[mythtv-users] Who's going to be the first?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Thu Sep 2 22:54:06 UTC 2010


On Thursday, September 02, 2010 04:37:27 pm Dewey Smolka wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> 
>  I found France 24, I get it with SPB TV on my Blackberry. I suspect
> anyone watching Al Jazeera in the US winds on on some
> 
> > government list of "persons of interest". I'll look into RT.
> 
> Way OT, but I guy I went to school with helped Al Jazeera set up their
> DC bureau a few years back. They've actually got quite a high standard
> of journalistic integrity -- most of the English-language staff came
> from the BBC, and they seem to base their editorial and style guides
> on the World Service.
> 
> Yes, even mentioning Al Jazeera is enough to raise eyebrows (or worse)
> in the US, but they're a far more responsible news organization than
> Fox, or even CNN. It's a real shame that no cable/sat carrier that I'm
> aware of will carry them in the US.

I have heard the same, Al Jazeera is a responsible news organization, that has not fallen into the "infotainment" trap. My 
friends at CNN despair at what has happened to that network, but as they say, they have to eat.

Of course the US wants even people in the middle-east to watch the puppet network El-Arabia, or the Arab News Network, 
both of which are pretty much worthless as far as "news".

It's a sad state of affairs when I have to worry more about my own government monitoring me than I do about being attacked 
from the outside, but I am certain that routinely watching Al Jazeera would not be good for me. Even if it's not true 
(though I believe it is), just the fact that I have to be concerned about it is disappointing to say the least.

Getting back at least close to on-topic. It might be nice for Myth to have a "direct" mode (notice I didn't say "live") to 
monitor internet sources in real time, perhaps in a PiP window. With that feature I might be able to disconnect cable 
and/or satellite.







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