Al-Jazeera America
Aug. 27th, 2013 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danalwynI've liked Al-Jazeera English for some time. It's a good news channel if you want to know something about what's going on overseas. So I was cautiously optimistic about their Al-Jazeera America launch.
I'm not impressed so far. I have to say that the front page to AJA, to which all American network traffic is routed, looks like a clone of CNN. Visually it's different, but if I wanted to read stories about American domestic issues, I would just use an American network. AJE's strength was always in the network of contacts they had in certain portions of the world that brought a different variety of stories to American viewers. Attempting to make it into a clone of an American news network is disappointing, or perhaps a testament to what American television audiences want as opposed to American internet audiences.
Oh well, not everything can be good.
I'm not impressed so far. I have to say that the front page to AJA, to which all American network traffic is routed, looks like a clone of CNN. Visually it's different, but if I wanted to read stories about American domestic issues, I would just use an American network. AJE's strength was always in the network of contacts they had in certain portions of the world that brought a different variety of stories to American viewers. Attempting to make it into a clone of an American news network is disappointing, or perhaps a testament to what American television audiences want as opposed to American internet audiences.
Oh well, not everything can be good.