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Article: News without the nonsense
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 20, 2007
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IT IS PROBABLY the world's best-funded television news operation,
and it has a team of experienced professional reporters. Yet after a
full year on air, Al Jazeera English remains unavailable to most
Americans.
Given constant public criticism about the media in the United
States, in particular the decline in television news standards, it
is surprising that Al Jazeera English has had such a hard time
breaking into the market. But cable is king in the United States,
and most cable providers have been reluctant to take on the new
station.
Some of their reasons are understandable. There is competition
for bandwidth among a variety of companies, from shopping channels
to sports channels to ...