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Al-Jazeera's expansion began in earnest last year when it launched a 24-hour all-sports satellite channel. Separate channels for children's programs and documentaries will join the new English channel in the coming months, and music and entertainment channels are also being discussed. Al-Jazeera's new...
Al-Jazeera's Arabic channel has gradually been toning down its partisan rhetoric since 2003, when Qatar's Emir and al-Jazeera's founder, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, a progressive ally of the U.S.'s, who is known to be privately dismayed by some of al-Jazeera's...
The Arabic channel may continue to dominate Middle East ratings--surveys generally show that more than half of Arab viewers tune in to its news broadcasts--but it is the English channel that will make or break al-Jazeera's name throughout the world. Al-Jazeera International will not be...
Al-Jazeera International has inked distribution deals in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. But Parsons is bracing for the coming political and commercial battles in the U.S. When a Wall Street Journal commentary recently accused the Arabic channel of collaborating with al-Qaeda, the article became mandatory reading...
Parsons blames al-Jazeera's negative image in the West on critics who do not even understand Arabic. "Somebody accused us of pushing a Sunni Wahhabi agenda on the world. I don't even know what a Sunni Wahhabi agenda is," he says. "Warts and all, the [staff members] have...