Al Jazeera aquires Current TV

[Baltimatt]

Semantics. Who owns News Corps? Austrailian Rupert Murdoch

Murdoch is an American.

For Murdoch, who became a U.S. citizen in 1985, ...

[Tristan]

Come on Al, pay your fair share!

Don't worry, the occupy wall street scum will be setting up their filthy tents, raping fellow protesters and defecating on police cars out in front of OwlGore's mansion any day now.

Lousy 1 percenters.

[WKDWZD]

Murdoch is an American.

Piers Morgan next...

[AttackPlanR]

Piers Morgan next...

We'll take your Piers Morgan, but you'll have to take our O'Riley and Mann Coulter.

[demopublican]

Al Jazeera has better news content than CNN, Fox, and MSNBC

Isn't that like being the skinniest kid at fat camp?

[Contumacious]

I am opposed to foreign ownership of broadcast networks. Cable I don't care so much about.

I fully support foreign ownership of broadcast and cable networks .

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[LarryN]

Al Gore has accepted dirty money. Where does Al think the government of Qatar gets it's money?

[CajunRaven]

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.co...?smid=tw-share



Gee, what a surprise.

Is the money he's receiving coming from oil profits?

[LarryN]

Is the money he's receiving coming from oil profits?

Dirty, dirty oil and gas profits.

[CajunRaven]

Dirty, dirty oil and gas profits.

So he's basically a tax evader who cares nothing about his lesser bretheren and is unwilling to pay his fair share he received from the planet haters. Oh my.

Now that's an inconvenient truth.

[LarryN]

So he's basically a tax evader who cares nothing about his lesser bretheren and is unwilling to pay his fair share he received from the planet haters. Oh my.

Now that's an inconvenient truth.

Inconvenient, indeed.

[Jeebus]

Even the Arabs don't trust Al Jazeera.

Of course.

Al Jazeera bias in Arab world may not translate here

In 2004, interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi temporarily shut down Al Jazeera's broadcast in Iraq because he said it was inciting violence and racial hatred. In 2008, former ABC-TV "Nightline" reporter Dave Marash, brought on to anchor Al Jazeera English for American audiences, quit after two years and said the anti-American bias at the station was "reflexive."

"The agreement by Al Jazeera cable-television network to buy Current TV is not necessarily a plus for U.S. cable operators or their audiences," said Andrea Levin, president and executive director of CAMERA.

CAMERA said one of the network's most popular programs is "Shariah and Life," hosted by Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a former "spiritual guide" of the Muslim Brotherhood. Al-Qaradawi has called for conversion of Europe and North America to Islam and a Muslim-led genocide of Israel and the Jews, Levin said.

[Wes]

Al Jazeera on Wednesday completed a deal to take over Current TV, the low-rated cable channel that was founded by Al Gore and his business partners seven years ago.

continued;

Current will provide the pan-Arab news giant with something it has sought for years: a pathway into American living rooms. Current is available in about 60 million of the 100 million homes in the United States with cable or satellite service.

Rather than simply use Current to distribute its English-language channel, called Al Jazeera English and based in Doha, Qatar, Al Jazeera will create a new channel, called Al Jazeera America, based in New York. Roughly 60 percent of the programming will be produced in the United States, while the remaining 40 percent will come from Al Jazeera English.

Al Jazeera may absorb some Current TV staff members, according to people with knowledge of the deal who insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. But Current’s schedule of shows will most likely be dissolved in the spring.

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This is a BlockBuster......

[bmorepunk]

Even the Arabs don't trust Al Jazeera.

Of course.

Al Jazeera bias in Arab world may not translate here

I watch Al Jazeera because they actually get reports from places instead of just playing some footage and running a bunch of speculation. Our cable news networks are so bad that Al Jazeera puts them to shame in journalistic professionalism, even when you factor in the anti-West bias.

[RalR]

The Qatar-based news agency Al-Jazeera recently took over Current TV, the cable channel founded by former Vice President Al Gore. The deal will make Al-Jazeera available in 40 million homes across the U.S. Host Rachel Martin talks with Al-Jazeera's executive producer for the Americas, Bob Wheelock, about what the acquisition means for the agency's future

http://www.npr.org/2013/01/06/168724...ith-current-tv

[llubon]

This is a good thing. Good news coverage