The Al Jazeera English language broadcast will be launching a new show where media coverage is guided by what people are talking about on Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites, according to Wired's Dylan Tweney.
The show will be called The Stream, and it is set to appear later this spring, just in time to capitalize on all the western interest in Al Jazeera that is being generated by their outstanding coverage of the recent protests and revolutions in the North Africa and the Middle East. These revolutions have been fomented in part online, via social media, so it makes sense for the network to base a show around such influential outlets. The organizing principle of The Stream is that in place of a script or teleprompter, the hosts will make use of tweets, Facebook posts and YouTube videos.