Al Jzaeera is for sale

[orleans]

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Al Jazeera 'for sale' is a sad sign for all

By Linda S. Heard

Al-Jazeerah, February 2, 2005

Gulf News, Feb 1, 2005

http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2005%20Opinion%20Editorials/February/2%20o/Al%20Jazeera%20for%20sale%20is%20a%20sad%20sign%20for%20all%20By%20Linda%20S%20Heard.htm

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The day that Al Jazeera is closed down or sold off will be a sad one.

In the way that Rupert Murdoch's "fair and balanced" Fox News reflects the views of conservative right-wingers portraying American soldiers in Iraq as cuddly do-gooders, Al Jazeera doesn't shrink from showing the results of their handiwork.

(gee, maybe murdoch will buy it and make it fair and balanced!)

[Blue_State_Elitist]

1. This is unfortunate.

I recommend that all Duers see the documentary "Control Room." It really gives a look into what the American media has done during this war and the news that Al-Jazeerah was trying to make known.

[PartyPooper]

2. Gee, maybe George Soros or Ted Turner will buy it.

:shrug:

[MeDeMax]

7. someone will buy it or keep it afloat period

it is clearly a very effective voice of dissent that has no qualms about exposing stories the "sanitized" western media won't touch.

It is a media machinery with, never before believed possible, credibility in the middle east.

The BBC has been operational for decades without advertisers, 10 million viewers ponying up $5 a piece will keep it solvent so someone will find a way to keep it going.

[AP]

3. I have a feeling Time-Warner will buy it.

The first time I ever heard of Al J. was on CNN and I wondered why they were promoting a competittor, and then I thought, because they're probably going to buy it if it succeeds.

[Goldom]

4. are you sure this is real?

I saw an almost identical post the other day and after a long while realized it was a joke...

[orleans]

11. this is a snip from news hounds

whose motto is: "we watch fox so you don't have to" :


http://www.newshounds.us/2005/01/30/al_jazeera_for_sale.php

dated january 30 2005

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Al Jazeera For Sale?
This morning at 1:35 AM, the FOX News webcrawl announced that the government of Qatar - buckling to pressure from the Bush administration - has agreed to sell Al Jazeera to a private company. The crawl went on to say that the Bush administration doubts that private ownership of the station will improve the station's anti-American bias. Raise your hand if you think Rupert Murdoch will make a bid for it!!

(looks like it's real...)

[Jim Sagle]

5. Who'd buy it? It ain't worth two shits much less two cents.

[dxdem]

6. I couldn't imagine

any large media company buying AJ. Too much stigma attached. I enjoy reading it now and then.

[RockStar]

8. THAT IS NOT THE REAL ONE/Here - http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage

This is the real one http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage

[Dirk39]

9. It needs to be privatized...

Privatization means freedom. Freedom means democracy. Democracy means fair and balanced fashism.
I love the free market and pray to the freedom market every single minute I don't sleep, work or watch Fox-TV.

I wanna be like you,

Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[Polemicist]

10. Wanna bet the CIA puts in a bid?

That's a no brainer.