“Al Jazeera International, the English version of leading news broadcaster, Al Jazeera, announced the selection of a wide range of Apple products to deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for the media organization,” AME Info reports.
“Catering to a wide range of media requirements, the Apple-based technology project is set to deliver a total solution ranging from editing to storage needs. With a reputation for using cutting-edge technology, Al Jazeera plans to use the latest from Apple’s portfolio of solutions to revolutionize the functioning of the TV station’s video network,” AME Info reports. “Al Jazeera International is 24-hour English language news and current affairs channel headquartered in Doha, Qatar. A subsidiary of Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera International is the world’s first English language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East.”
AME Info reports, “Partnering with Apple’s Independent Marketing Company for the Middle East, Arab Business Machine Ltd… Al Jazeera chose cutting edge technology which includes 41 MacBook Pro and Final Cut Studio for journalists, a 70 TB Apple storage solution using 10 Apple Xserve 7 TB XRAID and 14 Apple Xsan Software Licenses, plus 12 PowerMac G5 Quad, 2 PowerMac G5 Dual Core and 19 Apple Cinema HD Display 23′ for editing and design.”
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Sorry, my mistake. That should have read, Neo-Conservative Illiterature. Everyone knows there’s no such thing as Neo-Conservative literature! Silly me.
“I’m just happy that Islamic scholars saved Greco-Roman science, art and wisdom while the “Christofascist” Church was busy tearing down the “pagan” world and digging us deeper into the Dark Ages.”
I guess the fundamentalist muslims are just trying to take their turn by tearing down the “modern” world and bringing back the dark ages?
Listening to these neo-con loving morons bashing Al Jazeera International, when they obviously know nothing about it, is somewhere between amusing and depressing. The same idiots actually believe that Fox is “Fair and Balanced” and that Limbaugh is capable of telling the truth.
“Fair and balanced” is just another way of saying “supports my prejudices.”
critic:
No, not just taking their turn – fundamentalist Muslims are tacitly joining fundamentalist Christians “by tearing down the ‘modern’ world and bringing back the dark ages.”
By the way, in response to all those who consider Islam and terrorism synonymous (ergo the proposition that Al Jazeera = terrorist propaganda).
I don’t get how a small group of crazy extremists that go to the deplorable lengths of terrorism get to be America’s representation of Islam. I mean, look at Timothy McVeigh. Is he representative of the average American?
Islam = Terrorism = Democrats = Liberals
Al Jazeera sucks donkey ass!
@ Rick
Precisely my point, thank you.
Frank
you are too selfish in your ideals, thinking no one else, especially a conservative, could possibly be as enlightened as you.
you are illiterate to the point that no matter what is written, you read what your mind wants to hear.
you seldom offer anything to the intent of the post, as you prefer to play it safe and attack people who actually have ideas.
and yes, you are right, I forgot a comma. Busted by the Chief of the P.C. Police Department for jay walking! (and don’t forget, I am dyslexic, so don’t be biggoted)
moron = Rick ≠ average American
@ TT (or Titty, to be lighthearted):
Okay, by illiterate (which means not being able to read or write) you mean BIASED. That language thing again, it’s not easy. Kind of makes you wish people would just mean what they say, not say what they mean.
Sure, I’m biased. So are you. We all make one big piece of biased pie in this mad, mad world.
No worries about the comma, Titty. Forgive and forget. It was just too priceless it occurred in an accusation of illiteracy.
And, no, I won’t make fun of your dyslexia. Your lightheartedness, however, has nothing to do with your dyslexia, and I will make lots o’fun o’that.
(Thanks for considering me enlightened, by the way. You’re not such a bad chap, and with time, you can possibly be that enlightened. Just keep trying!)
Couldn’t wait to see the comments on here having read the headline. Glad to see the fair and balanced MDN readers didn’t disappoint.
In terms of Bush, with his crusades and his “You’re either with us or against us” idiocy, then Al Jazeera probably are considered a terrorist organisation. I say this because being neutral would be considered anti-American and borderline supporting terrorism. This is, of course, nonsense.
Al-Jazeera report things differently. There is a cultural difference. Where US news can’t even show pictures of coffins or funerals of their war dead, Al J will show acts of murder as merely reporting facts. It probably wouldn’t report US military picking up a soldier from hospital where she recovering from injuries sustain in a traffic accident as an heroic rescue.
It’s true that “Al” = “Al’, but I’m afraid to report that “Al Jazeera” /= “Al Qaeda”, just like “McVeigh” /= “McDonalds”
… and a happy Sunday to all you god-fearing posters of hate –
It’s the religious fundamentalists who are a danger to our world;
whether they be Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, or whatever.
Darwin* protect us from the religious nutters!
* who did exist, not God who, of course, doesn’t.
@Hywel,
I know the difference between Al Jezeera and Al Qaeda, but thanks anyway.
Islam = Terrorism = Republicans = Assholes
… Skip? Skipppppeer???
Help me, I’m trapped in a box of MacDailyNews stupidity!
moron = Donald = average American
It’s about time Apple starts putting a decent selection of arabic RAI music in iTunes, too. ‘Nother thing I’m sick of waitng for. Slowest-arse company to get the show on the road since snails were invented, if you ask me. heh.
The undeniable truth about Christianity and Islam.
Don’t worry, little buddy!!!
I’m here to get you out…!
I, uh, uh…
Now I’m stuck in here TOO!!!
Irrespective of the hate-filled, propagandist, biased, and intolerant views often broadcast by Al-Jazeera, it is refreshing to note that a large, international company has chosen Apple for managing its multimedia presentations.
Exactly how will politically correct liberals defend Apple’s cozy relationship with Al-Jazeera when extremist Muslim opinions and terrorist rants for the death of innocent men, women, and children are disseminated? My guess is that liberals will excuse the extremists and terrorist because the West’s hegemony has suppressed their voices, and it is only “fair” that a “balance” of opinion and thinking be made to compensate for Western dominance in the media.
Reading this drivel has forced me to come to one conclusion: All of you represent the attitude and stupidity of typical Mac users to the masses.
This is the real reason the average every day user will not switch.
After watching every thread degenerate into sophomoric political, anti-American rhetoric I want to switch off my Macs and fire up my HP.
You people of Earth are idiots!
Al Jazeera didn’t have anything to do with 9/11. It was an inside job. Remember Bush’s brother headed security for the WTC. All the buildings were pulled down by controlled demolition. One has to laugh at anyone who believes the official conspiracy theory. Go to the FBI site (fbi.gov) where does it say Osama is wanted for 9/11?
Hey check out what Al Jazeera has!
I wonder if FoxNews has one too?
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4B3ABFB8-9082-4B05-B399-7BF68D4A39D6.htm