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Originally Posted by EscortBiz
talking about aljazera I stayed a while ago at the beverly hills hotel in california and I noticed about 5 middle eastern channels, never seen something like this in a US hotel, come to find out its owned by the sultan of brunai
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we get a bunch of middle eastern channels on digital tv here ..the original arabic Aljazera service has been been one you had to pay for separately but they started up an English language service last month and that is free to watch. They poached a couple of well known British reporters that are based in the middle east. I have only watched it a couple times just to try to get a view from another perspective. They certainly have their own slant too but not much worse than Fox..just in a different direction. However, this morning with the first reports of Saddam's death they were the best coverage. They were down on the streets when nobody else was and most of the experts and witnesses I have seen pop up on other channels were on with them first.
There are a bunch of 24 hour news channels popping up. This month the French launched one in English and I see a Russian one has popped up in our tv listings a couple days ago. It is interesting to see the same story reported by them all and see what they each pick up on as the slant.