This may just result in a nice round of Canada-bashing (which is always fun), but I do have a question. Canada has just decided to permit al-jazeera to broadcast there - I found this interesting, and it made me wonder.
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/...tory/National/
My question is: is the reason regulatory or political why al-Jazeera is not broadcasting here in the US yet? I know next to nothing about television regulation here - it's just that there are a gazillion channels - one would think that al-Jazeera might have tried to get access here already. Does Britain permit it to broadcast there? I know Canada will be able to censor al-Jazeera fairly heavily if it wants to, not sure the same would happen here.
