It's surprising just how good a new source Al Jazeera is. I wish my cable operat...

nodata · on Jan 29, 2011

In all seriousness, they could generate the news on CNN with an algorithm and it would be immensely better than what they pump out now.

yummyfajitas · on Jan 29, 2011

CNN isn't generated by an algorithm? I thought they were just scraping twitter.

borism · on Jan 29, 2011

CNN isn't generated by an algorithm?

it's called Proprietary Relevant News Generating algorithm also abbreviated as PRNG.

rasur · on Jan 30, 2011

It sounds a bit random to me.

arethuza · on Jan 29, 2011

You could probably get it from a "free to air" satellite broadcast.

teraflop · on Jan 29, 2011

Yep, here are the frequencies and technical specifications:

http://english.aljazeera.net/watchaje/20091022172112636517.h...

eschulte · on Jan 30, 2011

then call your cable provider and ask that Al Jazeera be added to the lineup, if they get enough of these requests they will act on them, the only question is how much is enough