I love the “Get the lab” remark at the end.
Problem is, this is just a cute skit. What does it have to do with Jim Beam?
Scroll through the comments at this AdAge brief. They indicate Jim Beam has terminated its contract with the agency that produced this.
This video ran on Dutch TV.
I like the presenter’s chart. He does a good job showing first the results from this week’s vote in the Netherlands, then moves on to showing what the results mean in terms of seats in Parliament.
Short, sweet, informative.
Also, Reymond Frenken’s EUXTV is doing a great job covering the results. He has a playlist available below.
I think Al Jazeera’s campaign to find a US or Canadian carrier to broadcast it is a great idea.
And props to Tony Burman for formally trying to bring this station to Canada. It will be about 30 days before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission decides if it will approve.
I find it completely frustrating that some people in North America - especially, from what I can tell, people who don’t have a great command of media literacy - think this channel is anti-American. From what I’ve seen, anyone who has actually watched it finds the journalism to be top-quality.
Funny too that I see this story today after last night reading that:
“… But after 9/11 and the war in Iraq, Al Jazeera became Washington’s least favorite broadcaster. Its Kabul bureau was destroyed by an American missile in an attack that has yet to be fully investigated or officially explained to Quatar. Nor has the Pentagon ever satisfied Al Jazeera with its explanation of how on 8 April, the US Air Force fired a missile that wiped out the channel’s Baghdad offices and killed its correspondent Tariq Ayoub, who was on the roof filing live reports.”
- From the book Internaitonal News Reporting: Frontlines and Deadlines, Edited by John Owen and Heather Purdey.
Makes you realize they’re really up against it.
But considering the monotony and endless echo chambers on the 24-hour stations of CNN, Fox and MSNBC, I don’t understand why Americans are so resisitant. Why are we so closed to experiencing a different point of view - particularly when the journalism of Al Jazeera is lauded around the world? And particularly when our military is so busy with this part of the world. Don’t we want to at least see what’s up there? See their perspective?
Here is an interview done last year with the editor-in-chief of web and new media from Al Jazeera International:
It continues here: