Gulper Eel: Gaia-lovers

Please. The preferred term is "greenie-weenies".

zarberg: Al Jazeera English is one of the most unbiased news stations I've seen, so ...

I'm ok with this.

It is a lot more effective than have something called "The Learning Channel" which broadcasts Honey Booboo

That's actually great news.

Uncle Tractor: DGS: Interesting.. the thread count for this has dropped from 114 to 109 to 107 now as I'm trying to refresh, and I can't get past the 1st 100 posts. May have to change the way I paginate.

Down to 97 as of right now, according to the post count on the main page.

And because nobody else has posted this yet:
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He looks like a successful "business" man in that picture not scary at all.

Come on this Fox News viewers.



OMG towel on the head means tu'rrist
There that's better.

What the hell are you doing Bob in the graphics department? May as well show his glamour shot.



Funny how prejudice works.

He has super awesome mustache in that picture and looks like the Magnum PI of Saudi.

randomjsa: I'm shocked, simply shocked, that another venture by liberals outside entertainment has gone under.

Man, you're really commited; I'll give you that much.

Apos: *scans headline*

What is the anguished cry from Glen Beck and his Outraged RightTM cohorts, Alex?

/*Slinks out of thread*

For the love of Christ! Will you at least leard how to spell the man's name? It's G-L-E-N-N. How difficult is that?

acad1228: Apos: *scans headline*

What is the anguished cry from Glen Beck and his Outraged RightTM cohorts, Alex?

/*Slinks out of thread*For the love of Christ! Will you at least leard how to spell the man's name? It's G-L-E-N-N. How difficult is that?

"learn"... Fark it's early...

Bungles: Al Jazeera is at the level of the BBC and Channel4's news reporting. The US doesn't have anything of that quality any more. Maybe this will help.

Channel 4's news reporting? The ones that ran "The Great Global Warming Swindle"? You have really low standards.

acad1228: Apos: *scans headline*

What is the anguished cry from Glen Beck and his Outraged RightTM cohorts, Alex?

/*Slinks out of thread*For the love of Christ! Will you at least leard how to spell the man's name? It's G-L-E-N-N. How difficult is that?

John Stewart will get right on that.

They will not likely jump on the next middle-east war bandwagon as fast as the current networks did.

//I am still ill from the pre-Iraq invasion coverage/cheer-leading.

Thunderpipes: Farkers love AJ?

I never would have believed that, so shocked.


And after they attacked us on 9/11 no less.

DGS: Bungles: Thunderpipes: Farkers love AJ?

I never would have believed that, so shocked.


Farkers - fat alcoholic slobs as they may be - are generally far more politically well-informed than average. So why wouldn't they appreciate a solid news channel with superb global coverage, created from the cream of the world's news organisations?

Nice try. We all know it's because most Farkers are pinko commie soshulist Kenyan usurper apologists that support islamofascist regimes. They can't stand the Real Truth (tm) from the Fair and Balanced reporting only Fox News can provide. That's why the facetious post was made. And it was dripping with sarcasm, but you're too far into the ObamaKoolAid to notice. You need Jesus.

That statement is the truth.

Farkers are ant-American, they don't think people should work, they think success should be punished, guns outlawed, freedom of speech gotten rid of, and America is too strong and we need to be weakened.

Not a single argument any of you could make, because that describes you perfectly.

Thunderpipes: Farkers are ant-American, they don't think people should work, they think success should be punished, guns outlawed, freedom of speech gotten rid of, and America is too strong and we need to be weakened.

Not a single argument any of you could make, because that describes you perfectly.

That's funny. You're funny.

/do something about a hivemind next!

Gulper Eel: Mr. Right: Other than Gore being saved from his own stupidity by Al Jazeera, what's the news story here?

