Al Jazeera Launches Major US Expansion

Middle East Broadcaster Al Jazeera Launches Major US Expansion



Tuesday, 19 Feb 2013 12:55 PM
By Lisa Barron


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Al Jazeera, the cable news network owned by the government of Qatar, has big plans for its American operation despite being criticized by the U.S. government for airing videos from Osama bin Laden.

The U.S. cable news channel, Al Jazeera America, will be editorially separate from the Doha-based broadcast center that is also home to Al Jazeera English.

Bob Wheelock, the former ABC executive in charge of setting it up, believes times have changed and so has Al Jazeera’s image.

“Imagine six or seven years ago, trying to find real estate for Al Jazeera in Washington. I’m sure it wasn’t easy,” he told USA Today. Now, he said, “We’re going to have signage, you know, just like CBS, ABC, CNN, NBC, just like everybody else. We’re psyched.”http://www.newsmax.com/MKTNews/obamacare-dick-morris-video/2013/02/12/id/489884?promo_code=12803-1

Al Jazeera spent $500 million last year to buy Current TV — which can be seen on cable channels in 41 million homes — from former Vice President Al Gore and other investors. Cable operators have the option of dropping Al Jazeera, which Time Warner has suggested it might do.

Al Jazeera English, which launched in 2006, has until now been available on just a few cable systems or online. It has won numerous awards, however, for its international news — especially its coverage of the Arab Spring — and received praise from some in Washington, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“We hope to bring international news and more in-depth storytelling for the viewers,” said Wheelock. “There’s an appetite for news from elsewhere and for the documentaries we do and the type of coverage we do.”

Al Jazeera America plans to increase its staff of 13 to some 200 people across the country. It is building a new broadcast center in Washington, expanding its space at the UN in New York, and setting up bureaus in Detroit, New Orleans, San Francisco and five other cities.

The network recently posted job listings for more than 100 reporters, producers, videographers, and online writers and received thousands of applications.

Al Jazeera will face an already crowded field of cable news providers, competing with American channels, including CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC, and global networks such as BBC World News, Russia Today, France 24 and CCTV.

Detroit, New Orleans, San Francisco and five other cities.

Wonder why ......?

I have Dish. Is there a way to block a channel, say, current? I;d also like to block OWN. I don't even want to see them as choices. How?

waybomb said:

I have Dish. Is there a way to block a channel, say, current? I;d also like to block OWN. I don't even want to see them as choices. How?

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There is a very technical way to block any channel.

Just don't tune it in.

Cute.

Don't worry, I fly right by 'em without even looking.

I don't even want to see the choice. In fact, not only them, but all the kiddy channels and the buy-on-tv channels, etc.

Fred, I had dish years ago and you could set up your receiver to never see them in the menu. You may need to call customer service. Demand to speak to somebody in America. They will at least get you a better speaking Indian to guide you through it.

I'll give it a try. I probably never look at half the channels and have no reason to either.
Plus, my wife gets mad when I start flippin through the guide. If half of em weren't there, maybe I could avoid some scolding.
See, I'm doing this for my wife.

Fred, take a look at the parental control set up.

I don't have dish, just a guess.

Jim

Jesus ! Can't they just stay in there own damn country . The only people that want them here is a bunch of damn Muslins . Nuke the bastards .

The Libs want them....wonder...could we maby send the Libs over there????

Liberalisem=Canser of the mind

THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ‘Project’ – a plan to takeover the West

The Muslim Brotherhood ‘Project’ was drafted in 1982 when current tensions and terrorist activities in the Middle East were still very nascent. In many respects, The ‘Project’ is extremely prescient for outlining the bulk of Islamist action, whether by “moderate” Islamist organizations or terror groups, over the past two decades.

The Muslim Brotherhood is directly linked to a huge number of Islamic organizations such as CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, MSA, MAS and others in America to create the framework for spreading the barbaric Islamic rules in the West.

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The following tactics and techniques are among the many recommendations made in The Project. You’ll be shocked to see how many of them are going on in America right now. FYI: The Muslim Brotherhood has been officially banned in Egypt.

• Networking and coordinating actions between likeminded Islamist organizations;
• Avoiding open alliances with known terrorist organizations and individuals to maintain the appearance of “moderation”
• Infiltrating and taking over existing Muslim organizations to realign them towards the Muslim Brotherhood’s collective goals
• Using deception to mask the intended goals of Islamist actions, as long as it doesn’t conflict with shari’a law
• Avoiding social conflicts with Westerners locally, nationally or globally, that might damage the long-term ability to expand the Islamist powerbase in the West or provoke a lash back against Muslims
• Establishing financial networks to fund the work of conversion of the West, including the support of full-time administrators and workers
• Conducting surveillance, obtaining data, and establishing collection and data storage capabilities
• Putting into place a watchdog system for monitoring Western media to warn Muslims of “international plots fomented against them”
• Cultivating an Islamist intellectual community, including the establishment of think-tanks and advocacy groups, and publishing “academic” studies, to legitimize Islamist positions and to chronicle the history of Islamist movements
• Developing a comprehensive 100-year plan to advance Islamist ideology throughout the world
• Balancing international objectives with local flexibility
• Building extensive social networks of schools, hospitals and charitable organizations dedicated to Islamist ideals so that contact with the movement for Muslims in the West is constant
• Involving ideologically committed Muslims in democratically-elected institutions on all levels in the West, including government, NGOs, private organizations and labor unions
• Instrumentally using existing Western institutions until they can be converted and put into service of Islam
• Drafting Islamic constitutions, laws and policies for eventual implementation
• Avoiding conflict within the Islamist movements on all levels, including the development of processes for conflict resolution
• Instituting alliances with Western “progressive” organizations that share similar goals
• Creating autonomous “security forces” to protect Muslims in the West
• Inflaming violence and keeping Muslims living in the West “in a jihad frame of mind”
• Supporting jihad movements across the Muslim world through preaching, propaganda, personnel, funding, and technical and operational support
• Making the Palestinian cause a global wedge issue for Muslims
• Adopting the total liberation of Palestine from Israel and the creation of an Islamic state as a keystone in the plan for global Islamic domination
• Instigating a constant campaign to incite hatred by Muslims against Jews and rejecting any discussions of conciliation or coexistence with them
• Actively creating jihad terror cells within Palestine
• Linking the terrorist activities in Palestine with the global terror movement
• Collecting sufficient funds to indefinitely perpetuate and support jihad around the world

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