In Other News....

**SageTree** · 10-11-2010, 04:07 PM

English Aljazeera
The Listening Post

I would call this media analysis, and in a way.... that IS news in unto itself.

Hope you enjoy or find this useful.

Here are a few examples of what's up with these folks.

YouTube - Listening Post-The year's top news stories-Jan 02 09-Part 1

In Kind,
SageTree

SmokeaJoint · 10-11-2010, 04:36 PM

My only question is, whats the bias? In other words, whats the affiliation?

Bearsy · 10-11-2010, 04:43 PM

I like AJE; It's probably the most unbiased news source available. I may be wrong but it seems that they're rather objective when reporting.

SmokeaJoint · 10-11-2010, 04:44 PM

Well hell yeah then!

**SageTree** · 10-11-2010, 04:46 PM

Al Jazeera English

Quote:

formally by Al Jazeera English International Television News Channel (Arabic: الجزيرة الإنجليزية‎) is a 24-hour English-language news and current affairs TV channel headquartered in Doha, Qatar. It is the sister channel of the Arabic-language Al Jazeera.

The station broadcasts news features and analysis, documentaries, live debates, current affairs, business, technology, and sports. The station claims to be the first global high-definition television network.

Al Jazeera English is the world's first English-language news channel headquartered in the Middle East. The channel aims to provide both a regional voice and a global perspective to a potential world audience of over one billion English speakers who don't have an Anglo-American worldview. Instead of being run under central command, news management rotates around broadcasting centers in Kuala Lumpur, Doha, London and Washington D.C. Al Jazeera English is one of the few foreign media outlets to have agencies in Gaza and Harare.

The network's stated objective is "to give voice to untold stories, promote debate, and challenge established perceptions."

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Philosophy

Al Jazeera English has stated objectives of emphasizing news from the developing world, of "reversing the North to South flow of information" and of "setting the news agenda" (also the channel's slogan). Some observers, including media scholar Adel Iskandar, have commented that this focus can be seen, in the eyes of Western viewers, as casting Al Jazeera English as a global "alternative" news network, though the entire Al Jazeera brand has been heavily mainstreamed in many parts of the world. Other Al Jazeera English slogans and catchphrases include: "All the News | All the Time", "Fearless Journalism" and "If it's newsworthy, it gets on air, whether it's Bush or Bin Laden." Al Jazeera's Code of Ethics mirrors some of these statements. The English brand identity and its "EVERY ANGLE | EVERY SIDE" promotional positioning was led by Director of Creative, Morgan Almeida, "to extend the Arabic heritage in a language familiar to diverse global audiences".

Just check out a story and see if you think it's crazy.

**SageTree** · 10-11-2010, 05:04 PM

!!1 CHEERS TERR-BEAR!!!!

Now what if.... what iffff they actually had a few good points

**SageTree** · 10-11-2010, 05:32 PM

^
heh... rhetorical question

Not rhetorical questions:

How often they update the page with new shows?
Is this what a show would look like. I haven't have TV for years.
It always seems current, haven't ever checked frequency of it.
I don't check in with stuff everyday.
Can you add some intel on that question?

Kompressor · 10-11-2010, 07:04 PM

Oh noes J will think you all are islam oriented now

SmokeaJoint · 10-11-2010, 07:16 PM

Ooh the controversy!!

**SageTree** · 10-11-2010, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Kompressor

Oh noes J will think you all are islam oriented now

Well, ALL oriented wouldn't be true now

Here is "Fault Lines" another news show on Aljazeera.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV0Xv...mbedded#at=111

kamikazi89 · 10-12-2010, 06:55 AM

i found this disheartening
Trails from the East Episode 11: Israel - Watch Online! | Link TV

B'Tselem - Archive

John F. Kerry · 10-12-2010, 08:36 AM

i wonder if you guys would say the same things about haaretz or the jerusalem post online...

no those arent objective, because they dont have an arabic name

**SageTree** · 10-12-2010, 08:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John F. Kerry

i wonder if you guys would say the same things about haaretz or the jerusalem post online...

no those arent objective, because they dont have an arabic name

Well John, thanks for the odd way to suggest a varied material, this is why sharing is good.

Cheers.

kamikazi89 · 10-12-2010, 09:20 AM

i heart liberal jews..you can glean just enough to be considered a potential terrorist sympathzer and barred from free travel

**SageTree** · 10-12-2010, 09:31 AM

BBC:" Birth of Israel" seem to not be scared to go there either, with either side though. We 'know' the Muslims are 'terrorist'... so it's sort of refreshing to hear the world terrorist and freedom fighter being mixed and minced into the groups at hand for a change.

