The video program provides an important story of an attempt to censor Al Jazeera by refusing it continued access on Vermont cable. It seems some people oppose diverse critical press sources. Well presented.

I found this informative- but it's VERY problematic that they're reporting on themselves.

Good set of viewpoints, although I would like to see someone substantiating the Rumsfeld assertion about Al Jazeera propaganda. Hopefully someone outside of Al Jazeera will pick up this story.

I've asked my provider, Dish Network, to add Aljazeera to their lineup, but so far have not had any luck. It's a shame because their news reporting is some of the best in the world.

There are some people whose self-inflicted anxieties drive them to a state where sighting an unfamiliar new channel causes them to break out in cold sweat. While hoping for a decent daytime job, some of such elements opt to peddle doses of paranoia, expecting to end up as hawkers for an alarmist lobby. H.L. Mencken once declared that “the whole aim of practical politics” is “to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” Perhaps with such elements in mind, last year, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg actually went so far as to urge people to “get a life”, pointing out that “you have a much greater danger of being hit by ... More »