Al Jazeera Buys Current TV

[rareboy]

I was joking about the newspapers comment. It was a Sarah Palin reference.

I kinda miss her. She's a conservative diva many gay conservative bois revere.

No. She is a homophobic, nasty piece of work that only you would rub your 'boi' clit for. no self respecting conservative, homosexual male would see her for anything other than what she really is.

 

[White Eagle]

Oh bugger. You beat me to it!

bugger? Thank you, a new word for my Aussie dictionary.
Crikey!

 

[Jack Springer]

I read an article about this today. I think Al J is owned by Qatar enterprise of some sort and that named jumped out at me and low and behold I been watching tennis from there all week. Qatar is in big letters on the court, aint that a trip. they got their hands in everything.

The government of Qatar owns Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera news has been broadcast on LINK for some time. Similar to how the BBC News is broadcast on some PBS stations.

.. .the funny part --- Al Gore sold out to BIG OIL. What a hypocrite.

The other part that is quite interesting is that LIBERAL TV failed again. The liberal version of the news is hard to sell to the American people.

 

[evanrick]

JQ, Al JAzeera is NOT owned by Muslim fundamentalists. So nobody is in cahoots with anyone. Most of their anchors on their English news station are British. Take the red herrings somewhere else.

And conservatives are the ones who have more in common with the regimes in Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Nice ATTEMPT, but a major fail.

Id have to say this is more accurate to reality.

 

[rareboy]

The government of Qatar owns Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera news has been broadcast on LINK for some time. Similar to how the BBC News is broadcast on some PBS stations.

.. .the funny part --- Al Gore sold out to BIG OIL. What a hypocrite.

The other part that is quite interesting is that LIBERAL TV failed again. The liberal version of the news is hard to sell to the American people.

Oh for Fuck's sake.

Which is it?

A. The TV news media is a vast liberal conspiracy and only FOX tells its tiny audience of viewers the truth?

B. There is no liberal bias in the media at all and FOX is just bullshitting its low info demographic with the conspiracy theory?

 

[Telstra]

I like Al Jazeera.
They are much much better and fair than Fox news.

 

[chance1]

^ How much is Rupert Murdoch worth...speaking of shakedowns?

LOL

Rupert provides value to his cable operators

Big diff

 

[rareboy]

So will Al Jazeera.

Certainly they must have felt that the distribution groundwork that GoreCo. laid down was worth the price they paid for it.

 

[Kulindahr]

From Al G to Al J

Sorta in the fam

LOL

Cute.

 

[vulgar_newcomer]

Under the category ....

"NO, you cannot make this shit up"

Al Jazeera has purchased Current TV from the man who invented the internet ...... Al Gore

Why not you make us shit all the time. You start your post with a lie, and a old one.

This myth was debunked over 5 yrs ago and yet it is still spread as a big lie by those wanting to impress other non critical thinkers with their standard bullshit. Might work on the old right wingers at home as well in 2013 as it did in 2012 or in 2009, but its bullshit then and now.

Gore did not say he "invented" the Internet. In the March 9, 1999, interview on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer that gave rise to the myth, Gore actually said: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

http://mediamatters.org/research/2007/01/16/media-perpetuate-myth-that-gore-claimed-to-have/137743

 

[rareboy]

Why not you make us shit all the time. You start your post with a lie, and a old one.

This myth was debunked over 5 yrs ago and yet it is still spread as a big lie by those wanting to impress other non critical thinkers with their standard bullshit. Might work on the old right wingers at home as well in 2013 as it did in 2012 or in 2009, but its bullshit then and now.



http://mediamatters.org/research/2007/01/16/media-perpetuate-myth-that-gore-claimed-to-have/137743

There's many a slip twixt S and P.

But I can't think of a time when Chance has made me fill my pants because of anything he has posted.

lol

 

[JayHawk]

Why not you make us shit all the time. You start your post with a lie, and a old one.

This myth was debunked over 5 yrs ago and yet it is still spread as a big lie by those wanting to impress other non critical thinkers with their standard bullshit. Might work on the old right wingers at home as well in 2013 as it did in 2012 or in 2009, but its bullshit then and now.



http://mediamatters.org/research/2007/01/16/media-perpetuate-myth-that-gore-claimed-to-have/137743

DARPA created the internet. The first line was a jab at Al Gore... not intended to be taken seriously. Kinda like saying the Pope, you know the pedophile witness protection guy.... How often is Roosevelt credited with creating the atom bomb because he authorized the project? Or is that Oppenheimer? Can you imagine a non-technical bureaucrat taking credit for any invention or technical innovation?

