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Article: Al-Jazeera International TV Misses Launch
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- June 11, 2006
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DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
AP Online
06-11-2006
Dateline: NEW YORK
The English-language Al-Jazeera International TV network faces enough hurdles to make Olympic champion Edwin Moses tremble.
It has missed its target launch date and won't set another, has no public commitments by anyone to show it in the United States, saw its closest competitor beat it to the market and is the target of a pressure campaign by a group hoping it never airs here.
Al-Jazeera International's operators are nonetheless pressing forward with plans to create a worldwide news operation, despite a name that immediately raises hackles in the West.
"Give us a fair crack of the whip," urges Lindsey Oliver, the ...