Comments on: Burlington, VT Debates Al-Jazeera, English

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By: Duvid

Duvid — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:29:32 +0000

Burlington Vermont is a confused city with republicans and way to many ultra liberals co-existing.
In fact Burlington is proud of the "Green Movement" and dreams of diversity. Well there are gas guzzler cars everywhewre, and Burlington's Church street is filled with high end boutiques. Oh the diversity!!
They dream here…and that's about it.

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By: SSS

SSS — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:05:00 +0000

Freedom of the press and media diversity are very very important concepts. It is important that Al Jazeera be kept on the air so that people in Burlington who want to watch it have the chance to do so while those that prefer the others can watch something else.

The difference between Al Jazeera and the mainstream media is that Al Jazeera told the truth about the Iraq war and its human cost, refused to toe the line of the Bush admininstration and is unafraid to talk about the human cost of the Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian territories. In other words, Al Jazeera speaks the truth while the corporate US media lied and hid the truth.

That some people here in the US feel the need to silence it shows the hypocricy of large segments of the US population with respects to basic freedoms of expression.

America stands for freedom. And we''ll bomb you if you disagree. Ha Ha.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:26:00 +0000

"the English version gives such a broad perspective"

Translation: Al Jazeera brought viewers interviews with Islamofascist terrorists who used the coverage to expand the reach of their propaganda, helping to recruit untold numbers of young, illiterate young men who thinks it makes sense to chop off women's heads for not wearing a veil and killing innocent Westerners is a sanctification of G-d.

There's a reason why American networks won't provide this perspective - it is not legitimate. Thank G-d we have the bombs to prove it.

By: programmer craig

programmer craig — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:42:00 +0000

Here's hoping the rest of the country catches up with the US!

Freudian slip?

I lived in Burlington for nearly two years, and it's sadly one of the most progressive places in the U.S

What does that have to do with the Middle East? The only people in the middle east who could be described as "progressive" are the Israelis. And even that is a stretch. The people of the middle east are conservative, and usually extremely so.

By: Jillian

Jillian — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:28:00 +0000

Thanks for covering this, hope you don't mind if I link to it on Global Voices.

I lived in Burlington for nearly two years, and it's sadly one of the most progressive places in the U.S. Sadly because there's only 40,000 people there, and not all of them are liberals (as you've seen from the protesters).

I also lived in Morocco when Al Jazeera English came out, and absolutely adored it. I can't say much about the channel in Arabic, but the English version gives such a broad perspective that American channels absolutely do not.

Here's hoping the rest of the country catches up with the US!