Nick Against the World (109 Viewers)

[ZAF3000]

Aljazeera started its channel in English today...

I don't think it will succeed, though...

I really hope they do.. They have a message to deliver .. A voice of nations..

 

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[ReBeL]

I really hope they do.. They have a message to deliver .. A voice of nations..

I hope so too, but I doubt there are many who care to hear that message...

 

[ZAF3000]

I hope so too, but I doubt there are many who care to hear that message...

You would be surprised on how many would like to hear the others point of view..

 

[swag]

Its judging the act, not the person. A baby killer would deserve capital punishment under Shari'a. However once executed, no one could really judge what his/her ultimate fate would be. A common statement one someone who is a known "sinner" is "Afda ila rabih" , loosely translated to "surrendered his soul to God".

Thanks, Rami. Good clarification here for me.

Andy, I know I'm a few days late with this, however,


San Francisco 19
Detroit 13


Honestly, you should be ashamed of yourself.

There's only one thing that's Detroit's saving grace in that:

San Francisco 9
Minnesota 3

 

[swag]

Btw, in today's news from the "Oops, wrong flag!" department:

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/15/vietnam-bush-wrong-flag/

As Bush Goes To Vietnam, White House Website Displays The Wrong Flag

Today, President Bush visits Vietnam for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, “looking to burnish his foreign-policy credentials.” He’s off to a miserable start.

Yesterday, the White House website featured a graphic with the flags of the three countries he’s visiting on his trip — Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia. One problem: instead of displaying the Vietnamese flag, the White House graphic featured the old flag of South Vietnam. That flag hasn’t been the official flag of Vietnam since South Vietnam surrendered to North Vietnam in 1975.

The display of the old flag is highly incendiary to the current Vietnamese government. NPR reported last year the display of the old flag anywhere in the United States — much less on the White House website — “could create tension amid warming relations between the United States and Vietnam.”

The Vietnam Web site should have a laugh and post this U.S. flag classic:

 

[Lawnchair Bes]

lol

 

[Azzurri7]

I didn't know Besmir can laugh.

 

[Ahmed]

wow that was pretty stupid....lol they prob. still had the flag from the Nixon/LBJ era

 

[Azzurri7]

Anyone watched Italy's game?

 

[Snoop]

yeah, I wish I didn't.

 

[Azzurri7]

few questions please..

how was Italy's performance?

What mistakes did Donadoni commit?

Did they play the 4-1-4-1?? If yes, did it work?

Who played better in general?

 

[Snoop]

I am afraid I can't answer these, I was bored and playing Football manager instead

but these matches don't mean anything, he made like 127 substitution so you can't expect the team to play the way he wants, friendlies are wrothless matches, I am not sure if I will watch any again

 

[Azzurri7]

Yeah, I don't like frienlies matches

 

[Slagathor]

just watched the dirge that was holland v england and.......well it was terrible to watch. holland had lots of the ball but never looked like scoring.

however,one performance really stood out for me and i would like to pay homage

when holland were holding the ball without ever really penetrating, he never stoped trying to drive them on.
when they were a goal down and all around him were failing to inspire he gave it his all.
when it got to the end and they began to accept defeat, he refused to yield and gave it one last massive effort pushing them forward to the end

yes, the dutch drummer had the sort fo night that really inspires you, especially when the team were so shit

Yeah he was hardcore. As for myself: I kept zapping away, it hurt too much. In all I think I saw about 20 minutes.

I liked the crowds cheering Seedorf and calling for Van Nistelrooy and Van Bommel. Eat shit and die, Marco.

 

[Slagathor]

Great article, I completely agree. Has anyone else watched Al-Jazeera's English channel yet?

The Times November 16, 2006

Television

Al-Jazeera
Joe Joseph watching the channel broadcast from Doha

AL-JAZEERA’S Englishlanguage news channel launched itself on the world at noon yesterday with a rat-a-tat montage of clips from the world’s troublespots so blindingly jazzy that you might have expected it to carry a warning for epilepsy sufferers.

As a taster of what the station would offer, it was possibly the perfect appetiser: some war, gloom, war, bombs, despair, more war, dead bodies, hunger, more dead bodies, more war.

Al-Jazeera is the news version of subsisting on a diet of home-made unsweetened muesli with added flaxseed sprinkled on top, relieved by an occasional chew on a quiona cereal bar.

