If Hillary like Al-Jazeera, and feels it is right on and the model that American news agencies should adopt, then how does she justify the fact that to listen to Al-jazeera is to listen to "Anti-American propaganda! Furthermore, how can she even think that anti-American broadcast news is real news???
See: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1308980
What do you think of Hillary's praise of this radical Muslim news station?
Shalom,
Pastor Paul :type:
Hillary says, "Al-Jazeera is Real News!"
Discussion in 'Political Debate & Discussion' started by righteousdude2, Mar 10, 2011.
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righteousdude2 Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Second, I check out Foxnews, CNN, MSNBC, OneNewsNow, CNSNews, WND, AP, and Reuters. Between all these sources, I can usually find the middle "truth."
Third, I'm able to read the news from MSNBC knowing that it has a liberal slant. I read WND and DrudgeReport knowing they have a sensationalist right-winger slant.
All that to say: Al Jazeera is, actually, a good source of news. While watching/reading, remember that it's slanted towards anti-Americanism.
But while I was in Afghanistan, Al Jazeera would have information on what was happening (such as the attacks in the capital city of Kabul in January 2009) before anyone else...and to be honest, was more accurate than CNN.
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It's also good to have around, to know what some of the radicals are talking/thinking. -
Crabtownboy Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Crabtownboy Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
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The "wow" is that you consider Fox News "extreme." :tonofbricks:
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Crabtownboy Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
I have not watched much of Al-Jazerra so I cannot make a definite statement. But from the little I have watched I have not seen anything as extreme as O'Reilly, Beck, or Hannity. As I said in my earlier post I have been surprised that Al-Jazerra is not really extreme. -
What Hillary is actually saying here is that the government along with the mass corporate media is losing the information war due their rapidly declining ability to shape public perceptions (dictate reality) at this present time.
In other words the old world wide corporate propaganda machine and all it's highly polished and professional talking heads are losing the last shred of credibility they had.
It turns out that if given a choice people the world over prefer real news over endless govenment and corporate propaganda and disinformation.
Conclusion, the globalists are losing the info war badly and they are very worried about it. :smilewinkgrin: -
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a tacit admission during a U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities committee meeting yesterday, arguing that the State Department needs more money because the US military-industrial complex is “losing the information war” to the likes of Russia Today and Al Jazeera due to the US corporate media having completely abandoned “real news”. SOURCE -
InTheLight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
"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."
Based on the above quote I reluctantly have to agree with Hillary (I hate that when that happens!). Take a look at the prime time schedule of the U.S. "news" channels--MSNBC, FOX, CNN, etc.
Chris Mathews, Lawrence O'Donnell, Rachel Maddow
Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Greta VanSustern
Eliot Spitzer, Piers Morgan, Anderson Cooper
Basically commentary and guests with opinions punctuated with commercials every 6 minutes. There is very little hard news presented in a news reporting format.
On the other hand, during the recent and ongoing unrest in the Arab nations you could tune in to Al-Jazeera and get news reporting. Yeah, it's got their slant on things based on what they cover, but you are getting news reporting. -
Comparing someone or something to Aljazeera is like comparing them to Hitler. If you cannot do better than that you have no real argument.
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Crabtownboy Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Have you ever watched Al Jazeera?
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Fox News is slanted to the right.
MSNBC is slanted to the left.
Al Jazeera is slanted towards radical islam.
Doesn't mean I won't watch it; just means that I have my correct filters in place when I do...just like when I read/watch CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Drudge Report, etc. -
The reality is this. The major mega corporations (5 or 6 of them) own and control the whole U.S. mass media. They give us "both sides" so we'll have something to keep us all divided. Leftie against rightie.
They like it that way. While we're so busy worrying about what the "other side" is doing we don't have time to figure out who or what the real threat to these United States is.
Wake up y'all! They're playing one side against the other. Age old trick, it's called divide and conquer and we're still falling for it. All the "filters" in the world isn't going to do any good as long as we let them keep us divided!
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Crabtownboy Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
The talking heads certainly do not report news, but do give outrageous opinions that only contribute to the division and mis-education of people
And why I am on this topic, it irritates me greatly when I occasionally watch a program where a politician is interviewed by a panel who proudly proclaim, "We ask the tough questions," to see this panel start a line of questioning, the politician or other person give a trite answer and then the panel moves away without nailing the person they are interviewing to the wall for the ridiculous answer. I expect the problem is that if they really asked the "tough questions" no one would come on their program ... thus the programs simply become platforms for the 'guests' to spout their agenda without having to really answer any questions of merit or really explaining in depth what they are advocating.
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At least they don't spend half their time talking about Justin Beiber et al.
This thread got me motivated to have a look. It may be slanted toward an Islamic agenda, but it certainly is 'real news.' -
Crabtownboy Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
I just googled Justin. Yes, same type of non-important person that the media follows and avoids real news.
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InTheLight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Crabtownboy Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
You can listen to BBC on many PBS radio stations and watch on many PBS television stations.
Duetsche Welle is also on a number of PBS stations.
http://www.dw-world.de/
http://www.bbc.com/
In my reply you quoted I was thinking of networks in the USA.
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