Robert Edmonds asked:


How can I watch ABC, CBS, FOX, CNN, and NBC TV channels on my computer

Folks have now discovered a new and revolutionary way to get to watch favorite TV channels from the major TV network channels like CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, BBC and FOX TV. This is by the use of a satellite TV program that is installed in your computer and helps you access over 3000 TV stations. The satellite TV software for computers is retailed online and the download takes less than 2 minutes to download and install in your PC.

The best aspect of this software is that it has a very high quality picture and sound just like the usual digital TV channels. Most of these TV network channels have started online TV services for their free to air programs which includes TV shows, drama series, and classical old movies, sports channels, shopping channels, educational TV stations and news. The free to air online TV channels offered by these North American stations are best viewed through a broadband internet connection.

What You Need To Watch the Major American TV Networks Online

In order to start watching seamless TV channels on your PC you will need a computer with at least Pentium III and a speed of 300 MHz. The speed is necessary to be able to stream flawless TV broadcasting into your PC. The processor should also have a virtual memory of 500 RAM to be able to hold the video picture without stalling.

A high speed broadband internet connection is advisable. Anything less will only has a lot of interruptions. Most European, Asian and American cities are connected with broadband internet and this need not worry you at all.

Usually satellite internet TV needs some minutes for buffering. This is where your selected TV channels is downloaded to your computer processor for viewing. In most cases therefore you will need to access the channels some 10 or so minutes before airing time of your favorite TV show.

Computer Satellite TV Program Download For NBC, CBS, FOX TV Shows

You will need to make a small set up payment for a PCTV software that enables your computer to access these online TV channels from major TV networks. Please visit my website and click on the beautiful girl’s banner at the top to download the software and watch satellite TV in 2 minutes flat.

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MAURICIO

gedger asked:


I say Fox News has many more liberals like Alan Combs and Greta for starters. I know CNN must have SOME conservatives. Fox News is fair and balanced, CNN is the Clinton News Network.
Still wondering about the conservatives on CNN. Here are a couple more libs on Fox. Geraldo, the beautiful Miss Powers, JD Hill.
I believe Glenn Beck is on Headline News not CNN!

OLLIE

James Saunders asked:


If so here is a introduction to what RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is and how your website will benefit from offering an RSS feed to your visitor’s. “RSS is used to provide items containing short descriptions of web content together with a link to the full version of the content.” (from Wikipedia)

According to a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 5% (6 million) Americans online consume news and information through RSS aggregators. So the market is already out there!

But what are RSS Feeds?

RSS is a smooth channel of communication between publishers and visitor’s. Since RSS has grown in recent popularity, more website owners are beginning to experiment with and use RSS feeds to deliver content in new and exciting ways.

But RSS is not only about text. You can easily use it to deliver audio content, video content and even PowerPoint presentations and PDF files. fox news RSS feed A number of RSS search engines and RSS directories exist that allow you to freely submit RSS feeds. Feeds are generally categorized and grouped together by subject. Web surfers looking for RSS feeds about a specific subject will often search the RSS directories, to locate a feed that matches their specific criteria. Topic specific RSS feed and podcasting directories are also emerging. Choose a web feed’s category carefully and only submit relevant feeds to topic specific directories.

Once Windows Longhorn is released in late 2006 users will be able to find, subscribe to and read RSS feeds all the while having very little knowledge of how RSS works. Microsoft is helping to make RSS very user friendly. At the top of each RSS Feed (when you look in the source code) you will see some important info as the date and time the RSS feed was created or updated.

Some RSS Features you must see are:

1. RSS is the free way of getting your content delivered every time.

2. Every time you update your RSS feed by adding new content items to the RSS file, the user is notified of that through his RSS aggregator, making the content immediately available to him, without it having to face any SPAM filters and other barricades on the way.

3. In a time when spam filters are blocking much of the content visitor’s have asked for, the biggest benefit to using RSS is that RSS gives publishers and readers the chance to connect, and for good ideas to be shared, without the clutter of unsolicited email messages.

4. You can add your feed to RSS search engines and RSS directories.

5. RSS can also enhance your search engine rankings as well (with advance scripts as the TrafficBoosterPro).

There is little argument from webmasters and publishers that RSS brings in traffic. RSS feeds have yet to hit the mainstream, but they are beginning to appear on prominent web sites including CNN, MSNBC, Yahoo, and even Google. While many sites are now publishing their own RSS feed, they fail to pursue the important step of promoting it.



