Word: al-jazeera
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...boss of al-Jazeera International, Parsons is creating from scratch an English-language sister channel to the controversial Arabic broadcaster best known in the West for bringing Osama bin Laden to the world's television screens. In early 2006, al-Jazeera's English channel plans to start going head to head with the likes of CNN and the BBC in the battle for consumers of 24-hour news. The channel's budget is a closely guarded secret, as are the identities of the distributors and advertisers it is wooing, but al-Jazeera is clearly aiming high. "We think...
...idea is bold. The founding of al-Jazeera International marks the first time that a broadcaster based in the developing world will transmit English news and current-affairs shows to viewers throughout the U.S., Europe and the rest of the developed world. And there's more to come from al-Jazeera and its fabulously petro-rich bankroller, the government of the tiny state of Qatar. The English channel is the centerpiece of a plan to transform the company into a media powerhouse with greater clout in the Middle East and far beyond. "We are expanding to become a major international...
...secretaries of Defense or State in countries where they are traveling. The cultivating has to be done carefully. Some foreign officers have been ostracized by their militaries for pushing the U.S. line too hard at home. But the Pentagon has already seen some success. When officials learned that al-Jazeera was planning a potentially damaging story about the U.S. military, Defense officials say a phone call went out to a Persian Gulf officer who was an alumnus. He put them in touch with a relative working at the network who got the piece toned down. --By Douglas Waller
...indeed universal and not the private preserve of Westerners. And second, that American intentions were sincere. Contrary to the cynics, Arab and European and American, the U.S. did not go into Iraq for oil or hegemony, after all, but for liberation--a truth that on Jan. 31 even al-Jazeera had to televise...
...have taken the good with the bad ... In the end, I have just one question: How come I'm canceled and bin Laden is still on al-Jazeera?" --BILL MAHER, ABC'S POLITICALLY INCORRECT...