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Wouldn't it be interesting if someone like Keith Olberman went to Al Jazeera.
by phlux 16y ago
Wouldn't it be interesting if someone like Keith Olberman went to Al Jazeera.
- pmorici 16y agoWhy? Keith Olberman isn't a journalist by most objective measures, he's a partisan talking head.
- phlux 16y agoMy point was more; "Wouldn't it be interesting if [big, well recognized american media personality] went to Al Jazeera"
- dantheman 16y agoIt'd be bad because I want the news, I don't care who is giving it to me as long as its accurate and up to date. In fact I think media personalities are bad for the news.
- rajbot 16y agoDavid Frost, while not American, has had a show on Al Jazeera English since 2006: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/frostovertheworld/ http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/frostovertheworld/
- livejake 16y agoLike Anderson Cooper: http://twitter.com/andersoncooper/status/31518264634900480 http://twitter.com/andersoncooper/status/31518264634900480
- stevenbedrick 16y agoLet's see... he doesn't speak Arabic, so any "regular" journalistic skills he might have would be useless, and AFAIK he's not an expert on Egyptian culture and politics, so he doesn't have any special domain expertise that might be useful even without Arabic language skills. I'd personally rather hear more on CNN, MSNBC, etc. from actual Egyptian journalists.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoThere's an English version of al jazeera, where the anchors and reporters speak English and broadcast to the English speaking world. I doubt speaking Arabic is a necessity to work there.
- stevenbedrick 16y agoPoint taken, but a) they've already got plenty of good anchors, and b) many of the anchors (and all of the reporters that I've seen thus far) seem to speak Arabic as well as English, and can therefore do things like talk to people on the street, understand government broadcasts, etc.
- electra526 16y agoI think that's a fascinating idea - logistical problems (not speaking the language etc) aside. I'm NOT a Keith Olbermann fan. I think in America we have an incredibly luxurious journalistic class. They can whine and berate the powers that be all day every day without risking anything. Put someone like KO in an oppressive country with real stakes and it just might make him more responsible, thoughtful, thorough.