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Topic: Al Jazeera completes
deal to buy Current TV |
Al Jazeera completes
deal to buy Current TV
Los Angeles Times, by Joe Flint
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Posted By:loosbolt, 1/2/2013 9:19:52 PM
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| Current TV, the small cable news channel that was co-founded by former vice president Al Gore, has been sold to Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based media company. The acquisition gives Al Jazeera, which is funded by the Qatar government, the opportunity to establish a footprint in the United States, where it already has an English-language version of its Qatar service -- called Al Jazeera English -- but only limited reach. Just buying Current does not guarantee instant distribution, however. Time Warner Cable, which offered Current in roughly 10 million of its homes, is dropping the channel.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
fhancock, 1/2/2013 9:34:37 PM (No. 9095646)
If Al Jazeera gets all of Current TV´s viewers that means they will start with 17...and that is including Big Al and Michael Moore
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jl80863, 1/2/2013 10:13:19 PM (No. 9095679)
From one propaganda organ to another.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
hot coffee, 1/2/2013 10:19:21 PM (No. 9095686)
Looks like Current TV will become a little less left-wing and radical.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Axeman, 1/2/2013 10:33:24 PM (No. 9095703)
More, or less, anti-American?
Or the same hateful anti-American slant?
Who will watch to find out?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bob913, 1/2/2013 10:36:37 PM (No. 9095706)
A vice president of the United States selling out to a pro terrorist supporter like Al Jazeera!!!!
9/11 was not that long ago. I remember the democrats being supportive of the United States afterward for about 1 week then Bill Clinton started criticizing us in a speech over in Europe. The democrats have been stabbing us ever since.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
snakeoil, 1/2/2013 11:06:35 PM (No. 9095746)
Would love to see The Gorbot´s face when he finds out they´re paying him in Carbon Credits.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Newtsche, 1/2/2013 11:37:54 PM (No. 9095781)
An odd world gets a little odder.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Videodrone, 1/2/2013 11:40:44 PM (No. 9095782)
or could this be the only merger in broadcast history that lost viewers?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Donna M, 1/2/2013 11:44:48 PM (No. 9095786)
Over the holiday week Current TV was running spots on The Military Channel running on NJ Cablevision...there´s a coincidence here somewhere.
It should also be noted that the other co-founder is another hard leftie, Joel Hyatt (Hyatt Legal Services now part of MetLife, not Hyatt Hotels). And that both the Gorebot and Hyatt will be on AlJazeera America´s advisory board. These two truly hate their country.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
killerbee, 1/3/2013 12:24:08 AM (No. 9095814)
So Gorebot has been paid millions upon millions of dollars that come from a network funded by oil producing nations. On top of that hypocrisy, he -- Progressive Democrat extraordinaire -- pushed the deal to be completed by by midnight December 31 so as to avoid being hit by the tax increase.
It must be nice to have your perfidy smoothed over by the media machine.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/3/2013 5:24:40 AM (No. 9095926)
Typical demonrat. Taxes for you; none for me.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet, 1/3/2013 8:59:21 AM (No. 9096170)
Just another example of how the left hates America.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MattO, 1/10/2013 6:34:58 AM (No. 9108343)
Had to sacrifice the "Golf Channel" to trim down my DISH subscription so I would not be paying for MSNBC, Current, MTV, etc. I refuse to pay for this garbage even if I have to give up some channels I like. It is a matter of principle. If everyone would do this they would get the message and throw the rats off the ship!
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