DAVID

Jason Henry asked:


Today was either a bad news day or a slow news day. OJ Simpson dominated the headlines and the top news stories. He was on CNN, CNN Headline News, ESPN, ESPN 2, Court TV, MSNBC, and Fox News. He may have been on more of the major networks; but I stopped counting. As most of you know, Mr. Simpson and few of his buddies barged into a hotel room in a Las Vegas casino and demanded that a sports memorabilia collector give back a picture of him and former President J. Edgar Hoover. According to Las Vegas police there were guns involved. However; the fine men and women of the Las Vegas police department have yet to recover said weapon. As a result of Mr. Simpson’s stupidity, he is being charged with 11 felony counts which include kidnapping and robbery.

Now before I proceed allow me to make this clear. I am in no way defending OJ Simpson. After his acquittal in 1995; he should have moved to a country in a far away land never to be heard from again. So in response to most major news networks having their “best and brightest” newscasters descend on Las Vegas for a simple hearing; I have decided to write an open letter to each station voicing my frustration. My dissatisfaction stems from years of biased news coverage, reporting on non news stories and my displeasure with their treatment of the Bush White House.

To Whom It May Concern,

My name is Jason Henry and I am a disgruntled viewer. On September 19, 2007, you decided to devote the majority of your news coverage to a hearing on OJ Simpson. While I understand this brings back memories of Mr. Simpson’s trial in 1995; your decision to give his hearing so much coverage troubles me. In a society that seems to value things that matter the least such as night time soap opera’s and what Paris Hilton is wearing or who she’s dating, one is believed to think that he or she can count on real news stations to report real news. Unfortunately, this is not the case. It is a truly sad day when OJ Simpson trumps talk of President Bush naming the person to take over the Attorney General position vacated by Alberto Gonzales. I will give you an even better example. When General Petraeus came to Capital Hill to give his report on the War in Iraq; he did not garner as much coverage as OJ Simpson did this morning.

What ever happened to reporting on news stories that matter? Whether OJ goes to jail or not has no effect on our national security or who the next President of The United States may be. He has no bearing on if Congress will approve Michael B. Mukasey as the new Attorney General or if the 6 teenagers in Jena will have the charges against them dropped. These are the stories that matter to Americans; or at least they matter to the Americans that I know. Who cares what the judge has to say in OJ’s hearing. I don’t care that Paris Hilton cut her hair (I know this by watching your station) or that Lindsey Lohan received a visit from her dad in rehab. I will do you one better. Instead of talking about how awful of a human being Barry Bonds is for taking steroids (which he has yet to test positive for) how about holding Bud Selig’s feet to the fire for allowing this type of behavior to go on in baseball for so long. If you really want to talk about the lyrics in rap music; let’s have a discussion about the environment in which these rappers come from and why their lyrics may reflect their previous situations. I could continue on with my rant, but I will stop and say this. Please report on news stories that will affect American society, not stories that aren’t worthy of the front page of a tabloid. Thank you for taking the time to read my message and I hope that what I have to say will make a difference.

-JH



JARED

Mary Ann Boulette asked:


Copyright (c) 2008 Mary Ann Boulette

You have really made me angry tonight. It is my opinion that your “opinions” of Senator Clinton’s Bosnia trip, have gotten old and I am sure many viewers agree with me. Do you realize how very “silly” your “news” stories are becoming on this one “news” item. You are all just nothing but “gossip” reporters.

Have none of you ever exaggerated a story in order to prove a point? Frankly, I believe you do it every night. What is the point of this “news” story about Clinton and Bosnia? She is not basing her whole foreign policy experience on that one trip; she is just telling a story. She has probably told it a thousand times over the years and the times I have seen her tell it; it is quite a funny story. Have you never told a funny story and as the years go by, you add to the story to better make your point? Sure you have, I watch you do it every night.

Chris Matthews: Lighten up Chris! Why don’t you “report” the positive side of Clinton’s trip? For example, just the fact that she was in Bosnia is an interesting “news” item. Did Clinton perhaps carry any “message” from our President to the President of Bosnia or the negotiators? Why don’t you “report” on her meeting the soldiers in Bosnia and how much she cares about our soldiers? And the refugees, talk about them; did she meet them and speak with any of them?

