AL JAZEERA TO START NEW U.S.-BASED NEWS CHANNEL

[patrice]

42. Thanks for the perspective, but, well, I wasn't planning on buying into anything they offer 100%.

I have been kind of interested about whatever role they took on 9/11/12, as we saw, here on DU that night, pictures of the citizens of Benghazi standing in the streets with their home-made signs communicating their regret and sorrow for what had happened to Ambassador Stevens; an interesting sight indeed in light of the fact that Egypt too had been in the streets that day to have their say about something (The Innocence of Muslims ...???, really?), which they apparently did, to the tune of several 10s of thousands of people in the streets, and then, when they had finished the people's street business, they all went home to supper. So, it was poignant to see Libyans trying to communicate in an emergency situation like they had going on and, as most of the signs were in their native tongues, I would assume that Al Jazeera was the primary objective of those Libyan street-messages, which found their way onto the internet and then, the signs in English, made it here. Not sure how much of that with the signs would have happened if it had not been for Al Jazeera to act as a go between for the various Muslim nations, though I do recognize that they'd represent the corporate status quo for keeping "the peace" over there.

All waaaaaaaaaaay to byzantine for my tastes and time, so I'm really just a critical observer.