 

[palemale]

LOL

Rupert provides value to his cable operators

Big diff

It would be good if he would also provide some value to his cable viewers. You know, actual journalism, informed commentary, factual reporting, something along those lines.

 

[EastMed]

I like Al Jazeera.
They are much much better and fair than Fox news.

Damning with faint praise!

 

[Corny]

Re: Gore Sells Current TV to Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera English does a lot of investigative reporting that Fox News, CNN and other American stations abandoned years ago.

This. Plenty of times now, Al Jazeera has been a better news source than many others.

 

[xbuzzerx]

Re: Gore Sells Current TV to Al Jazeera

The government of Qatar owns Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera news has been broadcast on LINK for some time. Similar to how the BBC News is broadcast on some PBS stations.

.. .the funny part --- Al Gore sold out to BIG OIL. What a hypocrite.

The other part that is quite interesting is that LIBERAL TV failed again. The liberal version of the news is hard to sell to the American people.

The government of Qatar owns Al Jazeera so Al Gore selling anything to that entire region of the world = he's selling out to big oil?

By that same logic, is any progressive or liberal who takes any money from any job in the U.S. selling out to western imperialism?

I love the ridiculous goalposts you set up to basically be able to say any left winger is either miserably incompetent or a hypocrite or both. Which by the way is all that you are doing. If you want to actually talk about hypocrisy why don't you talk about something like Bush claiming he was running a war against Islamic fundamentalist while he was kissing the cheeks and doing big oil business with the guys funding it?

Oh for Fuck's sake.

Which is it?

A. The TV news media is a vast liberal conspiracy and only FOX tells its tiny audience of viewers the truth?

B. There is no liberal bias in the media at all and FOX is just bullshitting its low info demographic with the conspiracy theory?

Exactly what I was going to say. Somebody just let slip that the whole "the media is left-wing-biased except for Fox" myth is known to by myth even to the far right. Jack is not very good at histrionics.

 

[Jack Springer]

Why not you make us shit all the time. You start your post with a lie, and a old one.

This myth was debunked over 5 yrs ago and yet it is still spread as a big lie by those wanting to impress other non critical thinkers with their standard bullshit. Might work on the old right wingers at home as well in 2013 as it did in 2012 or in 2009, but its bullshit then and now.



http://mediamatters.org/research/2007/01/16/media-perpetuate-myth-that-gore-claimed-to-have/137743

Invented vs. created, LOL

Chill man, created sounds like he made the Internet out of nothing -- even more bizarre.

I am happy that he wasn't able to make the sale until after January 1 -- now he has to pay higher taxes on that income.

 

[FuryOfFirestorm]

The right wingers don't like Al Jazeera because exactly that... conservatives only want people to watch Fox News. They are afraid of other perspectives.

Didn't you get the memo, GC? Foreign brown people that don't speak English are scary and everyone in the Middle East are terrorists that hate 'Murica!

 

[rareboy]

Re: Gore Sells Current TV to Al Jazeera

The government of Qatar owns Al Jazeera so Al Gore selling anything to that entire region of the world = he's selling out to big oil?

By that same logic, is any progressive or liberal who takes any money from any job in the U.S. selling out to western imperialism?

I love the ridiculous goalposts you set up to basically be able to say any left winger is either miserably incompetent or a hypocrite or both. Which by the way is all that you are doing. If you want to actually talk about hypocrisy why don't you talk about something like Bush claiming he was running a war against Islamic fundamentalist while he was kissing the cheeks and doing big oil business with the guys funding it?



Exactly what I was going to say. Somebody just let slip that the whole "the media is left-wing-biased except for Fox" myth is known to by myth even to the far right. Jack is not very good at histrionics.

Absofuckinglutely.

Saudi Arabia is the heartland of the fundamentalist Wahabist Islam that appeals to atavisic tribal goat herders.

But that never stopped Bush and the rest of the industrial military complex from keeping their tongues firmly glued to the Saudi 'royal' fart boxes.

 

[andysayshi]

For the record, Al Jazeera is a well respected news organisation that shows very little bias. For that reason alone, it should be a welcome addition to news media in the US.