Published September 2, 2009 at 4:00 a.m.
Seven Days reported last week that municipally owned cable TV provider Burlington Telecom is dumping Al Jazeera's English language channel from its broadcast line-up.
We got one letter supporting BT's decision to drop the Arab news network, and several protesting it.
Tonight, the controversy is the subject of a live call-in show at 5:25 on Channel 17 (BT channel 317). You can show up at the studio at 5 to be part of the discussion.
Blogger and VCAM producer Bill Simmon wrote about BT's announcement on Monday, then posted about it again today. He poses the following questions:
Tune in tonight. Looks like you might even be able to catch the program on CCTV's fancy pants new website.
UPDATE: Burlington Telecom's Ricard Donnelly responds to Bill's questions in the comments thread on that post.
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