01-05-2016, 05:11 AM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:I was fortunate to get Al Jazeera America for a couple of years through DirectTV, but most Americans didn't have access to it, and surprise! bad ratings equals cancellation. It wasn't perfect, but it was much better than any American corporate TV news. They did some hard-hitting documentaries (including one on the USS Liberty). They regularly did real stories about real problems around the world, not the phony distractions and manufactured-angry-drama-about-nothing that we Americans have become so used to.
It is probably NOT just a 'ratings' 'thing', given the several attacks the US Military has been tasked against Al Jazeera. Anyway, it still exists in English here http://www.aljazeera.com/watch_now/default.html#
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass