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Article: Al Jazeera English: fighting through stereotypes.
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- WWD
- Article date:
- December 28, 2007
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Byline: Susan Watters
WASHINGTON -- For anyone who can't resist betting on an underdog, Al Jazeera English is a 24-hour news network that might be worth watching. That is, if you can find it.
"Our great frustration in life is that except for the closed circuit cable systems of the Pentagon and State Department, which serves embassies in Washington, in America we are only seen on a few very small cable systems, two in Ohio, one in Vermont and one in the Watergate complex [in Washington]," lamented co-anchor Dave Marash, the award-winning, Jewish, former correspondent who spent 16 years working on "Nightline," Ted Koppel's nightly news show. Al Jazeera ...