an hour, on the financial collapse, the Mumbai attacks, etc.), especially with regards to the Middle East and the developing world.

      And, of course, since the Israeli offensive on Gaza, they're basically the only news network actually reporting from the combat zone.

      Check out the video clip from above: it's part I (of II) on the financial collapse.
      Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Cm86k7FOo

    • 3 years ago
  • NoGodsNoMasters
  • mendokusai
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      mendokusai  
    • shes hot

      by the way fatarro's comments are consistently racist against arabs and muslims "al jazeera" is run by arabs for an arab audience with an english offshoot broadcast stupid ass of course its going to be funded by arabs did u put that all together urself?

    • 3 years ago
  • RonenA
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      RonenA  
    • Wow, Israel's and North America's news is bias propaganda but the other side is a heavenly reliable news source. Your decisions were made when you heard who was fighting this war, now you're just picking which propaganda and lies to feed yourself to reinforce your preconceived opinions.

    • 3 years ago
  • rjupiter
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      rjupiter  
    • uh, actually I can or did watch it on my sat when I had it, well not this news show per say, it was not on all the time, it was a channel that had all the news and shows from around the world. Hell I can still see this news show with my rabbit ears/antenna its on with a block of news shows from around the world, I watch them all when I have the chance.

      Also no one and I mean no one can say that any news is 100% not bias, I don't buy it. No matter who you are or what country your in their is always a slant.

    • 3 years ago
  • Armageddon_Now
  • daveguy
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      daveguy  
    • I absolutely agree that AJE is the best news available in this situation.

      Unfortunately I can't get AJE w/ my cable, so I just find my news online @ current, w00t!

      I have COX communications in PHX, AZ (in case you bastards are listening, your signal is terrible and your services are too expensive, but your telephone operators are nice enough).

    • 3 years ago
  • KI4CLZ
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      KI4CLZ  
    • You can also watch:
      Abu Dhabi TV, UAE
      Al Arabiya TV, UAE
      Al Alam TV, Iran
      Alsumaria TV, Iran
      Press TV, Iran
      Al Iraqiya TV, Iraq
      Bagdad TV, Iraq
      Syria TV, Syria
      Jordan TV, Jordan
      Dubai TV, UAE
      Nile TV, Egypt
      IBA TV, Israel
      NBN TV, Lebanon
      Saudi TV, Saudi Arabia
      Palestine TV, Ramallah

      In ENGLISH on Mosaic News from Link TV; they translate all of the Middle East news and dub it into English...
      Digg it!

      http://www.linktv.org/mosaic

    • 3 years ago
  • NoGodsNoMasters
  • petarro
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      petarro  
    • Have you seen a single Hamas militant in Gaza broadcasted by AlJazeera since this started? Have they called the Hamas leader asking why haven't they called for a cease fire if they will obviously lose? Why haven't I seen one single armed man inside Gaza? We clearly see the videos of the rockets going to Gaza from Israel, and we see the rockets from Gaza to Israel. But have you seen anything opposing their own?

      I'm not going to argue, AlJazeera is paid by top Arabs in London and paid for the Arabs. Their advertisement, everything you see is Arabs behind, no one else that could ever boycott them if they use it for their own purpose. Instead, CNN, CBS you see them paid by Arabs and American and European.

      I'm not here to convince people into things. If you don't care to think for your own, make your own future.

    • 3 years ago
  • elmodernisto
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      elmodernisto  
    • petarro:

      The reason we might not be seeing many armed members of Hamas is because Hamas is trying to play the media just as the Israelis are. It's an issue that is openly discussed... drumroll... on Al Jazeera's show, Listening Post:

    • 3 years ago
  • kivol
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      kivol  
    • I want to see where this bias lay because I am having a hard time seeing it. Some of their videos show what is really happening to these people and some are calling it a lie. What the deal?

    • 3 years ago
  • petarro
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      petarro  
    • AlJazeera is 500% Biased! Not only is fully biased, but you can feel it, is like if the reporters would be taking vengeance. They talk bad to the hosts, they interrupt them just when they are going to say something that affects Arabs... it's seriously, seriously 400% worse than CNN and any other media that could hide some report. American news could hide reports, but AlJazeera is pure LIE!

    • 3 years ago
  • Hostile
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      Hostile  
    • petarro:

      Uh-huh, keep telling yourself that. The rest of the world is switching on to Al-Jazeera and realising just how much of our planet had been previously hidden from us.

    • 3 years ago
  • frimer
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  • jc911truth
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      jc911truth  
    • petarro:

      You'd better keep your fat and empty head glued to FOX. Can you imagine what your master would think if they knew you turned the channel. Bad boy, stop your thinking, drop down on your knees in front of that TV and make sure it's on FOX...make sure the radio is tuned to Rush too! Bad, bad boy. Don't ever try thinking or giving an unbiased opinion again! Your not good at it anyway.

    • 3 years ago
  • FaintLee
  • Hostile
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      Hostile  
    • Al Jazeera is brilliant, although before it went English it used to play a lot more uncensored footage from war zones.

    • 3 years ago
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