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    Al Jazeera journalist not allowed to film at Texas high school football game

     
     
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    • Jason  •  8 mths ago
      W has a little note saved on his computer so that he can cut and paste hate messages whenever he sees Al _______ (fill in the blank)
      • GB 8 mths ago
        You know, I believe you.
    • Imma  •  8 mths ago
      I am wasting my energy responding to this irritating fellow who thinks that Al Jazeera i.d. will open the gate of heaven for him just by brandishing in the middle of hell.
      • Edward Eubanks 8 mths ago
        I respect freedom of the press. I respect the right for communities and their institutions to have and enforce policies that maintain order and protect their children.

        I respect all parties s long as they work within the confines of the nation's laws and their constitutional validity.

        If the Al Jazeera reporter was treated identically as a FOX News or CBS News reporter would have been, then I have no objections to the school enforcing its policies. Telling a reporter that he cannot film at a football game is fine as lone as no one can is fine (except authorized persons working for the schools).

        I guess all I'm saying is that I have no objection to the reporter being barred from interviewing or filming as long as the "rights" of th press are respected and the rules are enforced impartially and consistently. Arabic media included.
      • Jennie K 8 mths ago
        ALL local news agencies are required to let the school know ahead of time that they will be filming/interviewing students so that the school can inform them which students have been opted out by their parents. It is common knowledge to news media. Anyone who just shows up like he did SHOULD be turned away. Now, whether that happens in EVERY situation or not, I obviously can't say. But when it comes to student/parent privacy rights, that is the law.
      • Gamer123 8 mths ago
        I would expect a FOX or CBS reporter to be treated EXACTLY the same way, if he shows up the day of the game, and his entire credentials are a business card!! I can get a business card saying I work for the white house in about 15 minutes, and I can probably hire a camera to make it all look official. A business card? Come on! And even if he had real press credentials, I still expect a reporter to get kicked out under these circumstances. There are protocols, he should have told them days ahead what he had planned so they could vet him. Simple as that. Doesn't matter WHO he is, or claims to be. This was a set up, no two ways about it.
    • John G  •  8 mths ago
      This official was not politically correct! Someone call the PC Police!
    • Donna  •  8 mths ago
      I do like the Al Jazerra youtubes of Hamas childrens shows, effin whacko and the famous "How to beat your wife" productions, priceless.
    • Boston Blackie  •  8 mths ago
      Noor Almaleki of Peoria, Arizona.
      She was viciously run down by her father for being "too Western" and for refusing to marry a man chosen for her in Iraq. The unthinkable actions taken by Noor's father were also supported by her mother, who upon hearing that Noor was close to death responded, "thank you, that is what she needs."
      • Francolady 8 mths ago
        You are correct! Never thought that a woman in America and in Canada as well could die to restore the honour of her family
      • Boston Blackie 8 mths ago
        Boston Blackie:
        Democracy holds the seeds of its own destruction – Tolerance of radical activists, who could cause its downfall is one of those seeds.
        *
        James Madison (the acknowledged Father of the Constitution) said in the Federalist #10:
        ... there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
        *
        John Adams said:
        Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
      • Francolady 8 mths ago
        It is true!
    • Francolady  •  8 mths ago
      @!ZORRO

      LET ME TELL YOU THAT IT HAPPENED TO YOUR POSTS TOO!!!!!ON THAT YAHOO BLOG
      http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/new-york/muslims-police-scuffle-rye-playland-over-amusement-park-123309825.html
    • ! ZORRO  •  8 mths ago
      can anyone REMOVE someone's posts? It must be a YAHOO employee - how can this be stopped ???
      • Billy MO 8 mths ago
        By not leaving 100% off topic posts like the one above. Which of course will be taken down, as it violates guidelines. But i'm sure you'll use that to say that Yahoo is biased so you can get thumbs up.
    • Happy Days  •  8 mths ago
      Why haven't Texas seceded yet?? Because The Governor don't want to lose those Federal Jobs and Federal stimulus money.
    • Francolady  •  8 mths ago
      @ Exalted Cyclops
      Go on that Yahoo page and try to post a comment. The reason I am asking is that I believe a pro-Muslim is tampering with the posted messages by removing them. All my morning mesages that I kept reposting have disappeared. Here is the link:
      http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/new-york/muslims-police-scuffle-rye-playland-over-amusement-park-123309825.html
    • A Yahoo! User  •  8 mths ago
      FERPA rights? That only concerns what info a school may release about a student. Generally, nothing prohibits people from being photographed or filmed in public.
    • fairleyj51  •  8 mths ago
      "What Al Jazeera has done is achieve something that all of us I think want to achieve as we grow older, and that is to make a contribution that will last and be brought to future generations that lie ahead of us." - Senator John McCain

      "Viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it's real news. You may not agree with it but you feel like you're getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news." - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
    • Geogam  •  8 mths ago
      Why would the reporter want to go back just to hear some hick's opinion?
    • MockTurtle  •  8 mths ago
      Joke: An experienced American journalist who has a bachelor's in conflict resolution, walks into a high school unnanounst in the Era of Americas Most Wanted and Nancy Grace.
    • Jon  •  8 mths ago
      Donna...you are a #$%$ How was his approach 'confrontational'? I usually don't think people who ask to get into a HS football game with a smile on their face as confrontational. Cigouave...funny stuff.
    • jack  •  8 mths ago
      ya'll come on down to Texas,,, lots of minimum wage jobs being created, and you can have 2 cause we only want'cha 22 hours a week,,yeehah
    • Cigouave  •  8 mths ago
      "The only thing we have to fear is some guy coming from Brazil to watch a high school football game and then collect a paycheck from a TV network in Qatar."--Franklin D. Roosevelt
    • Donna  •  8 mths ago
      Legends in their own minds.
    • Devergonde  •  8 mths ago
      This is basically a non-story and y'all, both the patridiotic Merkins and you muslin commie fascist lovers have been successfully trolled.
    • Mike  •  8 mths ago
      Hey Cigouave,
      I gotta go, take care Muzzie!
      It's chow time and I gotta get the charcoal on my Bar-B-Que grill fired up...the charcoal used to be hard to get going until I learned a cooking secret...use a Quran to start the charcoal...works great...
      I'm grilling some PORK tonight...if your in the area, DROP ON BYE! You can tell me more about how the 50 year old pedophile prophet muhammad foced that 6 year old baby girl to marry him...everyone loves a good ROMANTIC LOVE STORY!
    • Cigouave  •  8 mths ago
      If I ever see Bobby Flay just showin' up somewhere expecting a cook-off, I am going to kick his rear straight down to Brazil. Let him go live with his suicide bomber Brazilian friends.

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