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DOHA, Qatar–Can [tag]Al Jazeera[/tag] find a home on U.S. cable networks? It’s going to try next spring.
The media company, which operates an Arabic-language news TV channel and Web sites, will open a 24-hour English-language news channel starting in spring 2006 with broadcasting centers in Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington, D.C.
It will also relaunch its English-language Web site, complete with features like Short Message Service (SMS) publishing. The new station and the revamped Web site will be branded Al Jazeera International.
Subjects covered by the station will run the gamut, including talk shows, sports, international news and regional stories. It will also hire correspondents around the globe, opening up to 30 bureaus worldwide.
Currently, Al Jazeera is negotiating with Astro, a Malaysian satellite TV provider, to carry the channel. No potential U.S. carriers have been named.
Anyone in doubt over whether or not the English version will be nothing like the inflammatory [tag]Al Qaeda[/tag] mouthpiece the arabic one is? And does anyone doubt that the left side of the aisle will be orgasming over the prospect of easily attainable anti-everything-in-the-world-except-women-wearing-burqas propaganda? And does anyone doubt that the left will tell you again and again how Al-Jazeerah is telling the truth while on their very same sites calling [tag]Fox News[/tag] a mouthpiece of the Bush Administration?
If you do doubt it, you’re a damned fool.