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Article: Al Jazeera English: The Brave New Channel They Don't Want You to See
- Article from:
- The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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THE NEW Al Jazeera English-language news channel, launched in November 2006, can be seen in 85 million households around the world, in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. In Israel alone, half a million viewers tune in to watch the station. That makes it one of the three biggest global English-language, 24-hour news channels-and the only one headquartered in the Middle East. This makes its reporting on Iraq and the Arab-Israeli conflict more relevant and more immediate to Israeli viewers than that of its closest rivals, BBC World and CNN International.
Even though the Washington Report's office is just a little over a mile from Al Jazeera English's downtown Washington, DC ...