You might be unaware even CNN has 2 (actually 3 if you count HLN) English language networks. We see CNN in the US but outside of the US they have a different network called CNN International.
I am very aware of this and understand it fully since CNN is an American news channel first, and not started as an international channel. Al Jazzera started off the bat as an international channel, first in Arabic, then English and then Spanish.
I think its less about staking a claim in the US advertising market and more about softening American attitudes toward the Middle East, subtly creating distance in the American and Israeli friendship and presenting oil as the best thing to happen to America since the invention of the industrial electric bread slicer.
Sorry but that could have been easily with Al Jazzera in English. Hell it is often very Israel friendly, having Israeli commentators and so on very regularly. It also gives a voice to the dissidents in Israel who are not okay with the way Israel acts. And if they were just going to be a propoganda machine to make American's like the Middle East more.. then why the hell call it Al Jazzera... that is one of the worst brands in the US.
Unlike Fox News Channel where the Saudi Royal Family only has minority ownership, the Qatari Royal Family owns Aljazeera 100%.
And so what? Fox News is far far far more friendly towards friendly governments in the middle east, and al Jazerra is always on their asses, even the Qatari Royal Family.
The level to which they can subtly influence Americans against their historic loyalty to Israel is somewhat limited on Fox News. They do however seem to be totally on board in pushing maintaining the oil only agenda as well as subtle support where possible for traditional Middle Eastern dictator rule in their Arab Spring coverage that helps keep US policy at least among conservatives leaning toward the interests of the Royal Family via molding the positions of conservative voters.
Eh, so go totally against the present editorial line of Al Jazzera in English and Arabic? Have you even seen Al Jazzera in English lately? They are giving hell to both the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian Military Junta. They were never fans of the Muslim Brotherhood because of the Brotherhoods attitudes towards a free press and especially Al Jazzera, and they are exposing both the previous Mubarak regime's media handling and the present Junta.. not to mention the Brotherhoods.
Aljazreera, I'm assuming will take it a step further by not only encouraging the continuance of the oil monopoly using every argument they
Okay, you have not seen Al Jazzera then. In no way do they promote the continuance of the oil monopoly.. in fact they are doing the opposite. They just had a great documentary about the 7 sisters, exposing the role of big oil in world and middle east politics over the last 100 years. Plus the owners.. Qatar has no oil. It has on the other hand a buttload of gas.
or anybody else has ever thought of but also will likely portray Israel as a menace to the Middle East and probably to a more center audience.
So tell the truth? Look, lets make this clear.. both sides are at fault and Al Jazzera in English goes out of its way to show this. They do not side with the Palestinians exclusively, nor the Israelis. That is why both sides hate them. I see more Israeli's on Al Jazzera than CNN, Sky, and other stations almost combined. That American news outlets never show the Palestinian side of the story is their fault, and maybe it will shock Americans when they watch AL Jazzera America.. that they actually get both sides of the story.... of course the rabid pro-Israeli fanboys will call this anti-Israeli, just as they do with the BBC but hey.. screw them, they are 50% of the problem in the first place.
We'll only know after we see it over time, of course. I'm pretty sure phase one however will be to build trust so I expect nothing dramatically biased until a relationship of trust is established. They might even come up with some clever Slogans like "Impartial and Fair" or "We Present The Facts, You Make Up Your Own Mind", then once loyalty and trust is established they can be safe to turn up the bias to full throttle and because they will by then be trusted, their devoted audience will actually think the opinion molding propaganda they're being fed its actually objectivity at its finest.
Holly crap.. your mind is made up... /clap Rumsfeld and his bogus attacks on the channel under Bush. Al J will have a hard time, no doubt about that, since most people already think they are a terrorist news channel and that is despite 99% of Americans never seeing a single minute of the channel. Pathetic.
I find it astounding that around a decade after freely carrying coded Osama Bin Laden communiques to Al Qaeda terrorist cells around the world
What? Lies lol.. Bush era bull**** lies. Al Jazzera in English never did that, and it is debateable if the Arabic version did, since the only source we have for this, is the highly discredited Bush administration.. you know the guys who spied on everyone and put people in jail without a trial..
on the next steps on how and where to kill Americans and which American interests to target to their Middle Eastern audience and then calling it news, they actually now have an American TV channel.
More lies. Seriously, since when is reporting the news with facts suddenly "telling enemies on how and where to kill Americans"? Did you say the same when GOP members release sensitive information to the public or when Valerie Palme was outed by a vindictive Bush administration?
I guess there's very little limit on what money can buy when you have hundreds of thousands of Americans handing their money over to them at gas pumps across America.
Qatar has very limited oil.. it is gas they sell.