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fadedrose

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7. I get the same channels you do...

Reply to gvstn (Reply #5)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 12:34 PM

Jul 2013

I think we didn't get Current because that's where Keith Olberman went when he was let go from msnbc - and Comcast was buying msnbc at that time - no friendship between KO and Comcast from what we heard at the time...

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Al Jazeera America [View all] Laurian Jul 2013 OP

I am looking forward to it, too. djean111 Jul 2013 #1

I hate to be a wet blanket. "Inside look at the internal strife over Al Jazeera America" Catherina Jul 2013 #2

I'm fairly certain gvstn Jul 2013 #3

Current is channel 107 right now, MSNBC is 185. House of Roberts Jul 2013 #4

I don't know exactly gvstn Jul 2013 #5

I get the same channels you do... fadedrose Jul 2013 #7

al jazeera has agendas like most all other networks Mosby Jul 2013 #6

Al Jazeera English is almost certainly the most balanced cable news service in the English language Douglas Carpenter Jul 2013 #8

Apparently, the American consulting firms they have employed are telling them to Cleita Jul 2013 #12

you know CNN Middle East and the BBC Middle East are far more intelligent and critical thinking Douglas Carpenter Jul 2013 #15

TYT won't be on... ablamj Jul 2013 #9

Too Bad no current on air personalities bhcodem Jul 2013 #10

I did post this yesterday, that they were having some internal strifes. Cleita Jul 2013 #11

If Greenwald doesn't like it, I might have to give it a shot... AllINeedIsCoffee Jul 2013 #14

hope to give it a looksy--they would have to have online version--pretty damn sure it won't be basic dembotoz Jul 2013 #16