Al Jazeera English Launches In New York City

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Source: Michael Calderone

Michael Calderone

Al Jazeera English Launches In New York City

Posted: 8/1/11 12:06 AM ET

NEW YORK -- Six months after New York City news junkies flocked to Al Jazeera English’s website for up-to-the-second coverage of the Egyptian uprising, they’ll now have a chance to watch the 24-hour news network on its original platform: television.

At midnight, Al Jazeera English launched in New York City on Time Warner Cable, a major step in the network’s goal of expanding further into the U.S. cable market and a chance to reach two million households in a world capital of culture and commerce. The network will also launch on Verizon FiOS in the coming days.

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Since launching in Nov. 2006, AJE has been dogged by lingering fears about its mission, stemming from the Bush administration’s condemnation of its sister network, Al Jazeera Arabic. In addition to verbally criticizing the Arabic network -- which had been airing Osama bin Laden’s video communiqués -- the U.S. military fired missiles at Al Jazeera’s office in Kabul in 2001 and later dropped bombs on its Baghdad newsroom during the Iraq invasion.

But lately, U.S. political leaders have had far more praise for the network's on-the-ground reporting around the globe. In March, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called AJE "real news" for its coverage of the Arab Spring protests. Two months later, both House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) attended a dinner for the network and spoke glowingly about its impact on the revolutions sweeping the Middle East and North Africa.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/01/al-jazeera-english-launches-new-york-city_n_914359.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

[Turborama]

1. Fantastic news!!

Finally America's 'information force field' has been penetrated by an awesome global news and current affairs channel and complacent American TV 'news'providers are going to have to step up their game.

HUGE K&R and thanks for posting!

[pinboy3niner]

2. Great!

I second everything you said, Turborama.

HUGH K&R! :)


:hi:

[Turborama]

10. Thanks!

And I second this ---> :hi:

:)

[No Elephants]

3. Really? On holy ground? (Holy ground adjacent? Same state? Whatever, it's just WRONG!!1111!!!

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[newfie11]

4. Fantastic news

Now if fox will just wither up and die.

[florida08]

5. k and r

:dem:

[shellgame26]

6. Yay!

[trud]

7. I check al Jazeera English before the NYTimes

on the web nowadays. Stuff happens that the Times completely ignores.

[lunatica]

8. kick'd and rec'd

[MrMickeysMom]

9. Thanks!!!

I'll be right over to get some more credible news source!