Al Jazeera documentary on laborers

[qatarperegrine]

Last week, Al Jazeera aired a documentary -- in Arabic -- on laborers in the Gulf. According to The Peninsula, a program that I assume is the same documentary will be aired on Al Jazeera English on Saturday evening. It's called "Blood, Sweat and Tears" and it sounds quite good. I may even have to (gasp) hook up a television so I can watch it. (Hey Samrya peeps, do we get Al Jazeera English? Which cable box?)

I'd tell my American readers to watch it too but, oh yeah, you can't watch Al Jazeera. Funny, that.

You may be able to view it here, though. Or it may be posted somewhere afterwards, like the Arabic one.

Comments

[materjibrail.livejournal.com]

I'm ashamed to say I hadn't noticed till this spring that we couldn't get Al Jazeera here ( of course, without cable we only get 3 or 4 channels anyway). I couldn't watch it in Qatar as The Writer of this Blog is even more restrictive than the US government and refuses *all* channnels. I did watch a bit in England.

Funny, I thought the US was fighting for Freedom

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

is Al-Jazeera banned in the US? Does that mean TV stations can't broadcast it?

[foobart.livejournal.com]

Banning a media outlet would likely be found unconstitutional under any reasonable circumstances; it's just not something the government has the authority to do. However the market demand for the channel is such that it's not available in most markets unless you subscribe to a tv service that includes hundreds of channels.

[materjibrail.livejournal.com]

So we don't even need censors: we censor ourselves! We are so brain-washed we don't ever think outside the box( to use a cliche approriately, as that seems to be all we are trained to do.)

somewhat related

[node.livejournal.com]

Though, focusing on the UAE (http://reddit.com/info/2fdli/comments).

Re: somewhat related

[materjibrail.livejournal.com]

EVERYONE should follow that link. These practices need to be widely known before they will be ended or even controlled

the doc is posted here

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.qatarliving.com/node/31787

Re: the doc is posted here

[qatar.livejournal.com]

Thank you thank you thank you!