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03 March 2011

Hillary... oh, snap! In fact viewership of al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it’s real news. You may not agree with it, but you feel like you’re getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news which, you know, is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners.

post by: Joe Beese at: 10:21 | 7 comments

I just posted this very link on Twitter. The timing of this is excellent, as Al Jazeera has been in talks with Comcast to finally be broadcast in the US. It's long overdue.

posted by BoringPostcards 03 March | 10:40

This is very cool. . .

posted by danf 03 March | 10:55

I would love to have an actual cable news channel to watch again. I used to love CNN but in last decade it's become totally unwatchable.

posted by octothorpe 03 March | 11:05

So true. It's nice to hear important people saying it.

posted by rmless2 03 March | 12:04

Will having al Jazeera news on US TV get rid of Nancy Grace? If so, I'm all for it.

posted by deborah 03 March | 16:07

She is so right. I'm glad someone besides Jon Stewart pointed this out.

posted by bearwife 03 March | 19:39

AJE has utterly handed all of US cable news their collective asses with the unrest in the ME and N. Africa. That there's an effective blackout of them in all but a very few markets is testament to the fact that the cable oligopoly in the US needs to be beaten back to the stone age.

posted by tortillathehun 03 March | 23:16

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