{"id":1044,"date":"2011-01-31T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2011-01-31T13:57:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T21:57:08","slug":"al-jazeera-blacked-out-across-most-of-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Grim: Al Jazeera English TV blacked out across most of the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This article by Ryan Grim originally appeared at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/\">The Huffington Post<\/a>, and is used by permission of the author.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/aljazeera-newsroom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/aljazeera-newsroom.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"aljazeera newsroom\" width=\"284\" height=\"178\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1048\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Canadian television viewers looking for the most thorough and in-depth coverage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/news\/egypt-news\" target=\"_hplink\">uprising in Egypt<\/a> have the option of tuning into Al Jazeera English, whose on-the-ground  coverage of the turmoil is unmatched by any other outlet. American  viewers, meanwhile, have little choice but to wait until one of the U.S.  cable-company-approved networks broadcasts footage from AJE, which the  company makes publicly available. What they can&#8217;t do is watch the  network directly.<\/p>\n<p>Other than in a<a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/watchaje\/20091022172112636517.html\" target=\"_hplink\"> handful of pockets <\/a>across  the U.S. &#8211; including Ohio, Vermont and Washington, D.C. &#8211; cable  carriers do not give viewers the choice of watching Al Jazeera. That  corporate censorship comes as American diplomats harshly criticize the  Egyptian government for blocking Internet communication inside the  country and as Egypt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/01\/30\/al-jazeera-egypt_n_815963.html\" target=\"_hplink\">attempts to block Al Jazeera from broadcasting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The result of the Al Jazeera English blackout in the United States  has been a surge in traffic to the media outlet&#8217;s website, where <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/watch_now\/\" target=\"_hplink\">footage can be seen streaming live<\/a>.  The last 24 hours have seen a two-and-a-half thousand percent increase  in web traffic, Tony Burman, head of North American strategies for Al  Jazeera English, told HuffPost. Sixty percent of that traffic, he said,  has come from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/01\/30\/al-jazeera-english-us_n_816030.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&amp;utm_campaign=013111&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=NewsEntry&amp;utm_term=Daily+Brief\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article by Ryan Grim originally appeared at The Huffington Post, and is used by permission of the author. WASHINGTON &#8211; Canadian television viewers looking for the most thorough and in-depth coverage of the uprising in Egypt have the option of tuning into Al Jazeera English, whose on-the-ground coverage of the turmoil is unmatched by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,164],"tags":[14,50,43],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-war-on-terror","tag-middle-east","tag-mideast","tag-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryjohnsononline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}