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Al Jazeera's Presence on PBS Alarms Some

From what I've seen, he cries more than a baby with a wet diaper. It' so fake, it's absolutely hilarious.

He does cry alot. But his show is funny.
 
The reason why it got a bad wrap in the West was because it aired the Al Qaeda tapes, but that does not make Al Jazeera an accessory to terrorism, simply a functional journalist organization. We in the West would likely not have had the opportunity to see those tapes had the Western media not recorded the Al Jazeera broadcastings and then translated them to the public.

Not everyone in the west needs them translated, i for one took a consorted effort in learning my enemy's language.
 
Not everything on the station is propaganda - it's a news channel.

Airing terrorist propaganda still makes them a terrorist propaganda network.


Sesame Street is far less "crappy" than just about any other children's show on TV, most of which are vaguely obscene and devoid of beneficial content.

If it is a really good show then it should survive on its own like any other television show/business without the aid of tax payer money.

I'd rather not have very young kids being manipulated by commercials while they watch educational television they enjoy, and so I support PBS.

Buy DVDs, use a TiVo, use a VCR(poor people's TiVo,you can record a show and hit pause during a commercial to leave out the commercials and play the video at a later time),use Youtube,download the shows from the internet(I am sure there are some websits where you can legally download children shows) or you can actually be a parent and monitor what your kids are watching by sitting in the same room as your children and change the channel when commercials or anything else objectionable comes on,TVs after all are not electronic baby sitters.

BBC or the major Israeli network

Those stations are not funded with my tax dollars,if they were I would have issue with them as well.
 
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AL JAZEERA TV: Audience Demographics and Viewership Profile

Al Jazeera claims at least 40-million viewers in the Arab world. The majority of viewers in the survey that were not living in the Arab world watch it on satellite in the United States.

Al Jazeera viewers base in Saudi Arabia is 5 times larger than United States Sponsored AlHurra's audience | Research and Studies

In contrast Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya news channels have much higher credibility amongst a much larger viewers base. The survey covered all channels viewed in Saudi Arabia be they news, music, sports and general entertainment. Radio listening patterns were also covered by the survey.

The Arab Advisors Group is pleased to announce that a major multi client survey of households in Saudi Arabia that use and view Satellite TV Channels has just been concluded. With a sample size of 134 households, the random sample survey has a 95% confidence level with a less than 9% margin of error. The survey's fieldwork in Saudi Arabia has been finalized and its final report will be ready on September 15th.

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Overall, the station's Web video stream saw a 600 percent jump in worldwide viewership during the Gaza offensive — and about 60 percent of those hits came from the United States, according to the station's internal numbers.

Outside figures also point to big gains in U.S. online interest, suggesting the war gave the Arab station its first significant chance to break into the American market.

Traffic to Al-Jazeera's main Web page, which includes both the English and Arabic sites, spiked once Israeli airstrikes began on Dec. 27, according to Amazon.com Inc.'s Alexa Web tracking site.

Gasp! Al Jazeera must be the most truthiest realist news networks out there. Ahhiuck!
 
lol @ fox news criticizing any other new's agency.
 
Al Jazeera has many different arms. The english language channel often outranks our own stations in terms of quality. There is a crazy Islamic chapter that airs shows with Mickey Mouse as a suicide bomber, but not everything from Al Jazeera is crap. As somebody else said, the english Al Jazeera is pretty much another BBC
 
I think the confusion here stems from the fact that there are 2 versions of news presented by Al-Jazerra. One of them is in Arabic, and it is pretty radical stuff, presented to the Middle East population. The other is Al-Jazeera English, which is presented to the rest of the world, and is pretty moderate stuff, compared to the Arabic broadcasts. Yes, Al-Jazeera does have a political bent in favor of its agenda. So does Tucker Carlson, yet righties on this board had no problem when he got his own PBS show a while back, and that pissed off Liberals to no end.

This brings me to what people on both the right and left are missing - Using one's intelligence. Instead of complaining about what shows are on PBS, why not watch them all, and then use your own "political filter" to decide what information suits your ideology? Being able to see ALL the information, and decide for yourself, and not just be fed information that is specific to one or two groups, is the American way.
 
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I think the confusion here stems from the fact that there are 2 versions of news presented by Al-Jazerra. One of them is in Arabic, and it is pretty radical stuff, presented to the Middle East population. The other is Al-Jazeera English, which is presented to the rest of the world, and is pretty moderate stuff, compared to the Arabic broadcasts. Yes, Al-Jazeera does have a political bent in favor of its agenda. So does Tucker Carlson, yet righties on this board had no problem when he got his own PBS show a while back, and that pissed off Liberals to no end.

This brings me to what people on both the right and left are missing - Using one's intelligence. Instead of complaining about what shows are on PBS, why not watch them all, and then use your own "political filter" to decide what information suits your ideology. Being able to see ALL the information, and decide for yourself, and not just information that is specific to one or two groups, is the American way.

