Is the hit out on Al Jazeera now?

[metapunditedgy]

Back when CNN was headlining Lohan and Palin daily, Al J was telling us what was going on in Tunisia. Al J led the pack on Egypt, too. CNN and the US media ignored Egypt for days, then spent the next few weeks pouting and shouting "Scary! Violent!"

Al Jazeera was also the only news outlet I've seen that regularly showed pictures of *women* in the protests. (I guess women don't fit in the "Angry riot" corporate meme.)

Please, people. Grow a brain. I don't care if you don't like Al J, but any network that shows how much CNN has in common with FOX deserves at least a little respect.

[EFerrari]

1. A lot of governments have tried to shut down AJ reporting

about their countries.

They must be doing something right. :)

[metapunditedgy]

2. I don't know what the US government thinks of Al Jazeera, but it was pretty

clear from their reporting that things were moving faster in Egypt than we wanted. Seems like US media didn't pick up on the protests until it got to the point where they couldn't be ignored.

[EFerrari]

4. Btw, Reuters reports that AJ has been blocked in Libya --

signal jammed and website blocked.

[upi402]

5. When BushCo targeted them I began to think they were valid

The BushCo hate list is a direct one-to-one correlation with truth, justice, and the American way. Make that, the human being way -anywhere on earth.

[EFerrari]

6. That's a good point!

:)

[Uncle Joe]

3. As for the women in the Egyptian Democracy Protests and their subsequent exclusion from the talks

forming their new government, I can't help but wonder if Lara Logan was deliberately targeted for attack by the Egyptian PTBs because they knew she had already taken on the Army as exhibited in her Charlie Rose interview and that she would cover the women being left out of the democratic process.

Thanks for the thread, metapunditedgy.

[metapunditedgy]

7. Al Jazeera web site has a prominent story about the "women of the revolution"

today, coincidentally.

Thanks... I do think this is an important topic...