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Ugh. I read Aljazeera English fairly regularly a year ago, before Aljazeera America existed. I appreciated the solid-yet-concise reporting, the fact that there
by jackowayed 13y ago
Ugh. I read Aljazeera English fairly regularly a year ago, before Aljazeera America existed. I appreciated the solid-yet-concise reporting, the fact that there was little enough news that I could kind of read it all, and the fact that it wasn't as America-centric as I'm used to (nice change of perspective).
And now that they're trying to break into the US market, I see a page filled with tweets? I really hope that they don't think adopting CNN's "we'll just read a ton of tweets on air" strategy (which is what finally lead me to swear off CNN entirely) is how to win the US market. I was looking forward to them providing something a little more serious, kind of like NPR.
- austenallred 13y agoAljazeera America is decidedly not Aljazeera English, but rather an intentionally dumbed down news station to "fit into the US cable news market." I love journalism, Al Jazeera is fantastic compared to most of the garbage consumed in the US, but what is happening is truly a tragedy. A one paragraph description of a story with a Storify embed of a bunch of random reactions is also not journalism (unless the tweets have something interesting, unique or important to say).
- mbell 13y agoI'm in the same boat as GP, is there a way to force it back to 'Ajazeera English' short of a VPN? Aljazeera America has made the site worthless for me.
- readme 13y agoWhat is wrong with tweets? It's the future man... tweets are just replacing reporters on the streets getting opinions. Why go interview random people when you can just scrape twitter.