Now that Al Jazeera English is finally available in the US (at least in the DC metro area and on select PBS stations), here are some intersting quotes about the network:
"The only country we haven't been kicked out of is Israel. Even the Palestinians kicked us out once"
Former Al Jazeera English . - Managing director Nigel Parsons
"Al Jazeera is a perfect example of [how]... we open up the doors so that you can see what these cultures are and understand that the differences are not so much" - George Clooney, actor
"Accuracy in Media is renewing its demand for a federal probe to determine if Al Jazeera constitutes a global terrorist entity and whether its American operations should be closed down immediately" - Statement by right-wing US media watchdog Accuracy in Media
"Where are you heading, Jazeera? Why this hostility toward the mujahideen (holy warriors)?" - Statement by militant Islamist group led by Abu Musab Al Zarqawi
"If anyone lived in the Middle East and watched a network like the Al Jazeera channel day after day after day, even if he was an American, he would start waking up and asking what's wrong. But America is not wrong. It's the people who are going on television chopping off people's heads, that is wrong" - Former US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld confounds a security conference in Singapore by alleging that Al Jazeera broadcasts beheadings
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One of my friends is very savvy politically and he referred to Al Jazeera as the Terrorist News Network. I said, "Oh, really?" and then I fired up Ol' Betsy and we watched. The first thing we saw was Sir David Frost conducting an interview.
The only news organization in the world that can compete with Al Jazeerah is the BBC. Both are government funded news organizations with the mandate to objectively report world news.
If you're going to be a truly informed world citizen (instead of a slack-jawed idiot who gets his news from the F*x Nuts Network), then you have to depend on both of these excellent media sources.
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but i guess they have to make a living, by pretending to collect and disseminate news in an objective fashion. shame, really.