# so what do you think about Al-Jazeera international? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 7, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-do-you-think-about-al-jazeera-international/383209 "2006-12-07T13:17:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-do-you-think-about-al-jazeera-international/383209/41 "2006-12-10T14:33:24Z")
We don’t have Al-Jazeera International on Rogers cable or DBS satellite here (Toronto). And Rogers Cable has all sorts of stuff, including six channels in Russian and three in Tamil. Pity. I’d like to see it. It would balance out Fox News Channel. I also wish we got CNN International instead of the US domestic service, which is rather vapid at times. And I hope we’ll get the France 24 news channel, but at least you can watch that off their website (at least for the time being). ---
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-do-you-think-about-al-jazeera-international/383209/42 "2006-12-10T17:26:11Z")
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven] **Wildfire** MM\*\*: Your comment that Jews control the U.S. media is right up there with blacks having natural rhythm, Japanese being sneaky, and Catholics being cannibals. Part 1: it’s nonsense. Part 2: It’s stereotyping, if not “hate speech” which is prohibited on our Message Boards. Even if it’s not “hate speech” per se, such a discussion belongs in Great Debates forum, not here. [/QUOTE] The US media does fairly good job at ignoring any wrongdoing ever done by Israel and is heavily pro-Israeli in almost all reporting on Israel though. I don’t know enough on the religous makeup of the movers and shakers of the US media (which pretty sucks anyway, regardless) to make the same connection. I don’t think that his accusation is particularly nonsensical or hateful. Fundamentalists Christians are so often talked about negatively in this manner on the Dope, not too mention adherants to Islam, without it being called “hate speech.” ---
**Author:** ![Aquila\_Be](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a698b9/32.png) [@Aquila\_Be](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquila_Be)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-do-you-think-about-al-jazeera-international/383209/43 "2006-12-12T09:30:55Z")
I believe we can be sure about one thing. Al Jazeera will provide its English speaking viewers with a new version of reality, judging by this interview of Al-Jazeera Editor-in-Chief Ahmed Sheikh on 7 December 2006. [worldpoliticswatch](http://www.worldpoliticswatch.com/article.aspx?id=395) > [@](#): > > Q: Who is responsible for the situation? > A: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most important reasons why these crises and problems continue to simmer. The day when Israel was founded created the basis for our problems. The West should finally come to understand this. Everything would be much calmer if the Palestinians were given their rights. > Q: Do you mean to say that if Israel did not exist, there would suddenly be democracy in Egypt, that the schools in Morocco would be better, that the public clinics in Jordan would function better? > A: I think so. _Targo_ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-do-you-think-about-al-jazeera-international/383209/44 "2006-12-12T17:36:28Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] We don’t have Al-Jazeera International on Rogers cable or DBS satellite here (Toronto). And Rogers Cable has all sorts of stuff, including six channels in Russian and three in Tamil. [/QUOTE] I was in Chicago a couple of summers ago and ate dinner at an Eritrean restaurant. They had Eritrean TV playing (in English, mostly). Whether they got via cable or dish I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-do-you-think-about-al-jazeera-international/383209/45 "2006-12-12T17:42:48Z")
Eritrean cuisine, BTW, is much like Ethiopian – you get a mound of bite-sized pieces of meat in a spicy sauce, and mounds of mashed vegetables, both of which you eat on pieces of a damp, spongy flatbread. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-do-you-think-about-al-jazeera-international/383209/46 "2006-12-13T16:36:20Z")
FYI, _The Daily Show_ is doing an “al-Jazeera Makeover” tonight! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-do-you-think-about-al-jazeera-international/383209/47 "2006-12-19T01:14:12Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] FYI, _The Daily Show_ is doing an “al-Jazeera Makeover” tonight! 🙂 [/QUOTE] And they frackin’ **nailed** it! 😃 Come to think of it . . . al-Jazeera might do better in the U.S. if they had a name that didn’t invite comparisons to “jizz” . . . Though to me, it always calls to mind an old Cat Stevens song from the [_Numbers_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_%28Cat_Stevens_album%29) album: “They call me Jzero . . .” . . . which is even more apt since he changed his name to “Yusuf Islam” . . . OK, I’ll stop free-associating now. For now. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-do-you-think-about-al-jazeera-international/383209/48 "2006-12-19T20:32:17Z")
I have Dish and we get link TV. They include INN and Mosaic. These are international news programs from around the world. Mosaic gets Israeli,Afgan,Irani,Iraqi, and Qatar viewpoints. But they are way too short. I would watch the Al Jazeera channel if it was available specially because the Al Jazeera web site is not working any more. If Israel provided a program I would watch that too. Not enough news from the world is available. We miss viewpoints from South America,Central America ,Japan etc. We are too damn provincial. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-do-you-think-about-al-jazeera-international/383209/49 "2006-12-19T21:15:58Z")
[QUOTE=gonzomax] II would watch the Al Jazeera channel if it was available specially because the Al Jazeera web site is not working any more. [/QUOTE] It’s working. Here’s their website: > **[Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera](https://www.aljazeera.com/)** > > News, analysis from the Middle East & worldwide, multimedia & interactives, opinions, documentaries, podcasts, long reads and broadcast schedule. ---
**Author:** ![Jaochai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2acd7d/32.png) [@Jaochai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaochai)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-do-you-think-about-al-jazeera-international/383209/50 "2006-12-23T05:36:55Z")
Speaking of which, you can watch it right from Realplayer or what-have-you on their website. I payed the 6 dollars a month to watch it high-resolution; it’s fascinating. And that Shahnaz Pakravan? SO fine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-do-you-think-about-al-jazeera-international/383209.md?page=2)