October 28, 2004

Every cable news site should have a 'conspiracy theory' section! Get all the dirt on the latest middle eastern paranoia, through al-Jazeera's web site: Is Bush planning to attack Iran before the election? (62% say yes) Was Israel behind 9/11? (another 62% say yes) Was the US behind recent violence in Lebanon? (81% say no) Is Australia's PM suffering from an Aboriginal curse? (80% say yes) al-Jazeera, I love you.
posted by jimbecile 20 years ago
  • They all seemed to be sourced from other places (check bottom), there's even a Fox News one at the top right now. It's definitely a bizarre idea: take all the crackpot stories appearing elsewhere, and dump them in one place. To be fair, the votes are more a sign of Al Jazeera's readers than their opinions. If you want a good perspective on Al Jazeera, I'd strongly recommend watching the documentary Control Room. I certainly didn't come out of it thinking they were unbiased, but they aren't the pro-al-qaeda nuts they get portrayed as in the american media.
  • i was under the impression that Al-jazeera.com != the Al-jazeera news organization
  • what blogRot said.
  • Yup - aljazeera.net is the actual Aljazeera site.
  • Sure, that's what they want you to believe.
  • When multiple conspiracies cross over and cancel each other out, what can one believe these days?
  • Actually, yeah, does anyone have the scoop on aljazeera.net/.com? What's up with that? Is .com just a hoax, or is it another company trying to pass itself off as aljazeera, or what?
  • From network solutions: aljazeera.com: no contact names Current Registrar: TUCOWS INC. IP Address: 193.19.159.129 IP Location: UK(UNITED KINGDOM) Record Type: Domain Name Data as of: 08-Jun-2004 Updated Date: 30-may-2004 Creation Date: 12-apr-1996 aljazeera.net:Jazeera Space Channel TV station [snip] Domain Name: ALJAZEERA.NET Administrative Contact : Al Seddiqi, Salah [snip] Technical Contact : Navlink, Administrator [snip] Current Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. IP Address: 12.120.13.19 IP Location: US(UNITED STATES)-ILLINOIS-HERRIN Record Type: Domain Name Record expires on 29-Aug-2010 Record created on 30-Aug-1996 looks like someone got .com first, so the broadcasters took .net... there is suspiciously little information attached to the .com listing.
  • I was always under the impression that the .com was created with the direct purpose of discrediting al-Jazeera.