Reason Comes to Al Jazeera

David Weigel | March 5, 2008

I'll be talking Ohio and Texas on Al Jazeera at around 1:15 ET. "Where's the live stream?" It's here.

Comments

Taktix®|3.5.08 @ 1:17PM|#

Why do you hate America, David?

lunchstealer|3.5.08 @ 1:21PM|#

couldn't watch due to my hatred of real-player.

So can anybody else give me a quick rundown of the ways Senor Wiegel hated America?

Episiarch|3.5.08 @ 1:26PM|#

I was in Spain last fall and was flipping around the channels, and came across Al Jazeera in English (from the UK, I think).

I wanted to see if it lived up to it's reputation as hate-America-all-the-time.

After 15 minutes I changed the channel out of boredom, because it was fairer than the BBC.

Unless I caught an extraordinarily balanced segment, the LGF-style hate for Al Jazeera (and the concomitant desire to ban it, which would violate the 1st Amendment--thanks LGF!) is pure, idiotic hype.

|3.5.08 @ 1:30PM|#

My experience with Al-Jazeera's English web site is that it is usually more balanced than traditional U.S. Newspapers. I agree with Epi that, generally speaking it is less anti-American than BBC, which makes sense as it is probably more subject to CIA influence than BBC.

Taktix®|3.5.08 @ 1:37PM|#

You don't understand! On the English one, they only tell you want they want you to hear.

On the Arabic one, they just repeat "Death to America" over and over...

/sarcasm

Rimfax|3.5.08 @ 1:52PM|#

...it is probably more subject to CIA influence than BBC.

The CIA still has some influence?!!

dhex|3.5.08 @ 2:08PM|#

Unless I caught an extraordinarily balanced segment, the LGF-style hate for Al Jazeera (and the concomitant desire to ban it, which would violate the 1st Amendment--thanks LGF!) is pure, idiotic hype.

we can fix this to:

"The LGF-style hate for __________ is pure, idiotic hype."

which saves us all trouble in the long run.

Ali|3.5.08 @ 2:13PM|#

I can't recall, is there anything against Al-J operating in the US?

Ali|3.5.08 @ 2:13PM|#

I meant broadcasting, that is.

LT Nixon|3.5.08 @ 2:16PM|#

Al-Jazeera English is way better than stuff stateside. I'm really sorry that Britney/Paris/Lindsay went to jail/rehab/crazy house, but I don't need to hear about 24/7. Al-Jazeera English seems to go where the action is (pakistan, gaza, iraq, etc.) Our brass goes on there all the time to do interviews. Of course if LGF wants to say they hate America, that's well within their 1st amendment right, but they'd look pretty silly.

SIV|3.5.08 @ 2:21PM|#

it was fairer than the BBC
Setting the bar kinda low....
The KCNA is fairer than the BBC
Pyongyang, March 4 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il has successfully realized the uniformity in thought of the Workers' Party of Korea. His imperishable feat is that he has steadily enriched and developed the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung into the guiding idea of the times and attached utmost efforts to the ideological education for officials and party members under the banner of the theory of ideology.

|3.5.08 @ 2:27PM|#

At least Thoreau now knows where to outsource his academic assements documents.

|3.5.08 @ 2:28PM|#

I'm really sorry that Britney/Paris/Lindsay went to jail/rehab/crazy house,

Why? I'm kinda glad, myself.

Christopher Monnier|3.5.08 @ 2:36PM|#

Am I going to be flagged by the CIA for going to aljazeera.net?

brian|3.5.08 @ 4:39PM|#

Ali

I can't recall, is there anything against Al-J operating in the US?

No. I know someone who works at the Al-J studio in Washington D.C. He's conservative to the core, by the way, and finds it way more balanced than any US station, including Fox News (though Fox News is his usual channel of choice, since he loves Bill O'Reilly)