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Article: In Arabic in English in D.C.: up to a point, Al Jazeera English looks like your cable news. Past that point, it doesn't. Not that you can see it, anyway.(MEDIA)
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- The American Prospect
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- January 1, 2007
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AL JAZEERA HAS BEEN CALLED "THE terrorist network," a "beheadings channel," and "a mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden." Yet there was Dave Marash, 64, Al Jazeera's improbable anchor, sitting at his computer in a seventh-floor corner office in its K Street location, surrounded by mementos from his work as an Emmy-award--winning Nightline correspondent--a William Gaddis novel on a shelf, an Eva Cassidy plaque on a wall, and a Ghanan akuaba'a fertility doll on top of bookshelf.
It's a radical career move. Currently neither his old friends from ABC, nor anybody else, can watch him on television in the United States. His new employer, Al Jazeera English, launched its ...