None of the usual contingent of Gaia-lovers at Fark have noted the irony of Mr. Greener-Than-Thou Nobel Peace Prize making some mighty sweet coin thanks to oil money from a shady Qatari mutli-billionaire, nor has there been a peep from Camp Class Warfare about how the deal was pushed through on Tuesday so as to minimize Gore's tax nut. Clearly he's a conniving plutocrat using devious means to avoid paying his fair share.

As for al-Jazeera, sometimes they are not as neutral as their cheerleaders would believe.

"Orders were given not to tackle any Saudi issue without referring to the higher management," one Jazeera newsroom employee wrote in an e-mail message. "All dissident voices disappeared from our screens."

The employee noted that coverage of Saudi Arabia was always politically motivated at Al Jazeera - in the past, top management used to sometimes force-feed the reluctant news staff negative material about Saudi Arabia, apparently to placate the Qatari leadership. But he added that the recent changes were seen in the newsroom as an even more naked assertion of political will.

"To improve their relations with Qatar, the Saudis wanted to silence Al Jazeera," he wrote. "They got what they wanted."

Used to be a big fan, but when the Libya fiasco came up it became very clear they had marching orders to support Ghaddafi's overthrow, and that trend became even more pronounced with in their reporting on Syria. I know a lot of their reporting is good and they had excellent documentaries, but I no longer watch it.

Glad to see this.

It's really pitiful that American cable providers don't simply carry Al Jeezera. AJE does some great reporting and it's illuminating to have a non-US perspective on world events. US citizens would benefit from being exposed to it.

But alas, no, Americans are too xenophobic/paranoid/disinterested.

/sigh

xria: Bungles: Al Jazeera is at the level of the BBC and Channel4's news reporting. The US doesn't have anything of that quality any more. Maybe this will help.

Channel 4's news reporting? The ones that ran "The Great Global Warming Swindle"? You have really low standards.


That was a program commissioned by C4's Documentary department (and not evenproduced by), which has literally nothing to do with C4 News (which is a wing of ITN). They are not only different companies, neither actually created it regardless. It should also be said that it even described itself as presenting the minority view-point of a small group, which is exactly what it did.

It's never a problem when those foreigners are Israeli.

I've never quite figured out why all these free market capitalists get so worked up over who is *buying* something instead of pointing their fingers over who's selling it, not since the Japanese real estate grab of the 80s.

qualtrough: Used to be a big fan, but when the Libya fiasco came up it became very clear they had marching orders to support Ghaddafi's overthrow, and that trend became even more pronounced with in their reporting on Syria. I know a lot of their reporting is good and they had excellent documentaries, but I no longer watch it.

So you were a big supporter of Ghaddafi and Assad?

Gulper Eel: Philip Francis Queeg: Do tell how pushing the deal through on Tuesday January 1, 2013 minimized Gore's tax obligation.

On that point I stand corrected, although the Times article clearly reveals Gore's desire to take unfair advantage of the poor downtrodden masses. He may have bee thwarted this time, but will be back for more, as the rapacious wealthy are wont to do.

We get it. Al Gore has money so his argument is invalid.

Woke up this morning to find Time Warner no longer carries Current. I wonder if that was planned for the new year or a knee-jerk reaction to those darn mooslims buying the libruls.

Philip Francis Queeg: qualtrough: Used to be a big fan, but when the Libya fiasco came up it became very clear they had marching orders to support Ghaddafi's overthrow, and that trend became even more pronounced with in their reporting on Syria. I know a lot of their reporting is good and they had excellent documentaries, but I no longer watch it.

So you were a big supporter of Ghaddafi and Assad?


How dare they not present a fair and balanced view of the perpetrators of a genocide! And by fair and balanced, I don't mean fair and balanced (which they did), I mean presenting regime propaganda with an equal footing with facts on the ground.

Thunderpipes: DGS: Bungles: Thunderpipes: Farkers love AJ?

I never would have believed that, so shocked.


Farkers - fat alcoholic slobs as they may be - are generally far more politically well-informed than average. So why wouldn't they appreciate a solid news channel with superb global coverage, created from the cream of the world's news organisations?

