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Adam May leaving WJZ for Al Jazeera America
The Baltimore SunWJZ reporter-anchor Adam May is leaving the Baltimore station at the end of the month to join Al Jazeera America as a national correspondent. May, who has been at the CBS-owned station for 10 years, will go to work for Al Jazeera in June. But he will...Tags: CBS Corp., College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), CNN (tv network)
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World watches weapons in Israel, Syria; Americans prefer to watch them on the big screen
Israel and Syria continue to fight, Robert Downey Jr. continues to pretend to fight, and in sunny, pastoral northern Pennsylvania, a former judge is still getting international attention a week after his sentencing over what amounts to a human-...
Tags: Derrick Rose, Cinco de Mayo, Bribery, Barclays Center, Robert Downey Jr.
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Ali Velshi to join Al Jazeera America after more than a decade at CNN
The Baltimore SunAl Jazeera America Thursday announced that veteran business reporter Ali Velshi will join the Qatar-owned channel to develop and host a daily prime-time business show. The announcement comes one day after news that Velshi was leaving CNN where he served...Tags: New York City, CNN International (tv network), CNN (tv network)
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Why Al Jazeera buying Current is a good thing for media, country
The Baltimore SunI don’t care if Al Gore got more money than he ever deserved for his pathetic channel, or Glenn Beck got the short end of the stick in trying to buy it as an escape from his prison of media marginalization. All of that is ideological and...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Television, Washington, DC, Documentary (genre), Television Industry
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Of course Al Jazeera has a bias, but it's not what most critics think
The Baltimore SunReading some of the nutty coverage of Al Jazeera's purchase of Current TV from Al Gore, I am not sure whether the problem is ideology or ignorance when it comes to the sorry state of media criticism today. Last week, I explained why I thought Al...Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Satellite and Cable Service, Television, Television Industry, Current TV (tv network)
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A fire in Brazil, a fake fight in Phoenix and a real one in California
Dick Van Dyke brought his characteristic charm to the SAG Awards this weekend, and Internet users dutifully searched for all sorts of details on him -- anything to distract us from the icy weather that caused school closings from here to Ann Arbor. ...
Tags: Super Bowl, National Football League, IBM, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., Screen Actors Guild
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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Friday
WEATHER: Sunny, with sub-freezing wind chill and gusts up to 20-25 mph. TRAFFIC: Check our traffic updates for this morning's issues. TOP NEWS Flu season arrives early, hits harder than usual: Area hospitals are coping with a surge of patients with...
Tags: Taliban, Roger Goodell, National Football League, Ray Lewis, Current TV (tv network)
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What Al Jazeera thinks of Baltimore
Baltimore-area viewers won't see it in their TV listings, but this week a program will premiere on the Al Jazeera English channel that could do more to shape the world's image of their city than any other media coverage or civic promotion done all year....
Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Television, Documentary (genre), YouTube, Frontline Limited
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Here's the Al Jazeera film on Baltimore that cable TV doesn't want you to see [Video]
The Baltimore SunUPDATES with reaction to the film from Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's office... Using digitalmedia once again to end run the cable TV industry, Al Jazeera English posted its latest documentary, "Baltimore: Anatomy of an American City," online Tuesday...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Television, FBI, Movies, Television Industry
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It's outrageous that Al Jazeera English is not on cable in most U.S. cities
The Baltimore SunAl Jazeera English will premiere a thought-provoking and hard-hitting documentary about Baltimore tonight, but viewers here won't be able to see it on cable TV. That's outrageous, ignorant and maddening. That's the conclusion I came to last week while...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Documentary (genre), Television, Television Industry, YouTube
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Welcome to an age of interdependence
The outcome of November's presidential election will affect the entire world. Yet until the attack on our consulate in Libya, issues of foreign policy and globalization were nearly absent from the political discourse. There was talk at both parties'...Tags: Jihad, Petroleum Industry, Bill Clinton, East Timor, Los Angeles Times
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GOP exploits extremist violence
Letter writer Al Eisner betrayed his political bias ("Libya attack a direct result of Obama foreign policy weakness," Sept. 16) when he characterized President's Barack Obama's Middle East foreign policy as "left-wing" and "weak" — the partisan...Tags: Washington, DC, Hosni Mubarak, Barack Obama, Republican Party
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