My, folks are all in a lather over the recent announcement that Burlington Telecom is removing the English language Al Jazeera network from the cable line up. Flameape wrote a letter to Seven Days frothing at BT for their decision and we had several folks at VCAM today raising a stink about it too. I'll be writing my own letter to BT, asking that they reinstate the programming. We certainly don't need less diversity in TV news, we need much, much more of it. If it's true that BT pulled the channel because of some complaints from viewers, I am extremely disappointed in them. Here's a chunk of Flameape's letter..."From this decision by Mr. Burns we are to assume then that an international cable news provider that is watched by arab and non-arab citizens worldwide with an opinion and op-ed slant contrary to the current US administration and the hard-line Israeli lobby is bad for business, therefore to be dropped from the channel lineup. Because the Israel Center of Vermont and "dozens" of subscribers disagree with said channel's programming or consider it hate speech. If that is the case, then as a card carrying liberal in a sea of the same here in theBT area(and , until now a gung-ho potential BT customer- now rethinking who i will give my money to)- I demand the removal of FOX NEWS for it's "hate speech propaganda"(my opinion)! No deal, Mr. Burns? Well how about if the Peace and Justice Center and "dozens" ofBT subscribers rally on the phone, email, etc? How about any other station that a special interest group and a phone bank wants off the lineup? Sound ridiculous? That's because it is."