Al Gore sells Current TV

[DooHickey]

Al Gore has sold his American media outlet to the mouthpiece of our enemy in wartime; the mouthpiece of those who want to (and continually announce that they're going to, or are about to) burn Israel and everybody in it.

Al Gore-----profitting off big oil! Heaven forbid!

[Stinger]

Al Gore has sold his American media outlet to the mouthpiece of our enemy in wartime; the mouthpiece of those who want to (and continually announce that they're going to, or are about to) burn Israel and everybody in it.

Rather than be a reactionary dimwit, I heard a few things that bore more investigation. Al Jazeera is a news organization headquartered in Qatar, the same country where our Central Command set up shop during Bush's manufactured attack on Iraq. Get that? In spite of Arab operation to our almost unilateral invasion of Iraq, Qatar agreed to host our Centcom. Hardly our enemy.

Al Jazeera is an international news organization. As such, it presents information from all sources.

Al Jazeera did not show videos of Westerners being beheaded. That was a lie. Of course, Fox repeated the lie when Al Jazeera English launched in 2006, but Fox has never been one to seek truth, justice, or the American way.

Al Jazeera has been censored by Israel, but it has also been censored by China, and by the Palestinian Authority and other Arab and Muslim groups. Why? Because it reports the news.

Al Jazeera is the only source for dissenting views in the Arab views. (Al Arabiya may be getting there.) It is the only source I've found of calls, by Arabs, for the halt to senseless violence over political cartoons and videos.

Al Jazeera won a Webby Award as one of the five best news sites on the web. Slate Magazine said Al Jazeera's coverage of Egypt's revolution "embarrassed" U.S. cable news outlets. Wikileaks said about the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia -- "But let us not forget the elephant in the room: Al Jazeera + sat dishes."

Yes, Rummy may have had problems with Al Jazeera because they portrayed matters in a way he didn't like, but so did every news organization in the world except Fox. Clinton testified before the Senate that Al Jazeera offers more informative news about events in the Middle East than opinion-driven American media. No one bothered to refute her.

So, the rational and intelligent who wish to be informed will consider Al Jazeera as yet another source of usually credible information. The woefully and willfully ignorant who wish to remain woefully and willfully ignorant will continue to ignorantly bash Al Jazeera for imagined sins. They just know so many things that the facts don't support.

[Stinger]

Learned something new.

Journalism awards won by Al Jazeera English

2012

Webby People's Choice Award for News and Politics in the online film and video category, The Stream
Royal Television Society: News Channel for the Year
Royal Television Society: Most Innovative Programme, The Stream
George Polk Award for Television Documentary, "Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark"
The Franklin D Roosevelt Four Freedoms Awards, Freedom of Speech and Expression Medal
Alfred I DuPont Award, Best Documentary, "Haiti: Six Months On"
Foreign Press Association Awards (FPA), Best Environmental Story of the Year for "Bee Fence: Earthrise episode 1 (series 2)"
CINE Golden Eagle Award, "Burma Boy" for History Programming, Profession Telecast Non-fiction Category
CINE Golden Eagle Award, "Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark" for Investigative Programming, Profession Telecast News Division
CINE Golden Eagle Award, "The Crying Forest" for Investigative Programming, Professional Telecast News Division
CINE Golden Eagle Award, "Witness: Dream on Hold" for Informational Programming, Professional Telecast News Division
Monte Carlo TV Festival, Golden Nymph for Best News Documentary "Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark"
Amnesty International Media Award, "Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark" for International TV and Radio
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, "Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark" for International Television
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award - Grand Prize, "Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark"
One World Media Award, "Tanzania: Spell of the Albino" for Children’s Rights
The George Foster Peabody Award, Al Jazeera’s Coverage of the Arab Awakening
Scripps Howard Award for Television/Cable In-Depth Reporting, "Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark"
International Gold Panda Award, Best Short Documentary for "101 East: Bangladesh - Too Young to Work"
New York Festival, Silver Medal for "101 East: Nepal – Children for Sale"


2011

Rory Peck Award, Best Feature, "Libya: Through the Fire"
Foreign Press Association, Documentary of the Year, "Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark"
Huffington Post Ultimate Media Gamechanger Award
Freesat Award, Best News Channel of the Year
Freesat Award, Coverage of a Single News Event, Al Jazeera’s Arab Awakening coverage
Arab British Culture and Society Award
Wincott Award for Best Television Coverage of a Business Issue,"Nablus: The Business of Occupation"
Columbia University Journalism Award
Promax Arabia Awards, Gold, Best in House Station Image
Promax Arabia Awards, Gold, Best Promo Campaign
Promax Arabia Awards, Gold, "Counting the Cost"
TIME magazine, Top 100 most influential people, Ayman Mohyeldin
Fast Company magazine, Most creative thinker of the year, Wadah Khanfar
2010

Association of International Broadcasters, Clearest Coverage of a Single News Event
Freesat Award, Best News Channel of the Year
Monte-Carlo TV Festival, Best Television News Item, "Mexico in the Crossfire"
Amnesty International Award, International Television and Radio Award, People and Power
CONCENTRA Award for Breaking News, Casey Kauffman’s "Baby Feras"


2009

International Emmy Awards Nomination, Finalist in Documentary Category, "Shooting the Messenger"
International Emmy Awards Nomination, Finalist in News and Current Affairs, "Russia-Georgia War" and Witness’s "Return to Nablus"
Concentra Award for Breaking News, "Up the Irrawaddy Delta"
International Digital Emmy Award nominee non-fiction, 2008 US election special


2008

Foreign Press Association, News Story of the Year by a full member, Jonah Hull's "Russia-Georgia War"
Association of International Broadcasters Editors Award, Sami Al Haj, suffering endured and courage shown
Amnesty International Media Awards Best International TV Documentary,Tony Birtley's "The Lost Tribe - Secret Army of the CIA"
YouTube European Partners Awards, Community Champion Award, Al Jazeera Network
Monte-Carlo TV Festival, Golden Nymph Award - Best 24 Hour News Programme, on Gaza siege
CONCENTRA Award (2008), Breaking News, Tony Birtley’s "Inside Myanmar - The Crackdown"
Royal Television Society Journalism Awards, Young Journalist of the Year, Hamish Macdonald
Asian Television Awards, Best Current Affairs Programme, Tony Birtley’s "Inside Myanmar - The Crackdown"


2007

Asian Television Awards, Best News Report, Kylie Grey’s "Agent Orange"
Association of International Broadcasters, Editors Award, "Everywoman"


2006

Association of International Broadcasters, Best Magazine or Documentary Programme, Abdallah el-Binni's "Prisoner 345"
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[billy.pilgrim]

Al Gore has sold his American media outlet to the mouthpiece of our enemy in wartime; the mouthpiece of those who want to (and continually announce that they're going to, or are about to) burn Israel and everybody in it.

Al Gore-----profitting off big oil! Heaven forbid!

doodoohickey calls information "the enemy"

reckon he learned that of faux

[mike]

Al Gore has sold his American media outlet to the mouthpiece of our enemy in wartime; the mouthpiece of those who want to (and continually announce that they're going to, or are about to) burn Israel and everybody in it.

Al Gore-----profitting off big oil! Heaven forbid!

doodoohickey calls information "the enemy"

reckon he learned that off faux

More than likely ...

... Finally, a footnote: should it be a surprise to anyone that the first agency to break this "look at this evil totalitarian European government picking on a little girl" story was.... Fox News?

Heard The One About The Totalitarian Icelandic Government Refusing A Girl Her Name?