But critical thinking is so hard to do danarhea;)
 
No news here, the same people who supported terrorist rhetoric against George Bush now desperately defending Al Jazeera.

The only thing more laughable is when these same people claim they are fair and balanced and are just being patriotic while they trash Western Values, George Bush, Fox News and the good ole USA.

Bravo Liberuls. :applaud
 
There is a crazy Islamic chapter that airs shows with Mickey Mouse as a suicide bomber

That show, Tomorrow's Pioneers, was on Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV. You really need to get your facts straight.
 
Al Jazeera has many different arms. The english language channel often outranks our own stations in terms of quality. There is a crazy Islamic chapter that airs shows with Mickey Mouse as a suicide bomber, but not everything from Al Jazeera is crap. As somebody else said, the english Al Jazeera is pretty much another BBC

that was NOT Al Jazeera.. gezzz That was Hamas TV.
 
libs and anti-American scum...
Excuse me? I'm anti-American scum for defending Sesame Street?
Are you saying that all those shows on PBS are so crappy that they can not survive without the aid of tax payers? Tax payers shouldn't be aiding/subsidizing failing businesses.
Well, in order to have at least some informed, educated people in this country, I'm afraid we're going to have to continue to subsidize PBS. Maybe PBS cannot survive on market factors alone, but this only shows how little the market values the availability of the quality journalism required to maintain a minimally decent democracy. Fox, CNN, MSNBC don't really have much journalism, they have entertainment.
It's hard times for real journalism. Newspapers can't survive on their own any more either. And is this only because of the availability of online sources of journalism? I think not, I think it has to do with people's preference for entertainment over news, information and education. And this is bad! And a menacing omen for our future. PBS is more needed than ever. If you manage to kill off PBS, it will mark a historic turning point: the official descent into the idiocracy.
 
Well, in order to have at least some informed, educated people in this country, I'm afraid we're going to have to continue to subsidize PBS. Maybe PBS cannot survive on market factors alone, but this only shows how little the market values the availability of the quality journalism required to maintain a minimally decent democracy. Fox, CNN, MSNBC don't really have much journalism, they have entertainment.

It's hard times for real journalism. Newspapers can't survive on their own any more either. And is this only because of the availability of online sources of journalism? I think not, I think it has to do with people's preference for entertainment over news, information and education. And this is bad! And a menacing omen for our future. PBS is more needed than ever. If you manage to kill off PBS, it will mark a historic turning point: the official descent into the idiocracy.

Oh my, :rofl on this one. I think the official descent into idiocracy began with the 2006 mid-term elections of Democrats into the majority and became a reality when Obama was elected.

Again, some of this is personal opinion but much of it based on facts. But the notion that in order to be educated one must have subsidized public TV requires some major willful denial.

I am amused when I see Liberals make this claim when Liberals who infest our education systems are the reason our children are getting "dumber." Most graduate high school without a clue about the Constitution, our laws, Capital markets or economics and barely have the mathematic or English skills beyond the sixth grade.

We are spoon fed emotional pabulum by the mainstream media and taught that only Government can succeed where free enterprise has failed; but the qualification is Government that is led and controlled by intellectual Liberals who know better what we need than we ourselves do.

Carry on; thanks for the hysterics. :rofl
 
I think the confusion here stems from the fact that there are 2 versions of news presented by Al-Jazerra. One of them is in Arabic, and it is pretty radical stuff, presented to the Middle East population. The other is Al-Jazeera English, which is presented to the rest of the world, and is pretty moderate stuff, compared to the Arabic broadcasts. Yes, Al-Jazeera does have a political bent in favor of its agenda. So does Tucker Carlson, yet righties on this board had no problem when he got his own PBS show a while back, and that pissed off Liberals to no end.
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How exactly do you know whats broadcast on the Arabic version?
 
Rotfl! Citing Fox News as a source for criticizing a media outlet is like sending your kids to the Michael Moore School of Healthy Living.
 
Oh my, :rofl on this one. I think the official descent into idiocracy began with the 2006 mid-term elections of Democrats into the majority and became a reality when Obama was elected.
I don't think that the election of a brilliant constitutional law professor is consistent with the idiocracy concept, wheras replacing informative and educational media with entertainment only media is. You may hate Obama, you can argue that he is evil or a communist, but when you people try to pretend that he is stupid or indicative of a trend towards stupidity in the wake of the Bush administration you begin to look quite silly.
But the notion that in order to be educated one must have subsidized public TV requires some major willful denial.
Democracy requires an informed and aware populous and PBS is one of the few news outlets offering the objective and in depth journalism required for this.
I am amused when I see Liberals make this claim when Liberals who infest our education systems are the reason our children are getting "dumber."
Yes, infestation. Much like vermin, yes? And what do we do with the "vermin" who infest... Yes... What indeed?
Most graduate high school without a clue about the Constitution, our laws, Capital markets or economics and barely have the mathematic or English skills beyond the sixth grade.
And your solution is less journalism and the elimination of educational television? makes sense.
 
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