Like the BBC, Al Jazeera is a wonderful news service that gets the stories that the US stations largely ignore or paint/edit to support their own skewed world view.
Do you think Al Jazeera will ever be aired on stations in the United States?
#2
Krisken
I want to say yes, but it's hard to imagine at this point, specially with Fox News slamming the hell out of them with constant accusations of anti-Americanism and anti-semitism.
#3
Dave
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.
#4
AshburnerX
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.
#5
strawman
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.
#6
The Lovely Boehner
And it's not profitable because people are stupid and never want to learn anything out of their hateful little bubbles.
#7
AshburnerX
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.
#8
SpecialKO
I would very much like AJE to be available in the US (on tv). It's not always the most convenient for me to turn on their website livestream when I'm working on my laptop.
#9
DarkAudit
It's not it's own channel, but it has a news report every day on Link TV. Channel 375 on DirecTV or channel 9410 on Dish.
#10
@Li3n
Sure, once the socialisto-commie-muslim-babyeater-deathpanelist Obamacare program takes full effect that's all that will be on TV... well that and pro-suicide bombing disney rip-off mice.
Also, people still watch TV?! What's up with that?
