Article: Al-Jazeera English Struggles for U.S. Airtime

NEAL CONAN
NPR Talk of the Nation
06-04-2008
Al-Jazeera English Struggles for U.S. Airtime

Host: NEAL CONAN
Time 3:00-4:00 PM


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NEAL CONAN, host:

This is Talk of the Nation. I'm Neal Conan, broadcasting today from the Knight Studio inside the Newseum.

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CONAN: Washington D.C.'s newest museum devoted to journalism and the news business. Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld labeled Al Jazeera as a promoter of terrorism, and a news organization that spreads, quote, "vicious lies," end quote. Its reporters were subsequently banned from Iraq, but Al Jazeera has always contended that the news organization is grossly misunderstood by the West, in general, and ...

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