|
BBC Plans al-Jazeera Competitor
(EFL)The British Broadcasting Corp. said Thursday it will launch a 24-hour Arabic-language TV news channel to compete with the Qatar-based satellite station Al-Jazeera. Will the Beeb give their correspondents walking-around money to help stage attacks on US forces? The channel will be broadcast across the Middle East and Europe. Excellent -- now the tendentious self-hating poison of the BBC will be more accessible to budding jihadi recruits in the suburbs of major European cities. The BBC is hoping to rival Al-Jazeera, which has aired many of Osama bin Ladenâs speeches and has been accused of anti-Western bias. Read that sentence again. One of the best, funniest, most depressing unintentionally insightful sentences Iâve seen in the media for a long time! The venture follows the recent launch of the U.S. government-funded Al-Hurra TV station, which has been denounced by some Muslim clerics as "propaganda." Note that al-Jazeera and al-Hurra are both accused of bias -- so I guess theyâre the same. Sounds plausible -- a service launched by the most open society on Earth with the most free press is probably no different than a wildly unprofessional propaganda service originating in a region without a shred of objective journalistic values or experience. Posted by: Verlaine 2004-06-24 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=36336 |