If you’re looking for stories about cats rescued from tall trees, or council officials chopping down pear trees in playgrounds for fear of injury to schoolchildren, then al-Jazeera probably isn’t for you. It offers something more along the lines of greatest hits of the world’s most depressing and dispiriting hotspots.

But it’s certainly pretty slick, arriving on screen fully formed with a network of correspondents spread across the globe like sprinkles on a fairy cake. Some of these reporters will be familiar to viewers of BBC News 24 or Sky News, others will not.

Making the most of the BBC’s banishment from Zimbabwe (apart from the occasional smuggled film footage, embroidered with a tearfully croaking voiceover from Fergal Keane), one of al-Jazeera’s first dispatches came from Harare.

The bad news was that there was not much actual news. This was more of a slick pre-prepared heat-and-serve film package clearly fashioned for transmission on launch day.

But those expecting the television equivalent of a rush-hour journey on the London Underground, repeatedly stalled by a series of points failures and signal failures, would have been disappointed.

Al-Jazeera’s shiny Doha newsroom looks like its designers may have watched Sky News more than once.

In the current fashion, studio presenters are prone to deliver the news standing up instead of seated behind desks, possibly in the belief that viewers take news more seriously if they think that the presenters have made the effort to get up off their backsides to impart it.

Though anyone watching the first few hours of broadcast would have struggled to match the workaday coverage with the channel’s opening boasts: “It’s November 15. Day 1 of a new era in television.” (Really? Has anyone alerted John Logie Baird?) “On al-Jazeera, we’ll be setting the news agenda.” (Doesn’t the actual news, you know, sort of do that?) “Al-Jazeera brought to the world a new vision” — which this new English-language version apparently will be carrying further. Oh yes, and it’s fearless.

Al-Jazeera is not a station worried about hiding its light under a bushel. But is there room for yet another news channel to elbow its way into our viewing habits? Just as history students first study the historian whose books they are reading, so news-watchers will be looking for clues as to which way al-Jazeera’s coverage might lean — if at all.

It seemed, pointedly, to make one of its first items a report about a fresh rocket attack from Gaza that had killed a woman in Israel; but then sounded a little strained when it then added that the attack had prompted a verbal warning from Israel to what al-Jazeera described as “so-called terrorist organisations” in Gaza, before then plunging at length into the “humanitarian crisis” in Gaza. There was an “exclusive interview” with a Hamas bigwig, but also, later, an interview with Shimon Peres.

First-day nerves? Not many. Maybe a little first-day overeagerness to impress when, within seconds of launching the channel, the presenter Shiulie Ghosh gushed that “a tsunami is heading towards the north of Japan”, triggered by an earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale, and was due to strike WITHIN THE NEXT FIVE MINUTES!!! The presenters seemed slightly discouraged when, some hours later, catastrophe had still not struck. Maybe that’s news that’s too good for al-Jazeera.

 

[Martin]

Sounds like a niche product then. Filling the gap for all those who believe the world is a dark place where nothing good ever happens. "We will depress you"? It's a bit of a shame, I used to think Al Jaezera was a respectable (or perhaps just respected) channel, but now with its English version the assumptions and prejudices about the station will all be gone in no time. Comparisons to other stations will spring up, scandals of misrepresentation, cencorship and bias will unfold. Just another pair of muddy boots on the coffee table.

 

[flieeeekke]

GOD HATES


GIANT


ASSES






. . .and Lithuanians

thats just simply not true. there are very few giant asses here, and we hate fags. god should love, if not adore, us.

 

[Zé Tahir]

Great article, I completely agree. Has anyone else watched Al-Jazeera's English channel yet?

I haven't seen this new channel yet. But this article seems to be a whole lotta BS. Reality is that it is pretty depressing and shitty around the world. And they intend to shed light on it. For the first time, there is a news channel that will show the other side and peoples eyes will be opened to the harsh realities, and not just see all the sugar coated bull they're shown in the West. Especially when it comes to the Muslim world.

 

[swag]

On a much wackier subject, when are these guys getting their own news channel in the West?:

Jedi Knights demand Britain's fourth largest 'religion' receives recognition
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=416761&in_page_id=1770

 

[sateeh]

there r 70,000 of them in here too