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Article: Al Jazeera's U.S. Face; Former ABC Newsman Dave Marash Is Getting Used to Explaining His Job
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- The Washington Post
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- November 15, 2006
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The moment Dave Marash told friends and colleagues about his new
job, the questions began flying.
Who? listeners asked skeptically. And why?
Nearly nine months later, he's still hearing those questions --
and it turns out answering the first one is simpler.
In February, Marash, a lifelong broadcast newsman, became the
Washington-based anchor of Al Jazeera English (AJE), the English-
language spinoff of the Arabic TV news network. When AJE begins its
first globe-spanning broadcast today, Marash will be its most
prominent American face.
Embedded in "why," however, are two other questions: How can an
American work for an operation affiliated with al-Jazeera, which
achieved notoriety -- ...