[jhamburger]

Let me put it this way- If I were running a cable company, and I had to make a pure business decision on whether to carry AJE, I wouldn't do it. People were up in arms over a "mosque" several blocks away the WTC site...People were outraged at our President's middle name. there would be a HUGE uproar if cable operators started broadcasting "muslim propaganda" in our homes. I'm talking mass boycotts.

[fwez]

They can watch it and make up their own mind. Can't they?

[RK]

Maybe if we had a la carte cable, but we don't...

[derleth]

If we had a la carte cable, they'd offer what they seriously thought people would specifically seek out and buy. FOX News is a shoo-in, but PBS and Al Jazeera would be much riskier bets.

[jhamburger]

People have been 'buying' PBS for many years now.

[derleth]

True, but how many of those people are there in a given cable provider's market?

A la carte seems like a huge incentive for the cable companies to drop channels, and offer a lesser product for what comes out to be a higher price.

[pyre]

If that's the case, then why don't they do that now? Carrying less channels would reduce costs, while raising the price would increase profit. One would think that we wouldn't have to force them to move in that direction it what you say is true.

[koenigdavidmj]

You give them far too much credit.

[j_baker]

I don't think so. How can you blame people for being ignorant when they are constantly being bombarded with ignorance coming from the MSM?

[j_baker]

The fact that it's owned by the Qatari government probably wouldn't help things either. Not only is it Middle Eastern, but it's controlled by a foreign government.