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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAl Jazeera America is on the air. Who's watching?
I'm so used to getting corporate filtered crap for news I hope I can recognize real news when I see it.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)GentryDixon
(2,949 posts)It looks like we may have a real news source.
JeffHead
(1,186 posts)That's what I like about DTV they have all the new channels on as soon as they launch.
earthside
(6,960 posts)I've watched a bit on DirecTV.
What I like so far is that there hasn't been a third of a screen of news crawls, stock market crawls, breaking news alerts, etc.
It is kind of nice to see a full screen of video.
GentryDixon
(2,949 posts)we would never see on the "MSM" channels. Like the story just now about the radioactive tuna found in the Pacific. I stopped buying the frozen salmon from Costco about a year ago. I suspected the Salmon had to be contaminated after seeing all the flotsam washed ashore from Fukushima.
I miss my salmon! Selfish I know, after what the poor people of Japan are facing with this disaster.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,175 posts)That's good to see. (They're still showing it as "CURNT" in the program guide, so I guess it'll take a day or two for Tribune Media Services to catch up.)
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)I can wait. We can't slap a dish doodad onto the apartment building.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)that the weather effects the dish too much.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)The internet is fast, no trouble with landline, tv works good.
The people at the bill paying office are nice too. They poke around and give me a new deal when the old special runs out.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Everything I've read says there is a deal with ATT but so far, curiously, nothing. Ominously the channel Current was on has disappeared. Weird. Did the right wing zealot types cause ATT to breach the contract?
I'll give it a day or so but if it doesn't show up by then I'm going to find out why.
railsback
(1,881 posts)Sorry, no Snowden or Greenwald.
toby jo
(1,269 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)no cute people making love to the camera ,no moving backgrounds and fake excitement .
What a concept NEWS ------naturally the name will throw off the masses and it isn't in grove-a-delic hi def yet .
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)JCMach1
(27,556 posts)bending to the populist and the left...!!!
That's a win/win
democrank
(11,093 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Now ATT says it will not carry AJ America because they could not reach an agreement. I think that's baloney. I think they gave in to the foaming at the mouth right wingers because the station was listed yesterday and every article I saw was that ATT had a deal with AJ America.
This really, really irritates me and I'm going to tell them what I think of them ASAP.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)I would watch if I could.