Everybody is on the Gaza situation. Even MSNBC has interrupted its weekend of rerun filler to cover it.
But if you'd like a decidedly non-American-centric take, Al Jazeera English appears to have reporters all over the place. And the Doha correspondent just had one of those exchanges with a spokesman for the Israeli PM that you just don't see on American TV. And if you do, it's usually followed by someone throwing a temper tantrum - remember the McCain campaign blackballing Larry King, the softest of all softballs, after Campbell Brown beat up a McCain flack earlier in the day? Those Israelis put their suits on with five-inch nails -- they're tough. Watch as the spokesflack gives as good as he gets. And they'll get right back on AJE and do it again in a couple of hours, if not sooner. And beam it into Israel, where AJE has (last I heard) replaced BBC World on the largest Israeli cable systems.
Remember, Al Jazeera English is streaming live on Livestation.
Al Jazeera is possibly the most courageous television station in the world, and what is the truth, unadulterated truth, every little bit of it. I myself cannot bear to watch it nowadays as the images from Gaza are just too terrible to bear, but the reality is still the reality.
Posted by: SAS | January 03, 2009 at 10:14 PM