"Al-Jazeera English" to launch

there are 50 million mexicans here and most cable networks only have 1 or 2 spanish networks.

cable networks carry all the 24/7 news channels they can get, don't they?

Not here, they don't. Worldlink is one of the two channels I really miss after switching from DirecTV to cable.

*Outside the US, obviously.

hardcore.

Worldlink is great. What was the other one?

far out

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1947965,00.html

http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901061106-1551994-3,00.html

Al-Jazeera executives stress that the two channels will remain separate, yet in the next breath say they will share crews, news footage and even on-air journalists on some occasions. According to aji news director Steve Clark, editors from both channels are trying to come up with a common mission statement and code of conduct, including an agreement concerning the use of words such as terrorist, suicide bomber and invader. While aji says it will strictly avoid "martyr" to describe casualties of conflict, the Arabic channel continues to use the term when describing Palestinians killed in clashes with Israeli forces."

No it doesn't. Anyway, laying guidelines as to how sensitive words should be used (ie what most news services do) doesn't equal "banning".

I was just slightly mis-rembering something I read in Time two weeks ago - as the link above says, AJ (doha version) uses the term "martyr" to describe Palestinian casaulties in clashes with Israeli forces. Which I think is just as whacked as Fox News setting off party poppers when Saddam gets sentenced to hang.

And the English language version's bosses have said they will, again quoting from Time, "strictly avoid" using the word in that context.

S'all I'm saying. No hidden agendas here, just idle trivia.

this is because basil fawlty's line, 'do i detect the scent of burning martyr?' is one of my stock phrases -- i don't think 'martyr' has heroic connotations!

ah, but if peter cook had never been born, frost would've drowned in a swimming poolin the 1960s...

xpost, exactly Enrique.

Studio is horrid, horrible sweeping long shots of unmoored anchor people walking awkwardly around a moodily lit soundstage, using their hands a lot

Quite a story to start the first broadcast day with!

are telewest/ntl picking this up? we don't even get fox at the mo, only bbc, cnn and msnbc. oh and euronews...

Great accidental funny: break to advert which opens behind the pastrami counter at Katz's. Gah I really wanted some mustard on that.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2454612,00.html#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=Britain

But Hello Sunshine says they use martyr to mean suicide bomber! Could Time magazine be lying?

from the above link:

Then on to another Middle Eastern tragedy, Darfur. There was no siding with Sudan on this one: the reporter, Andrew Simmons, was as hard-hitting as the pictures of the refugees and the squalor,

Sudan is the Middle East now? has it MOVED?

the headline on that story not only sits very oddly with the story itself - which says nothing about slickness and has nothing but praise for the hard-hitting news al-j was delivering on its first day - but it makes me think the editor had two angles poised to smash down upon al-j's head, depending on what the verdict was: if al-j ran nothing but hard news, it would be "depressing." if it was full of entertainment-tonight style camera angles and cheekbones, it would be "slick." but it had both! BAFF with both hands!

In the sense that the Middle East = Arab Countries + Iran, then Sudan is in it.

As I've already pointed out above, my first post was based on remembering an article from two weeks earlier. I then tracked down the article, in which it was clear that martyr is used to describe "Palestinians killed in clashes with Israeli forces," not suicide bombers.

Technically it's still somewhat shonky, I just watched a report from chile with inverted field order which I almost had to turn off. I hope they get over teething troubles like this soon.

I'm much more interested in watching this at home than BBC world/news24 or CNN, which only really get watched by me in hotel rooms.

i think i have identified your problem!

Real Player req.

I really appreciate how they do the weather report. The serene music-only break while you view computer-clouds and degrees hovering over the landscape gives your head a break to digest the info for a minute. Mud-volcanos! People shot while trying to farm olives! An African woman reporting on African issues! People melting motherboards! Aaah, Celsius. Aaah, cumulus.

WTF.

This station is this news junkie's wet dream --- a programme that looks at the "other side" of the story, the underbelly of the market, without the embarrassing lack of production values of Democracy Now! and its ilk.

Al Jazeera America is on in NYC, just launched. Curious to see if it's as solid as advertised.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/business/media/al-jazeera-america-promises-a-more-sober-look-at-the-news.html

they are wayyyy more polished than at launch, that's for sure!

oh hang on - i didn't realize it's NOT al-j english? it's some new thing for americans?

Yep, we got our own channel. They bought out Current TV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_America

The channel is headquartered and run from studios on the first floor of the New Yorker Hotel and the Manhattan Center in New York City. It will also have 12 bureaus in cities like Washington, D.C. at the Newseum, Chicago, Detroit, Nashville, Los Angeles, Seattle, New Orleans, Dallas, Denver, Miami, and San Francisco (the headquarters of Current TV).

al_jazeera is literally the only news channel i can remotely stomach

I guess I assumed it would mainly be news about the rest of the world but that many US bureaus (bureaux?) makes me think they'll be doing a lot of domestic reporting too? (Of course a "bureau" can be like, a guy)

russia today >>>>>

al-jazeera, even. don't want to make it sound like a person's internet name

russia today link?

i've been watching the warm up promo for the past hour in the background while working; it is very much gonna be about domestic reporting if you believe their hype

imago i am pretty sure that post was a joke

there's a lot of familiar names popping up: john seigenthaler, soledad o'brien, ali velshi

My dad watches Russia Today religiously.

The TV station is generally good. The website is more variable.

They're officially live now. 1750 on Fios NYC for HD

russia today >>>>>

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armenian qt on russia today talking abt greenpeace rn >>>>>>>>

what, in the alacrity of her opinions? surely u wdnt judge her on any other criteria

question time?

Ha, I was thinking it was strange they'd be running Armenian Question Time for a second there too.

then an extended puffpiece about robert reich who has now doneome populist documentary the trailer for which foregrounds his slight stature, he is 4'10 apparently? idk

larry king is 410

talking head on RT now claiming putin should have got the nobel peace prize