Al Gore ,al-jazeera

[Plane]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan/03/al-jazeera-buys-current-tv

Al-Jazeera, the pan-Arab news channel which has struggled to win space on American cable television, has acquired Current TV, the channel founded by Al Gore and business partner Joel Hyatt.

Gore and Hyatt, who created the channel in 2005, confirmed the sale in a statement on Wednesday. The terms were undisclosed.

The deal gives Al-Jazeera a bridgehead into the US market: Current TV, although struggling in the ratings, is widely distributed on US cable providers. Al-Jazeera will close Current TV and replace it with a new network, Al-Jazeera America. Gore will become a member of the new network's advisory board

[Xavier_Onassis]

Why is this a bad thing?

Al Jazeera is available on Netflix,and does a more thorough job of covering what is going on in Syria, Egypt and the rest of the area.

The more diversity there is in the news, the better informed we can be.

[Plane]

It is not necessacerily a bad thing at all.

After all it is already Current TV, improvement from there doesn't seem impossible.

[sirs]

Time Warner Cable drops CurrentTV after sale
by Sandra Gonzalez

Time Warner Cable has terminated their agreement with CurrentTV following its sale to Al Jazeera.

The company said in a statement provided to EW that they will no longer be carrying the service and “are removing the service as quickly as possible.”

According to reports, the removal of the network from the TWC system began last night, shortly after news of the sale to the controversial network became public. Removal began in the New York area, and elimination from all markets is reportedly near completion.

Some have speculated that the move was political — as Al Jazeera has drawn both commendation and criticism in the past decade –  but others point to CurrentTV’s disappointing viewership, which on average hovered around 40,000. Time Warner is said to have taken an open doorway out of their existing contract.

Meanwhile, the company says it is keeping “an open mind” about carrying Al Jazeera’s new channel, currently being referred to as Al Jazeera America, which will offer a combination of new U.S programming and existing programming.

It should be noted that Al Jazeera English — the existing channel — is currently offered to Time Warner Cable customers in New York and Los Angeles, due to a third-party agreement that exists between local broadcasters and Al Jazeera. (It is also available for streaming online.)

In related news, the Wall Street Journal reports that Al Jazeera wasn’t the only one to inquire about CurrentTV’s sale. The paper reports that Glenn Beck’s The Blaze had expressed interested but, claims Beck, “we were rejected by progressive owners.”

Some of the repercussions

[Xavier_Onassis]

Al Jazeera English is available on Netflix.  So is Beck's The Blaze.

[sirs]

and.........?  Or was that just for our information?  If the latter, thanks

[Plane]

  What little I have seen of Al Jeezera so far, doesn't seem like a threat.

   Does the first admendment work in reverse?

     Do I have a right to see the media of my choice?

[Xavier_Onassis]

Freedom of the Press is Freedom of the Press.

Al Jazeera is hardly a propaganda outlet, but useful information can still be found in propaganda.

There is no such thing as a free press in reverse. You can watch Al Jazeera and judge for yourself how useful and informative it is. That is what freedom of the press means.

[Plane]

Freedom of the Press is Freedom of the Press.

Al Jazeera is hardly a propaganda outlet, but useful information can still be found in propaganda.

There is no such thing as a free press in reverse. You can watch Al Jazeera and judge for yourself how useful and informative it is. That is what freedom of the press means.

Then I should appreciate having a variety of veritys.