'Al Jazeera America' Prepares To Launch This Tuesday - Polidicks

[quote]Al Jazeera America has a long, tough road ahead. Ehab Al Shihabi, the interim CEO for the channel, acknowledges as much. Al Shihabi said that according to their market research, 75% of people surveyed that had never seen any Al Jazeera programming had a negative perception of the brand. There was a silver lining however: among people who saw Al Jazeera programming, 90% had a positive perception of it. “There was a perception, but it wasn’t a reality,” Al Shihabi said. The channel is embarking on a wide-ranging branding effort, encompassing both an advertising campaign and in-person meetings with politicians, interest groups and community leaders. The push will be in cities where AJAM has carriage, as well as in places it doesn’t. “We have engaged in this opportunity by taking on a lot of dialogue, so that people understand our mission and journalistic identity,” Al Shihabi said. ”With the heavy public affairs, with the heavy communications, with the heavy dialogue building, I think we can see most of the media coverage and most of the interactions, we can now move it on the positive side.” Feedback will come quickly, as AJAM is planning to be rated by Nielsen at launch, even though it lost a few million households after acquiring Current TV and taking over its spot on the lineup. There is still a chance it finds space on other cable and satellite operators before launch. Al Jazeera America’s New York headquarters sits inside a nondescript entrance on West 34th St. and 8th Avenue, inside the building that houses The New Yorker hotel. There are TV screens on the sidewalk, though they have not been turned on yet, and a gold Al Jazeera America logo is emblazoned into the stone. The first thing you see when you walk in is a blindingly white lobby, while off to the right a security checkpoint looks like it would fit right in at a small airport. Up a flight of stairs, the newsroom itself is vast, covering two floors (see photos in the slideshow below), with 150 or so desks flanked by 40 foot marble columns, while the walls are covered with flatscreen monitors and clocks. Natural light flows in through full-height frosted windows, a stark contrast to the cold, dark newsrooms at some other channels. “It used to be a bank depository, and as I understand it was in quite decrepit shape,” Paul Eedle, Al Jazeera’s director of programming said on a tour this morning. While it is now far from decrepit, the space is only slated to be temporary. Eedle says a search is underway to find a permanent home for all of AJAM’s New York staff. At the moment the network also uses Current TV’s old studio space on 33rd street, where Ali Velshi‘s program will originate. Eedle hopes to move to a permanent space in two years.[/quote] [url]http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/bracing-for-impact-al-jazeera-america-prepares-to-launch_b192001[/url]

Great, another source that can't be cited without people calling bullshit for it's own sake.

FOX News will love this [QUOTE=Zenreon117;41885027]Great, another source that can't be cited without people calling bullshit for it's own sake.[/QUOTE] What?

[QUOTE=Zenreon117;41885027]Great, another source that can't be cited without people calling bullshit for it's own sake.[/QUOTE] Going to take a wild guess and say you've never heard anything about Al Jazeera.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;41885067]Going to take a wild guess and say you've never heard anything about Al Jazeera.[/QUOTE] I am having difficulty interpreting what he said.

I'm all for more news sources. I hope it ends up on at least the mid-range cable packages.

I have heard about Al Jazeera before. I saw a program on TV about how they came to hungary and made some report, faking the whole thing making us look like racists and nazis. It was full of lies about the government and everything in the country. That's all i need to know about them.

[QUOTE=Zenreon117;41885027]Great, another source that can't be cited without people calling bullshit for it's own sake.[/QUOTE] I think he means its a source that people will dispute if you use it

Sweet, looks like I'll get it. One of the few news channels I'd probably actually watch.

I've always viewed Al Jazeera as one of the rather objective and serious news outlets.

Al Jazeera is nice, especially when you see how scummy most media is, but just like any other news outlet they have their moments of bias.

[QUOTE=Zenreon117;41885027]Great, another source that can't be cited without people calling bullshit for it's own sake.[/QUOTE] Al Jazeera is one of the better media sources, unlike Russiatoday, which is awful.

