Hillary Clinton: "Viewership Of Al Jazeera Is Going Up In The United States Because It's Real News"

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“Al Jazeera has been the leader in literally changing people’s minds and attitudes. And like it or hate it, it is really effective.

In fact viewership of al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it’s real news. You may not agree with it, but you feel like you’re getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news which, you know, is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners.”

Technically, she's talking about http://english.aljazeera.net/">Al Jazeera English, which is a totally different channel to the Arabic language channel http://aljazeera.net/">Al Jazeera, but it's still a tectonic shift in attitude compared to the last administration who called them "terrorist TV", http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=6848728">murdered Al Jazeera reporters and wanted to literally wipe them off them map.

Something from the LA Times article last month titled: "http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-al-jazeera-20110207,0,7680421.story">U.S. mends frosty relations with Al Jazeera" could explain this rapprochement...

Today there is a "healthy tension" with Al Jazeera, said Shell Smith, who served for two decades as a foreign service officer in the Middle East and Asia, and has seen how Al Jazeera and other networks have helped break state media monopolies.

Tony Berman, Al Jazeera's chief strategic advisor for the Americas, said that multiple meetings with U.S. officials have smoothed the relationship. Clinton had a frank, one-hour discussion with Al Jazeera's top executives during a visit to Qatar a year ago that seemed to clear the air, Berman said.

"The cold war that existed between the Bush administration and Al Jazeera has totally ended," Berman said. "Now it's a professional relationship between an aggressive government and an aggressive news organization."

Created in 1996 by the Qatari government, Al Jazeera "is becoming a global media power," said a November report by the State Department's inspector general.

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x326334">Demand Al Jazeera English In The USA


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[knowbody0]

1. I will love Hillary forever and a day because of today

[Dawson Leery]

2. Read the foreign papers online.

Listen to BBC radio. Non-American media gives a broader and balanced perspective.

[Chipper Chat]

3. I swear every time I flipped to CNN today it was Libya or Charlie Scream.

:argh: :argh: :argh:

[democracy1st]

5. CNN is getting worse,no direction.

[Thunderstruck]

18. And that stupid royal wedding between two somebodyorothers in England.

[HighLowRoller87]

20. Not really stupid IMO just the media has overkilled it like election commericals do.....

to a point I'm just not interested in watching.

[democracy1st]

4. K & R

[marybourg]

6. Been watching Aljazeera English via livestation on my ipod touch

since the Egypt uprising and am very impressed with it.

[azul]

7. "not particularly informative"

Tabloid sexed-up feel-good baloney on a mission, masquerading as information.

AJE will be on the air here when it hires some CIA clowns that can entertainingly mess with the truth: maybe never.

[JDPriestly]

8. Hillary is right. Americans deserve something better from our "free" press.

First of all, a lot of our media tells only a part of the story. Then some of it just intentionally lies (or so it seems). Some of the newscasters say things that are really stupid.

Our schools of journalism must be doing something wrong. I wonder how much history journalism curricula include. I think that Sarah Palin has some sort of journalism-related degree, and she seems to be completely confused about basic history.

Our newscasters seem to be chosen for their good looks, not their education, intelligence or quick wit.

[Wilms]

9. She got this one right. n/t

[jerseyjack]

10. Maybe Al-J is an O.K. news source,

but I bet the dumb bastids that watch it don't know about Charlie Sheen. So what good is it?

[Enthusiast]

11. Way to go Hillary! K&R nt

[Historic NY]

12. CNN,NBC,ABC,MSNBC, CBS, FOX..........are like gossip news....

only titillating stuff and some assholes opinions....they cover stuff they can make money on. Its a shame when we have to resort to off-shore media for news about whats going on here with unbiased opinions.

[FourScore]

13. She's right. n/t

[Kablooie]

14. I just found out that KCET, LA's main PBS station, now broadcasts Al Jazeera news.

[mmonk]

15. Good on her. It could be one of many counter weights to propaganda

by giving people a view outside.

[Charleston Chew]

16. US to fight real reporting with pure propaganda

America is losing the war of words, to new players - RT being one of them. U.S. top diplomat Hillary Clinton has lamented that foreign English-language media is putting home-grown news networks to shame. She's asked Congress for more cash to promote America's agenda abroad. But media professor Christopher Chambers doubts the money will produce balanced reporting.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x559660

[vroomvroom]

17. How does PBS compare? Anyone? I'm curious.

Just wondering how Al Jazeera English compares to something PBS does?

[Karenina]

19. Al Jazeera can be sensationalist...

If it bleeds, it leads. However, what keeps me glued as stories break are their live interviews which broadcast ONCE. People ON THE GROUND. Those on the front line. Credentialed academics and analysts. Their talking heads are a rainbow; young, old, from hither thither and yon.

Programs such as Witness, Counting the Cost, Empire are EXCELLENT! Interviews conducted by Riz Khan and Sir David Frost are often riveting. Anyone who wishes to EXPAND their understanding would do well to take note of the WIDE RANGE of information, stories, views and perspectives Al Jazeera offers.