I am not against anyone here, I'd like to say. I'm for lasting peace and hearing many perspectives on the issue. They're welcomed in my home. I don't have to agree or disagree... but as long as we can all talk together then I feel there is at least head way from individual to individual.

And that is a start.

kamikazi89 · 10-12-2010, 09:40 AM

dialouge cannot be divorced from reality..and that is, nationalism matted with religous fervor can come to no good, because at it's core is chauvinism and a profound sense of entitlement(politcal ly) carried out through the means of the State*media and militia

John F. Kerry · 10-12-2010, 09:44 AM

this isnt why you like the bbc is it ?

"An internal British Broadcasting Corporation memo reveals senior figures admitted the national news agency was guilty of promoting left-wing views and anti-Christian sentiment.

News of the memo, reported by British media, comes as the BBC continues to struggle against claims of biased reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and distorted coverage of the global fight against terror, reports the Israeli YnetNews.com.

The admissions of bias were made at a recent "impartiality" summit the BBC held. Most executives admitted the corporation's representation of homosexuals and ethnic minorities was unbalanced and disproportionate, YnetNews.com said. The British news agency, the report said, leaned too strongly towards political correctness, the overt promotion of multiculturalism, anti-Americanism and discrimination against the countryside. "

"At the summit, executives were given a fictitious scenario in which they were asked to make a judgment.

In the illustration, Jewish comedian Sasha Baron Cohen would participate in a studio program in which guests were allowed to symbolically throw in a garbage bin things they hated.

What would you do, the executives were asked, if Cohen decided to throw kosher food, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bible and the Quran in the trash.

Everything would be allowed, the executives said, except for the Quran, for fear of offending the British Muslim community. "

BBC confesses bias on religion, politics

....obviously almost all news is biased, you can almost tell what a persons bias is by which news source they think is unbiased.

John F. Kerry · 10-12-2010, 09:46 AM

im pretty sure its official bbc policy to refer to the founding of israel, approved by the united nations, as the "nakhbah".... lol .

im just throwing open the shades here, believe whatever you want, i hardly care.

**SageTree** · 10-12-2010, 09:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kamikazi89

dialouge cannot be divorced from reality..and that is, nationalism matted with religous fervor can come to no good, because at it's core is chauvinism and a profound sense of entitlement(politcal ly) carried out through the means of the State*media and militia

So like... you're telling me that news might not actually be the gospel?!!!

I don't know man.... sounds a little ....*makes wavey motion with my hand*

ya' know..???

SageTree

SmokeaJoint · 10-12-2010, 09:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John F. Kerry

....obviously almost all news is biased, you can almost tell what a persons bias is by which news source they think is unbiased.

Hence why I said whats the bias/affliliation. Cuz if life has taught me anything, its that everyone has an agenda.

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SageTree ~Kalyāṇa-mitrā~ Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: In Love Posts: 23,414 Blog Entries: 26 Thanks: 13,070 Thanked 6,769 Times in 4,664 Posts	^ heh... rhetorical question Not rhetorical questions: How often they update the page with new shows? Is this what a show would look like. I haven't have TV for years. It always seems current, haven't ever checked frequency of it. I don't check in with stuff everyday. Can you add some intel on that question? __________________ "What's oppressive is letting your life be confined by old definitions of what everything is." -Zen Meister my_scatterheart YaHooka is.... Cannabis lovers from around the world pulling up a comfy chair, picking up a vaporizer, a bong, a brownie, a pipe, or a joint, getting high, stoned, buzzed or healthy. Uniting our minds in conversation...While Portraying a Positive Image of marijuana and marijuana users to the world. Treat your fellow YaHookans with kindness,respect and tolerance.

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SageTree ~Kalyāṇa-mitrā~ Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: In Love Posts: 23,414 Blog Entries: 26 Thanks: 13,070 Thanked 6,769 Times in 4,664 Posts	BBC:" Birth of Israel" seem to not be scared to go there either, with either side though. We 'know' the Muslims are 'terrorist'... so it's sort of refreshing to hear the world terrorist and freedom fighter being mixed and minced into the groups at hand for a change. I am not against anyone here, I'd like to say. I'm for lasting peace and hearing many perspectives on the issue. They're welcomed in my home. I don't have to agree or disagree... but as long as we can all talk together then I feel there is at least head way from individual to individual. And that is a start. __________________ "What's oppressive is letting your life be confined by old definitions of what everything is." -Zen Meister my_scatterheart YaHooka is.... Cannabis lovers from around the world pulling up a comfy chair, picking up a vaporizer, a bong, a brownie, a pipe, or a joint, getting high, stoned, buzzed or healthy. Uniting our minds in conversation...While Portraying a Positive Image of marijuana and marijuana users to the world. Treat your fellow YaHookans with kindness,respect and tolerance.

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