Al Jazeera launched in Australia but Foxtel pushed it all the way to the end of the News & Documentaries that if you clicked next you'd go to CCTV then Nickelodeon

Al Jazeera is meant to be really good but it has a arabic sounding name so most people ignore it thinking its the terrorism news network

Didn't a bunch of Al Jazeera reporters recently quit because they were forcing them to report on false news on the events unfolding in Egypt?

Their coverage of the US elections were really good. Especially when they were talking to Romney's PR team :v:

It's very balanced and objective, for the most part. However, if the Muslim Brotherhood is involved in any sort of way, they will downplay their role if they're doing stuff, or show them as massive victims if stuff is being done to them. AJ is owned by the Muslim Brotherhood, as far as I remember. So take news involving those guys with a pitcher of salt. Rest is generally pretty fuckin' good and in-depth.

[QUOTE=RainbowStalin;41885192]Al Jazeera is meant to be really good but it has a arabic sounding name so most people ignore it thinking its the terrorism news network[/QUOTE] what would you even talk about on Terrorism News Network

[QUOTE=Cone;41885322]what would you even talk about on Terrorism News Network[/QUOTE] Terrorism

[QUOTE=Zenreon117;41885027]Great, another source that can't be cited without people calling bullshit for it's own sake.[/QUOTE] an important message about journalistic integrity from facepunch user and RT / Alex Jones viewer, Zenreon117

[QUOTE=smurfy;41885358]Terrorism[/QUOTE] One person dead in a tragic incident involving fourty infidels surrounding him, forcing their imperialistic views upon him so hard he exploded. All infidels luckily reported dead too.

[QUOTE=Riller;41885315]It's very balanced and objective, for the most part. However, if the Muslim Brotherhood is involved in any sort of way, they will downplay their role if they're doing stuff, or show them as massive victims if stuff is being done to them. AJ is owned by the Muslim Brotherhood, as far as I remember. So take news involving those guys with a pitcher of salt. Rest is generally pretty fuckin' good and in-depth.[/QUOTE] The Muslim Brotherhood would only intervene if their stories had anything to do with the Islamic religion, otherwise anything that has no religious behind it is creditable. That's to be expected

[QUOTE=Cone;41885322]what would you even talk about on Terrorism News Network[/QUOTE] '72 Virgins' - Are they what you think? Tune in to TNN at 10:30 PM to find the shocking truth.

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;41885382]The Muslim Brotherhood would only intervene if their stories had anything to do with the Islamic religion, otherwise anything that has no religious behind it is creditable. That's to be expected[/QUOTE] You seen the reports on the second egyptian revolution they made? Skewed so bad, state media from the first one looked fuckin' objective.

[QUOTE=barttool;41885203]Didn't a bunch of Al Jazeera reporters recently quit because they were forcing them to report on false news on the events unfolding in Egypt?[/QUOTE] That's the egyptian goverment forcing them.

[QUOTE=Riller;41885403]You seen the reports on the second egyptian revolution they made? Skewed so bad, state media from the first one looked fuckin' objective.[/QUOTE] They were forced to, it's stupid I know.

Al Jazeera Arabic is where most of the problems are, AJE is run quite separately

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;41885431]They were forced to, it's stupid I know.[/QUOTE] Still means the source is biased, even if the journalists aren't. [QUOTE=smurfy;41885480]Al Jazeera Arabic is where most of the problems are, AJE is run quite separately[/QUOTE] AJE was biased as fuck under recent Egyptian unrest, too.

The only thing I've heard about Al Jazeera outside the internet/citations from small newspapers is exactly what you would expect from an old guy who sees "The Hurt Locker" and complains about all the troops dying in Saudi Arabia and wonders why all the terrorists from Muslim can't go back there [editline]asd[/editline] I'm honestly surprised he was knowledgeable enough to even know the name Al Jazeera

[QUOTE=RainbowStalin;41885192]Al Jazeera is meant to be really good but it has a arabic sounding name so most people ignore it thinking its the terrorism news network[/QUOTE] Al Qaeda Al Jazeera mind=never the same again