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placton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-11 01:06 PM
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US News Sources Sucking, watch al-Jazeera live
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/



amazing - this is must see stuff, with the folks at al-Jazeera making US news source look lame.
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harun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-11 01:07 PM
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1. None of the Corporate Media outlets should be called "news" sources.
Thx for link.
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placton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-11 01:14 PM
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2. source (from salon) of quotation
from there, cited above
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Broderick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-11 01:15 PM
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3. thx
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WheelWalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-11 01:29 PM
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4. Good coverage. Excellent journalism imo. Thank you.
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dembotoz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-11 01:33 PM
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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
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AnOhioan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-11 02:45 PM
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6. thanks for linking
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-11 03:35 PM
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7. Thanks for the link.
:hi:
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