As a result of the illegal online attacks that have taken place over the past three days, the English language al Jazeera web site will stay down until mid-April.
In other words, the terrorists won.
In other al Jazeera news, their reporters have had their New York Stock Exchange credentials revoked. Because FOR NO FUCKING REASON!
Exchange spokesman Ray Pellechia denied the station's war coverage was the cause. Citing "security reasons," he said the exchange had chosen to limit the number of broadcasters working at the lower Manhattan exchange since the war began, giving access only to networks that focus "on responsible business coverage."
How would they know? Does Mr. Pellechia have Arabic speakers on staff to tell him the quality of al Jazeera's coverage? "Mr. Pellechia, hurry! There's a rush on tin!" "Damn that al Jazeera and their speculative recommendations!"
And to think I used to be critical that Americans couldn't tell Bin Laden and Hussein apart... now it seems they can't tell either of them from the Arab guy saying "the Dow is down fifty-eight points on the release of February's unemployment figures..." Am I the only one who finds this a scary and unacceptable level of tribalism? Look... al Jazeera won't be FOX News for the Republicans, but if they're looking to build democracy in the Arab world, perhaps the first step shouldn't be crushing the open media. I'm just saying.
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