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Article: COLUMN: Where's my Al-Jazeera English?

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Matt Stone
University Wire
11-27-2006
(Arizona Daily Wildcat) (U-WIRE) TUCSON, Ariz. -- When Al-Jazeera English launched Nov. 15, not many were watching: The English-language version of the controversial news network could not find any distributors willing to broadcast the channel in America.

Were the distributors making a reasonable, profit-driven decision or falling prey to chauvinistic close-mindedness? When their customers -- American television viewers -- fall for the same prejudices, it's typically hard to distinguish between the two.

In its inaugural broadcast, Al-Jazeera English showed both Saddam Hussein's intelligence minister and U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ...

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