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today I noticed that al jazeera english is showing a decent piece on bitcoin in its regular news show, so right in the prime position not some extra show.

cant find a video so far but the piece is being repeated every hour now, ive already seen it twice today :)

i think its pretty cool they try to report on this in a rational manner, not like the US media does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzJ2AXfXZA4

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ifwhg/al_jazeera_englishs_thestream_discusses_bitcoin/

This?

How crazy is it that the best / non-biased cabal news sources for the US is from Al Jazeera and Russia Times?  

It's fun being an American.  We are literally treated like mushrooms ~ kept in the dark and fed a steady diet of shite.

no its not the püiece from the stream, thats another shw on al jazeera (a good one actually)

im talking about a real news piece during their newshour

I heard it was a good one.  And I am in it. :)  If anyone recorded it, please email me.

Thanks!

It's because Al Jazeera English is NOTHING like the original Al Jazeera. It's actually run by a highly respected Canadian with tons of journalism experience. What you as Americans should be up in arms about is the fact that you can't access it... In the land of the free :-)

This is excellent journalism.

The show can be watched on youtube - see the 2nd post. Good stuff  ;D

ah your the host of the bitcoin show correct? yep saw your interview :)

Yeah, it's nuts.  They show all sorts of stuff that you either don't see on american news or it's alot sooner. 

Thanks.  That 2nd post YouTube is from The Stream.   It's cool....   But that is NOT the one I was referring to.

I am referring to the main broadcast segment on Al Jazeera English....  Not the one from The Stream.

Anyone record that one?

I've found AJ(E) and RT to be extremely objective and unbiased compared to other media outlets... they have reported on Anonymous several times before, and were always very accurate in the details, properly researching their things, not going with the usual 'all Anonymous does is LOIC' sentiment and also digging deeper about 'behind the scenes' thing that were going on.

In fact, Russia Today went even further: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZZVETrrS9M

I can attest that Al Jazeera English is truly excellent. I had access to them while living in Dubai and I was amazed how much more in-depth and interesting their topics were than CNN/Fox/MSNBC/Etc. Now that I'm back in the states, the moment it's available in my area I'll sign up.

You can actually watch their stream online in various places. http://www.livestation.com/ has an OK stream, http://www.youtube.com/aljazeeraenglish has a better stream (at one point they actually had a 780p stream).

EDIT: On the YouTube page you have to scroll down a bit to see it.

or you can just watch it on their own site
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

Heh, I remember their own site having serious issues in coping with high loads. During the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, YouTube was the only seriously reliable stream. Livestation usually worked well but not always, and the stream on their own site was dead 90% of the time.

Al Jazeera English Segment  http://goo.gl/plEwV

Quicktime? Can someone throw it up in a useable format?

Try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgPSfnlfct4 in a minute.

Edit: Cool little in between new piece, offers little opinion, shows a lot about Bitcoin, very nice.

That is awesome. Go exposure go.

You must be kidding?  Why can't Americans access the only viewable English language 24 hour news channel?  I find it hard to believe that Al Jazeera leaves America out?

CNN and the like is just commercials interrupted by weather reports and short, shallow and totally uninteresting news headlines.  Al Jazeera has real content most of the time, gets the news out faster and goes more in depth.  Al Jazeera has an amazing ability to be where the news happens when it happens (I often wonder if they are psychic), and the story is over before the other channels gets there and pretend it's news.  During the Israeli attack on Gaza, Al Jazeera were the only media in the war zone, etc.  And they are less biased than most other media.  Not speculating or having biased people analyse things to much, and instead telling and showing what is really happening.  Al Jazeera is the best 24 hour news channel ever.  Far better than all competition.  Americans should demand that Al Jazeera start transmitting to North America.

I believe they literally have reporters all over the world all the time... and offices. I remember how in one of the Arab revolutions (the Tunisian one? not sure) the media office building where their local office was, was actually stormed by police, and they were even reporting that live, and filming a 'riot' from out of their window.

that was kairo, tahrir sq (btw people are in egypt are on the streets again today)

just wanted to tell you guys that AJE "counting the costs" show will air a bitcoin segment during one of its next shows

looks like AJE is a real btc fan :)

and in order to get AJE in the US i think americans must put pressure ion their cable providers

Russia Times is available for free on my Roku box (a common Netflix streaming box).  I swear they used to carry Al Jazeera English as well, but it's not currently available.

It comes in just fine on my set along with RT and whatever else I could want to watch, Granted I have ITV and you certainly wont find these stations offered on any cable package here. So, we are free to watch whatever we want but should be pissed that the providers only offer what is 'acceptable' American shit.






edited for grammar and mispellings

Agreed, and of course you can also probably access it online... I was talking specifically about the fact that when Al Jazeera English first got started a few years ago, the association of cable broadcasters in the US made a decision not to carry it on any of their lineups. Again, the arguments they used MIGHT have applied to the original channel, in Arabic, but AJE really is a different sort of beast.