Keith Olbermann: Why don’t you “report” where the video came from? Who taped the video? Who edited the video? It was edited; my old eyes with my bifocals can even see that. Was the video taken on the tarmac or in front of the base? Who verified that? Who is your facts checker?

Mr. O’Reilly: What did the pilot tell Clinton about snipers in the hills? What were the pilot’s instructions to Clinton and the people with her? Has anyone “interviewed” the pilot to ask him “exactly” what he told his passengers? What was the pilot’s name?

Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes: Why don’t you “gossip” about whether Clinton had a bullet proof vest under the long coat she was wearing? How many Secret Service agents were surrounding her and her daughter? Why don’t you “speculate” whether she was scared of any danger or concerned for her daughter’s safety?

All of you; stop “talking” or “reporting” or giving your “opinions” on a story about something that your viewers are tired of! Don’t be so extremely negative all the time. Now, I do realize that the 24/7 news cycles have changed the way that the news is “reported” and perhaps you often need to “speculate” and “gossip” to make your interview shows more interesting; but you are “beating a dead horse” on this story. (And no, I am not saying that people are tired of Hillary nor am I comparing her to a dead horse!)

Do something useful, like “vet” Obama so our country doesn’t elect another arrogant, inexperienced President. All of you are acting like “love sick” teenagers when it comes to Senator Obama.

Of course, all of this is just my “opinion” but then I don’t claim to be a news journalist either.



RUBIN

Edward Victor asked:


Edward Victor and Sarah Smith interview award-winning CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera journalist, Afshin Rattansi, about newsgathering and his novel, “The Dream of the Decade - The London Novels” published by Booksurge and available on Amazon.com.

Edward Victor: Afshin Rattansi, your new book looks at -among other things- the way news is made in newsrooms. Given that you have worked at three top networks, the BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera, do you think there has been any change since you wrote your book?

Afshin Rattansi: A character in the third novel of the quartet reappears to work at a large media organization around the time of the war on Yugoslavia. That war was covered in an extraordinary way and was widely criticised afterwards. After all, reporting on hundreds of thousands of people dying in the heart of Europe is what journalism textbooks after World War II were written for and yet, anyone using TV news to find out what happened in Sarajevo would have been confused at best. It was only after the war that some excellent programmes were made.

“The Dream of the Decade” deals with unwitting bias or unwitting lack of balance. Every story was nuanced by the life experiences of the kind of people that get the jobs in newsrooms. Though the book deals with coverage of stories on the environment, healthcare and many other issues, the in-built bias of journalists reaches its apotheosis with regard to war reporting. Whether it be the wars on Latin American states in the 1980s or the war on Yugoslavia in the 1990s, it’s remarkable how hard it is for a viewer to hear a spectrum of views on any war.

Edward Victor: You also started the developing world’s first English language 24 hour satellite TV news and current affairs network, based in the Middle East. As the man in charge, did you use your experience to produce news differently?

Afshin Rattansi: I hope so. Though I was the editor of the channel, there were the constraints any manager would have on the way we broadcast news. Most recently, at the BBC, one realised the constraints on a very well established network when reporting the run-up to the war on Iraq. At the Dubai Channel, we came from a developing world perspective and concentrated on the financial background. “Follow the money” was the watchword when we covered, say the Ethiopia-Eritrea war or the privatisation of natural resource management demanded by the IMF. I always thought it was interesting that Business Week outsold The Economist and that Business Week magazine was often the best source for really getting a balanced view of a story. Everything from the most local - for example, food resources or crime prevention - to the most global - say, Kyoto, the drug trade or nuclear arms - usually has private profit at the heart of it.

Whether it be Hollywood or the matter of Palestine, following the money is a pretty good way for journalists to cover a story…and being very wary of Microsoft’s “copy and paste” functions when allied to Reuters and AP wire stories. Reuters, after all, is mainly a financial services company and though it has excellent journalists, their “daily wraps” of the main stories of the day will not be those that most concern ordinary people, certainly not the greatest proportion of humanity or the greatest audience.

Sarah Smith: Al Jazeera is launching an English language station. The expert on Al Jazeera, Hugh Miles, wrote about (in Al Jazeera : How Arab TV News Challenges America) how the Arabic language station hired you -as an award-winning journalist- once the channel became more successful and wanted to raise its profile. Will you be working for the English language station?

