Blast from the past: Obama and the Nobel Prize coverage

These 4 videos are from when  Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.  I won’t be writing an analysis, but pay attention to the dialog.

Al Jazeera English:

FoxNews:

Al Jazeera begins broadcasting in Canada

AJE also said it will open a Canadian bureau in June, in Toronto. This will make AJE the only international news channel with a bureau in Canada, the channel said in a release.

“We are extremely pleased that AJE’s groundbreaking news and programming is now available in Canada, one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world,” Tony Burman, managing director of AJE, said in the release.

Mr. Burman is a former editor-in-chief of CBC News.

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Frost Over The World

The closest thing America has to this is Larry King, and, well…

Hamid Karzai: President of Afghanistan

Hamid Karzai part 2

Casual Politics

Various clips of politicians being interviewed. The first two are local on local, the last is local on foreign.

BBC

Lord Pearson, of Britain’s libertarian UKIP party, interviewed on BBC’s The Campaign Show.

Fox News

Tim Pawlenty, Governor of Minnesota, is interviewed on Fox News by Sean Hannity.

Russia Today

Dennis Kucinich (D-OHIO), is interviewed by Russia Today.

As a side note: Russia Today regularly uses “analysts” akin to American media. They get a high number of official guests that aren’t corporate spokespeople, so it balances out in a weird way.