Can Al Jazeera compete with U.S. cable news networks?

I don't see why not. Fox News and MSNBC are doing very well, despite having obvious biases, and Al Jazeera English has one numerous awards over the past few years. Just because they have a Middle Eastern name doesn't mean that they're going to be promoting terrorism or anything.

...but it will be difficult as our mainstream media will obstruct them in any way they can. Freedom of the press is a pipe dream.

The purchase and operation of US networks by foriegn interest should be made illegal, again.

Not with Fox News. And even to challenge CNN, they will need more than the instant markets that Current TV offers. They'll need a cadre of reporters, cameramen, anchormen, etc. And yes, I said MEN, because remember: we are talking about AL-JAZEERA, the network of the GLOBAL ISLAMIC MEN'S ASSOCIATION (with apologies to Ira Levin, who gave us "The Stepford Wives" and "The Stepford Men's Association."

I guess it's possible. Look at Fox News, it's owned by a "pro-sharia law" Saudi Arabian and too many dumb-asses in America have made them popular. Not necessarily newsworthy but present in the American market. It guess it's possible. Sad. But true.

it will be the news of choice for left leaning, America hating, anti-christian pud suckers. But like the rest, it's ratings will be behind Fox.

answer is No, same as Al Gore cannot compete with his ideas for the nation. Can you imagine what this nation would have become with a wimp like him in charge of the governement?

Why not? After all we do have our own propaganda machine called FOX News Network.

Well John, Fox News is owned by an extremist Saudi Arabian group. Many dumb-asses call Fox "news", but, it's more like mid-eastern propaganda. Who buys in to that?

The same man that owns FOX News also owns a large block of stock in the Al Jazeera network as well.

Ya think? How else would he spew his anti-information-press, like Fox?
Yeah. Some of the yanks are pretty well putting themselves into that box they claim they ain't going into. You gotta love the hipocrisy. Only in America.

And the stupidity of FOX Network junkies,

Oh no! Help Mr.Bill....now we have two, if not more, of those Arabs out to ruin America.
You know, they damn near ruined the Los Angeles Dodgers. That's how sick they are.
Give us back the Fair Doctrine Act.

The ignorant can learn, but the stupid will never admit they are ignorant.

People do conspire. A slow change is rarely recognized.

In case you haven’t been paying attention, FOX News has the lowest ratings in over 15 years. Some people have been learning.

Well, I don't watch anymore. So that's great. Now Al Jazeera needs to be contained.
Thanks for the information!

The left wingers need all the help they can get, even with all the other networks they have in their pockets they still can't beat Fox. So one more couldn't hirt!

Can Al Jazeera compete? OF COURSE they can compete. How could they not compete? Like every news station, they will present the news, and after watching Al Jazeera on netflix, I note three things:

(1) They broadcast more actual NEWS and less OPINION than many other networks.
(2) Opinion is always presented as opinion, NOT like Fox "News" does it, bu having the "newscaster" ask biased questions of some commentator preceding his/her partisan rant.
(3) NO COMMERCIALS, just an occasional blurb from Qatar Petroleum.

If you really want to see some in depth coverage of what is going on in the Middle East, Al Jazeera is essential. They do not suck up to the Israeli lobby and are unafraid of being called anti-semites when reporting on Netanyahu's latest plans for grabbing off more of theWset Bank and making negotiations more difficult.

Also, note the large number of competent people of color doing the announcing. I do not agree withAl Jazeera or any news station on everything, but Al Jazeera seems to be trying to be impartial, usually succeeds, and deserves to be heard.

I work overseas and have watched Al Jazeera and have found it to more even handed than supposedly American broadcasters such as CNN.

And probably tell the truth just about as well as most US systems.

They won't succeed. The MSM has been telling everyone of how peaceful the Muslims are for all these years so they aren't going to allow Al Jazerra, to ruin all that work they have done.

Just what we need another bias news network!

because any american will immediately call it a terrorist news agency because its middle eastern

Why not? Leave your feelings out of it and think logically for a minute.

sad to say only because they have a Muslim sounding name and most Americas have the wrong impression that Muslim = evil

Of course they can! They are alot less biased than ANY major US news station, especially FOX *cough* tea party propaganda *cough* news

And less biased than MSNBC.

we have 51% who voted for Obama Al Jazeera fits right in with their mindset.

ONLY IF..... They're properly COVERED!!!

But I thought they were ALREADY HERE??? :(

It's CAPITALISM folks... Anyone can compete with anybody! Hell, if some arab and an australian can own FOX news, which is number 1, duh... It only follows that this could happen.

Compete? They already blow them away if you're talking about world markets.

ROFLMAO!!! Yes.... Muslims & "Blowing Them Away!" Seems to have a commonality there somewhere! :)

Jihadist terrorists are Muslim. Jihadist terrorists are suicide bombers. Therefore all Muslims are suicide bombers.
Klu Klux Klan terrorists are Christian. Klu Klux Klan terrorists are racist torturers. Therefore, all Christians are racist torturers.

^ Your logic

Well maybe; except for the fact that there are a whole lot more Muslim Jihadis blowing themselves (and others) up than there are Klan Christians (and incidentally, there's not a whole lot of Jesus in there) torturing black people...or hispanics....or Jews (a hatred they share with the Jihadis, incidentally)...or Asians.....

Just because there are a lot of them doesn't mean that all Muslims are like that, which is my point.
I know quite a few muslims. I don't agree with their religious views, and they don't agree with mine, but we get along just fine without blowing one another up.

The kind of hate culture against the muslims for something a portion of a radical sect of Islam did is the same kind of hate culture jihadists have in the first place.

Christians are hating Muslims for something that they didn't do, which in turn causes Christians to be more and more radical themselves, and more and more like the jihadists.

One of the great strengths of terrorism in war is the fact that it turns good people against one another and destroys a culture from the inside out. The fact that Christians are now going after Muslims, calling them "Suicide bombers" and labeling them as terrorists is a plan and key objective of terrorism, and is a sign that the terrorism tactic is working.

Hm..interesting take. Thanks.

What's interesting?