Al-Jazeera TV to launch English-language service late 2005

[maddezmom]

DOHA (AFP) - Al-Jazeera television announced that it would launch an English-language satellite channel in late 2005 to rival established 24-hour international news stations.


"Our target now is to launch Al-Jazeera International by November 2005," said managing director Nigel Parsons of the service that, like its Arabic-language service, would be based in the Qatari capital, Doha.


"The HQ will be in Doha, the Asian bureau in Kuala Lumpur, the European bureau in London and the American bureau in Washington," he added.


Initial staff would number "around 300" he said, and would be recruited for their professional experience and mastery of English, with no consideration for ethnicity or nationality.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=12&u=/afp/20041124/wl_mideast_afp/qatar_economy_media_041124201904

[Winamericaback]

1. Honestly

Not sure if this is good or bad....

[jtb33]

4. I don't know how this could *possibly* be good...

Regardless of any other current US news station bias, it's not like it wouldn't be painfully obvious that Al Jazeera has a <sarcasm> slight </sarcasm> bias.

[maddezmom]

5. if it's so painfully obvious, where is the harm??

:shrug:

[VegasWolf]

6. You mean Faux? I think competition is great, CNN has proved they

don't stand up well against Faux. I read the al Jazerra
web site all the time, they provide an Arab point
of view we don't see here.

[Osamasux]

2. Can't be as bad as Fox News.

[alexisfree]

3. dont know...

they always have surprises for us..

[Voltaire99]

7. Listen to you lot! Open your minds, people.

"I don't know if it's bad or good," "How can it be good?"

Our nation is at war based on lies. Our own national media have spent the past half year apologizing for not more critically investigating those lies.

And you don't read Arabic (and neither do I). So where in hell do you expect to get news from an Arab perspective if not from the Arab press? And how do you expect to understand anything without that perspective?

Jeezus.

[DavidDvorkin]

10. Absolutely right, Voltaire99

Whether there's any chance of it showing up on my cable service is another matter.

[DavidDvorkin]

11. Oops. Missed the "satellite" part

Must read more carefully.

[dttk0009]

8. Awesome!

I think this is fantastic news!

[Just Me]

9. Wonder if they'll hire Americans,...

,...wonder how much they pay (LOL - work is so hard to find these days). Wonder if any American working for them will automatically be listed as an "enemy combatant" by the Bush administration.