Anyone able to load the Al-jazeera website?

chilleymac · March 24, 2003 12:57PM

I was curious if there was a way to load the Al-Jazeera website with correct translations. Or at least with some translation.

ghost_user_name · March 24, 2003 1:48PM

Moving to general discussion...

eman · March 24, 2003 2:14PM

Why?

chilleymac · March 24, 2003 2:23PM

I am just curious to see what kind of things prople in that part of the world have to say about the war. I am sure they have a very different view of things than the media outlets we have access too.

defiant · March 24, 2003 2:37PM

http://www.debka.com/

chic4mac · March 24, 2003 3:09PM

I was able to see the web site. I saw pictures of everything. VERY violent and GROSS...close up images of the dead soilders. Must be horrifying for those that want to see if is one of their own family members.

wotan · March 24, 2003 7:01PM

Um, *gingerly raises hand* Wouldn't this thread be more appropriate in Apple Outsider?

xionja · March 24, 2003 8:30PM

www.english.aljazeera.net

said the wallsteet journal. did not load for me. . .

clicking around on the arabic sight, they linked to

english.aljazeera.net/index.htm

still did not load, but appears to be their english site.

robo · March 25, 2003 10:50AM

Yeah, i've been trying to get onto Al Jazeera's site for a few days now.. no luck.

I assume it will be a good counterpoint to the Saccharined shit that Americans accept for 'news coverage'.

CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company)'s news coverage sometimes airs on CSpan.. it's a bit better, but i still don't trust it to be balanced. BBC news is also better than US coverage, but they're involved in the conflict, while Canada is not, so i'll go with Canadian news for lack of something better.

I would really like to see Arab coverage though. I'm sure it will be quite different.

Somewhere in between, one might find the truth.

-robo

ps. Yeah... this is basically AppleOutsider

not unlike myself · March 25, 2003 10:56AM

CNN reported that people are waging a 'cyber war' against the site in anger. (Yea team!)

Maybe that explains why it won't come up?

robo · March 25, 2003 10:57AM

Defiant - that debka site seems to be an Israeli run rumor site.. sort of a MacOSRumors of middle east news.

It's even more pro-war than the US news, from what i saw from a brief read. Not exactly a replacement for Al Jazeera

"Our sources tell us that the Fedayeen are armed with a new 'super gun' that fires chemical, biological, and nuclear shells, to be unleashed this week" vs. "Our sources tell us that Steve Jobs is armed with 3Ghz PPC 970s, to be unleashed this week"? Ehhh...

-robo

ghost_user_name · March 25, 2003 1:05PM

Quote:

Originally posted by robo

ps. Yeah... this is basically AppleOutsider

Eh, yeah. I was in such a hurry to get such a potential mess away from the Software forum that I slipped it into GD instead. Moving again!

chilleymac · March 25, 2003 1:52PM

I understand why this has been moved to AO. I may not have been clear enough about my question. I was trying to find out if it was a rendering, or a bandwidth or translation problem. In other words I was trying to find out if it was a software problem. I was not asking for everyones world view. I think it's interesting info, but that is not what I was after.

digitalmonkeyboy · March 25, 2003 1:55PM

I can. Translator doesn't really work though.

Good video links. Grab an arabic friend and get them to translate.

robo · March 25, 2003 8:19PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Not Unlike Myself

CNN reported that people are waging a 'cyber war' against the site in anger. (Yea team!)

Anger at what, exactly?

Anyone able to load the Al-jazeera website?

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