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Cool - I was on vacation when Al Jazeera was approved by the CTRC.
CRTC approves Al-Jazeera for Canadian viewers - CTV news, July 16.
Rogers indicated it may not carry it - too much work to monitor - right.
Al Jazeera is a great news network- it can have all the polish and presentation of a BBC newscast, with gritty journalism offering both sides of a story. You will be impressed when you have a chance to see it.
Here is a great opinion piece by Haroon Siddiqui that appeared in the Toronto Star just before it was approved.
It's a good day for Canada.
I watch Al Jazeera on my ipod. The app is free and it works very well. It's a different perspective in many ways. Al Jazeera seems to share the BBC's contempt for anything that smacks of socialism, though. Doubtless that helps to reassure our overlords ....
Al-Jazeera English, the English-language service of the Qatar-based broadcaster, has been approved for distribution via satellite in Canada.
I heard about this ruling today on the local CBC radio station. The person supplying the information said that the English al-Jazeera station was run by a nice former CBC employee named Tony Burman and was nothing like that nasty Arabic al-Jazeera. I don't suppose the CJC will complain to the CRTC about the blantant anti-Arab racism of the CBC.
Examples?
Just received the e-mail - it's approved.
Damn thought rosa had decided to return
You don't think Avi Lewis' reports from California will balance things, rosa? :)
I may get this if Shaw gets it. I am sure there will be a free preview. CNN International I wish we could get here.
Newsnet, Newsworld, Fox, Global, CNN and the headline news CNN all suck. They are not even news. MSNBC is good and BBC World is great, CNN International the one time I saw it seemed good and nothing like the 'fluff' version we get.
CBC used to be great at one time, even BCTV used to be great until the mid 90's.
It seems most North America so called alleged media does not know how to report or investigate news and issues anymore. It is a real shame. No one really asks the tough questions or the questions that need to be asked anymore.
I think a lot of the degeneration started when reporters started going to journalism schools they lost 'something' and basically now if you have a pretty face, nice body, eyes are level, can talk you are hired.
Where are the Jack Websters? Marjorie Nichols? Pat Burns? Walter Cronkites? etc now a days?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1119662.html
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/08/12/ohanlon/
Al Jazeera Journalist Resigns over Syria and Bahrain Coverage
Who would have guessed that a newspaper based in a fully imperialist western-friendly country would be so biased?
Shocking beyond belief I know.
Haven't heard any news of Tony Burman resigning...He feels right at home in such an organization.