US News Sources Sucking, watch al-Jazeera live

[placton]

Source: al-Jazeera

"All three of the major U.S. cable news networks are prefacing breaking news on their chyrons with the words "Al-Jazeera reports." Al Jazeera was criticized for being reluctant to cover the Egyptian protests as zealously as they covered Tunisia -- and I can't speak to that, because I obviously can't watch the Arab-language version of the channel -- but their English-language network is, today, mandatory viewing for anyone interested in the world-changing events currently happening in Egypt. The American networks barely qualify as an interesting supplement."

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

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amazing - this is must see stuff, with the folks at al-Jazeera making US news source look lame.

[harun]

1. None of the Corporate Media outlets should be called "news" sources.

Thx for link.

[placton]

2. source (from salon) of quotation

from there, cited above

[Broderick]

3. thx

[WheelWalker]

4. Good coverage. Excellent journalism imo. Thank you.

[dembotoz]

5. maybe if snookie or spooky or whatever her name is

was in on the demonstration.....
then we would see coverage.

if after the demonstration she were to visit a rehab clinic....
wall to wall coverage.

The bbc is doing a fair amount of coverage

[AnOhioan]

6. thanks for linking

[MelissaB]

7. Thanks for the link.

:hi: