Comment by JumpCrisscross

Comment by JumpCrisscross a day ago

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> You have to have learned AlJazeera, RT or Xinhua exist, because they're not going to be shown to you by normal channels

They’ve each run ads on billboards in New York. I distinctly remember Xinhua’s in Time Square.

fidotron a day ago

Recently?

Al Jazeera America closed down some years ago. (2016 apparently).

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JumpCrisscross a day ago

Definitely after 2016, but before Covid.

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- fidotron a day ago
  
  At the risk of a tangent, were Xinhua seriously fishing for a US audience? Or was it more kudos from the billboard?
  My parents used to be addicted to Al Jazeera, then some unspecified incident occurred and we were never to speak of it again. All very strange.
  
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