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“ CONNECTIONS Many Questions surrounding ... Al Jazeera America is the most ambitious American television news venture since Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes started the Fox News Channel in 1996. It faces some of the same obstacles that Fox eventually glided over — including blanket skepticism about whether distributors, advertisers and viewers will give it a chance. But that is where the parallels to other channels end, because Al Jazeera America is going against the grain of seemingly every trend in television news. “Viewers will see a news channel unlike the others, as our programming proves Al Jazeera America will air fact-based, unbiased and in-depth news,” said Ehab Al Shihabi, the channel’s acting chief executive, on a news conference call last week. He was explicit about what will be different, saying, “There will be less opinion, less yelling and fewer celebrity sightings.” [New York Times - Al Jazeera America Promises a More Sober Look at the News] Kennedy's "pound of flesh"(in 1988) was to illegally use his power to get even with Rupert Murdoch for publishing a series on the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident, and referring to him as "Fatso."   Kennedy's maneuver was cloaked in the argument that it was not in America's interest to have one man wielding so much media  influence.  If memory serves, Murdoch reached agreement to keep the Post by selling some television stations he owned.  What brings this to the forefront today is Al Gore's sale of his defunct Current cable property to al Qaeda— I mean al Jazeera—the public outlet for al Qaeda.  Excuse me, but would it be unfair to draw a parallel to that and, say, if  the NY Daily News was sold  to the German National Socialist Party in, say, August 1939?   Before Hitler had formally declared war on the world, but not before everyone (with half a brain) knew it was coming?  In this case, world Islam have formally declared it's intentions against non-believers. War! And we give them this platform?  Who are today's Ted Kennedy to raise the alarm, he said fatuously? As an aside, the sentence "One of the many questions surrounding the Kennedy-Hollings midnight maneuver ... "jogged this connection from my "Defining Articles section [Democrats subvert war intelligence] It’s one of the unsolved political mysteries of 2003: Exactly who drew up the plan for Democrats to abuse the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, or SSCI, as a stealth weapon to undermine and discredit President George W. Bush and the U.S. war effort in Iraq?