Al Jazeera English - WIll it ever be in the US?
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And that, I think, is the problem. Morons hear Al Jazeera and immediately think they are the Fox News of the Muslim world and anti-American. The thing is that they are not, but they don't sugar coat everything in a jingoistic pro-American outlook as our news services do. If the US does something bad, AJ says it.
I don't see rednecks allowing this to happen.
I don't see rednecks allowing this to happen.
It IS in the US, but in only three places: Washington D.C., Burlington, Vt., and Toledo, Ohio. I'm pretty sure the only reason it's on in Toledo is because we have such a huge African/Middle Eastern immigrant population there.
It's not aired on public broadcasting in the US because it wouldn't be profitable to do so. Whoever wants to broadcast it has to pay for the FCC license renewal, pay engineers, advertising personel, etc, and they have to somehow get companies to advertise on the station to keep it afloat.
And it's not profitable because people are stupid and never want to learn anything out of their hateful little bubbles.
It's still better than turning it into another BBC America. Last time I checked, Star Trek: The Next Generation and The X-Files aren't British shows. Yet they are on ALL THE TIME.
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