Al-Jazeera starts US broadcasts with Jew-hating conspiracy theorist Stephen Walt
Walt rose to prominence as co-author of a conspiracy book about Jewish manipulation of American foreign policy and has been referred to by prominent liberal journalist Jeffrey Goldberg as someone who “makes his living scapegoating Jews.”It wasn't exactly a hard-hitting interview either.
Let's go to the videotape.
In the meantime, al-Jazeera has sued AT&T for refusing to carry al-Jazeera on its network.
Al Jazeera America has filed a lawsuit against AT&T over its refusal to carry the new cable news network.
Late Monday, the cable provider dropped Current, which switched over to Al Jazeera at 3 p.m. ET on Tuesday, meaning U-verse subscribers had no access to the new channel.
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In a statement, AT&T told The Times that it had not yet seen the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Delaware Chancery court.
"As a result of our inability to come to terms on a new agreement and due to certain breaches of the existing agreement, we have decided not to carry Current TV on U-verse," AT&T said in its statement.
Al Jazeera America is part of the global Doha-based news organization financed by the royal family of Qatar. In the United States, AJAM is available in about 49 million of more than 100 million cable homes via Comcast DISH Network, DirecTV and FiOS.
It is not available on Time Warner Cable, which dropped Current when it was sold to Al Jazeera America's parent company. Al Jazeera executives are currently in negotiations to regain carriage on Time Warner Cable systems, but those negotiations are likely taking a backseat to the operator's heated disagreement with CBS.Current was sold to al-Jazeera by former US Vice President Al Gore. Gore thinks they're a great station.
Labels: Al Gore, al-Jazeera, conspiracy theories, Stephen Walt
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