Comments on: First impressions: Al Jazeera English

By: SP

SP — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:26:16 +0000

Well, am I imagining it? I listened to it several times over to be sure.

By: Issandr El Amrani

Issandr El Amrani — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:51:10 +0000

SP - Ha! So al-Jazeera has a secret gay cowboy agenda!

I should have known.

By: SP

SP — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:26:56 +0000

Am I the only one who finds the opening notes of the new AJE theme music vaguely similar to the Brokeback Mountain theme?

By: Shay

Shay — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:20:42 +0000

I understand why the English Al Jazeera won’t be broadcasted in the US. And I think it’s a shame. Once more paranoia takes the best of this country.

Al Jazeera might be unfair. It might tell the news from an obvious anti-west perspective. But last time I checked, we were fighting in Iraq for freedom and Democracy.*

Thank god for the internet.

* I’m not going to get into what I really think about the “freedom and Democracy” we bring Iraq (we can always look at Afghanistan for a good model of how well we do there), I think staying in the ‘cliche’ area is good enough.

By: mohamed

mohamed — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:40:47 +0000

For your readers who missed it, here were the opening scenes : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijsNmMZt9fc

By: fadfadation

fadfadation — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:30:41 +0000

I hope they do a good job