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Friday, 17 July 2009

If you can’t lick ‘em, co-opt ‘em: As a free-speecher, I’m not terribly concerned about Al Jazeera English being beamed into the Great White North. After all, with the likes of CTV and the Ceeb, not to mention CNN, MSNB and the other American networks, already broadcasting here, what’s one more anti-Israel news outlet, more or less? However, I do think it’s rather, ahem, interesting that a gent who’s been one of the prime movers and shakers behind Canadian state censorship has suddenly gone ga-ga for “free speech” in its A-JE incarnation, and is even promoting it via Twitter.
The smartest thing Tony Burman ever did was to appeal to the Official Jews’ vanity and invite them onto a special board of advisors to oversee A-JE content. (And should they object to anything they see, what then? Is Tony going to nix the offensive programming? Of course not. He’ll just give the OJs a chance to blow off some steam under A-JE auspices--which will have the effect of making the Jews look foolish--and programming will continue as before.)
Oh, and by the way, here’s an example of the kind of “balanced,” “unbiased” coverage we can expect to see once A-J-E hits our shores--a love song to Ur-Islamic terrorists, the PLO.

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