Afshin Rattansi: I certainly haven’t been approached. And whilst I think it has the potential to be something great - even building on the work that developing world international stations have been making since the Dubai Channel - I’m as yet unsure of the direction the channel is taking. They’ve taken on some excellent personnel. I think what will be critical - not only for sound editorial reasons - will be whether they can carve a niche that separates them from industry leaders such as CNN, the BBC and Fox. There are a lot of free-to-air international TV stations, now. But Al Jazeera Arabic was different because its perspective was shared by a swathe of people from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean that just wasn’t compatible with the big corporate names in news.

Sarah Smith: But why have you not wanted to be part of such an exciting project - given your published work on managing start-up TV stations, getting cable access, writing remits and so forth? You were, after all, the first ever English-language recruit to Al Jazeera.

Afshin Rattansi: So far, I’ve already been told that there is no place for me on the network so, obviously, they’ve missed something very important in the start-up of the new channel! But, more seriously, it has to be said that within the industry, there are some great journalists who, I would have thought, would have been ideal recruits. International TV station start-ups are always complex and perhaps management of the new station has a long range plan that involves more commercial BBC-style news at the beginning to gain market access. My first boss at the BBC, Paul Gibbs, is one of the directors of the new channel so I know that they have some heavyweights when it comes to knowing the industry. He will be commissioning programmes and at the BBC Business Unit was known for innovative strands of programming.

Sarah Smith: The channel has hired some journalists very much from the neoliberal right. David Frost who is a friend of Israel even checked with the U.S. and UK governments before he would take on a job at the station. Their head of news, Steve Clark, produced extremely right wing programmes that were pro-Israeli. Do you have any fears about the channel?

Afshin Rattansi: As I said, start-ups are always quite fraught. And one must remember that there are a lot of people who are willing the failure of Al Jazeera International. I know Steve and he seemed relatively sane! I certainly don’t think it can be said - as some are alleging - that the English language station has been hijacked by the CIA or something, as some are having it.

As to the more disturbing bits of news we get about the start-up of the English language Al Jazeera channel, I think we should wait and see. Frost is a big name and TV stations do need stars. With all the money being thrown at the new channel, let’s hope that they are getting the really top notch producers and reporters and not those who are merely the dregs of big, corporate news broadcasting, looking for a tax-free salary and a bit of sun!

Edward Victor: The book that concerns TV news in “The Dream of the Decade” has been compared to Evelyn Waugh’s “Scoop”. Should it be read as a satire or did any of the things in the book actually happen.

Afshin Rattansi: Of all the books in the quartet, perhaps that one, “Good Morning, Britain” is the most autobiographical. Alas, some of the crazier things regarding the naivety of reporters are basically true. I certainly remember a very posh reporter who was unaware of public healthcare and when he went to cover a story about hospitals went to the only hospital he knew - a very expensive private one - so that the whole report became an advert for how wonderful medical care was in the UK. I’ve also met my fair share of war correspondents who delight in the perceived Hemmingway persona, obscuring the issues of geopolitical power in any theatre of war.

Sarah Smith: What broadcast news services do you think are good and how can journalism in general get better?

Afshin Rattansi: I think there are some gold standards at the moment. One of them is BBC World Service radio which whilst showing little in the way of innovation and often obscuring power-lines, still manages to feel truly global. Obviously, CNN when my little brother is anchoring is also excellent! I have to admit that Fox News, which is doing well in the ratings, at least puts its heart on its sleeve - tacitly admitting it has an angle. It is much more frightening to watch news which suggests that it is unbiased when it is.

Ultimately, it will be up to the kind of people employed in journalism. At the BBC Today programme - shortly before the editor was fired - there were the beginnings of a recruitment process that was genuinely based on grouping people from different backgrounds to be in the newsroom. In Dubai, there were journalists from every country East and South of Algiers. But it’s not just ethnic diversity, it’s class diversity. You wouldn’t find many frontline journalists at the BBC from London’s Peckham area, nor at CNN from Dixie Hills. Ironically, the ratings on programmes which employed them would do well as so little on TV reflects the aspirations and concerns of the majority. However, I don’t think advertisers are that interested in those with low disposable incomes. And, in the UK, which has weathered the dumbing down of international TV better than most places, executives at government-funded stations feel the need - for complex reasons - to compete with commercial content.



BILLY