Nice try. We all know it's because most Farkers are pinko commie soshulist Kenyan usurper apologists that support islamofascist regimes. They can't stand the Real Truth (tm) from the Fair and Balanced reporting only Fox News can provide. That's why the facetious post was made. And it was dripping with sarcasm, but you're too far into the ObamaKoolAid to notice. You need Jesus.

That statement is the truth.

Farkers are ant-American, they don't think people should work, they think success should be punished, guns outlawed, freedom of speech gotten rid of, and America is too strong and we need to be weakened.

Not a single argument any of you could make, because that describes you perfectly.

AJ is great, if for no other reason than they realize that newsworthy stuff happens to non-white people south of the equator.

The Bestest: zarberg: Woke up this morning to find Time Warner no longer carries Current. I wonder if that was planned for the new year or a knee-jerk reaction to those darn mooslims buying the libruls.

TWC claims to have been planning to drop Current for awhile now (due to ratings), but the timing is definitely more than coincidental.

This WSJ blog post says that the lack of TWC coverage is due to TWC "not agreeing" to the Al Jazeera purchase (about the middle of the article)

I see that the relationship between these two guys regarding ownership of a well known US "News" network has been alreadycovered in this thread

vygramul: squidgod2000: AJ is great, if for no other reason than they realize that newsworthy stuff happens to non-white people south of the equator.

What I like is that they don't cut away to pundits telling us what we're supposed to think about something.  If there's fighting in the streets in Egypt, the US media will show 30 seconds of fighting and then have pundits talk about it while showing the same clip over and over in a small window in the corner.  Flip to AJ, and you will watch the live feed for hours.

Pretty much this.

BBC news is the best, but I understand it may be hard to get in the USA. France24 ain't bad either.

But yeah, Al Jazeerah English is pretty good. (The Arabic one is, shall we say, more carefully controlled).

DGS: Two16: Thunderpipes: DGS: Bungles: Thunderpipes: Farkers love AJ?

I never would have believed that, so shocked.


Farkers - fat alcoholic slobs as they may be - are generally far more politically well-informed than average. So why wouldn't they appreciate a solid news channel with superb global coverage, created from the cream of the world's news organisations?

Nice try. We all know it's because most Farkers are pinko commie soshulist Kenyan usurper apologists that support islamofascist regimes. They can't stand the Real Truth (tm) from the Fair and Balanced reporting only Fox News can provide. That's why the facetious post was made. And it was dripping with sarcasm, but you're too far into the ObamaKoolAid to notice. You need Jesus.

That statement is the truth.

Farkers are ant-American, they don't think people should work, they think success should be punished, guns outlawed, freedom of speech gotten rid of, and America is too strong and we need to be weakened.

Not a single argument any of you could make, because that describes you perfectly.

Perfect response, thanks!

I'm an American Ant so I'm really getting a kick...

Liberals like terrorists, news at 11:00.

Yeah, it figures that the kos tab would have a so what headline for this story.

Al Gore pushes the sale of his network to an anti-American biased broadcaster before Jan 1 for tax reasons. Then, retires to another wing in his fancy mansion for more donuts.

It's cool and hip when a Democrat does that.

This funny story came through yesterday at the same time Andrew Sullivan announced he was starting a subscription site. If he had paid attention to the internet since 1998, he would know liberals don't pay their money for anything. Ever.

They sure as hell bought all the soccer league rights. Next season, Fox Soccer will have Champion's League, and nothing else. No EPL (NBC), no Italy (beIN), etc.

Also, Al Gore just pocketed millions in dirty oil money. Al Gore did this.

The hypocrisy never stops.

barneyfifesbullet: Also, Al Gore just pocketed millions in dirty oil money. Al Gore did this.

The hypocrisy never stops.

You have a link or paper trail evidence? I'd love to see it.

I know I'm just troll feeding

Yeah, when anyone but the kos kids have a say, it's trolling. Typical, also.