This discussion has been held before. The 24 hr cable news networks here are too involved in the latest celebrity arrest or typical political hackery. Overseas it's different. I don't know if Europeans & Asians are more serious, but their news is .
Here's the problem however. The BBC doesn't allow their newscasts to be available online. Why? Because in the UK one must pay a yearly TV license. That's right, you have to pay a license to watch television in Great Britain. This pays for the BBC, which doesn't carry ads. You can listen to the radio newscasts from the BBC website or podcasts from iTunes.
Then there's Al Jazeera. This is the Qatar based news channel that is highly respected in the middle east, but hated by the authoritarian governments over there. Of course you can't get it here, because the Bush administration falsely accused it of being Anti-American. Just because they had the temerity to reveal the lies used to justify the invasion of Iraq.
A few cable outfits carry it in a few cities. Washington DC has had it for a couple of years, & NYC started a few months ago. But nationally? No. Directv & Dish? No.
This leaves the website. I was watching it a couple of hours ago. Quite well done. I watched it a lot during the uprising in Egypt last spring. Not much since then. Maybe if it was on my TV I would. It's not just arab news. They were reporting on the situation in Greece, Sarkozy on TV telling the french they might have to pay more taxes & give up their 35 hour workweek, & the feud between Sudan & South Sudan over an oil pipeline. Better than the latest on the Kardashians right?
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