Sunday, March 19, 2006
Al Jazeera goes global
By Gail Shister
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Published: 3/19/06
Excerpt:
Al Jazeera is ready for America, but is America ready for Al Jazeera?
The Al Jazeera Channel, the controversial Arab-language network that
has emerged as the principal television news source in the Arab world,
is going global with an international English-language spin-off
designed for European and American audiences.
Al Jazeera International has signed such mainstream talent as British interviewer David Frost, former "Nightline" correspondent Dave Marash, and ex-CNN anchor Riz Khan. ...
Still, the arrival of AJI may not inspire celebration throughout the
land, and here's why: Al Jazeera is perceived by many Westerners as a
mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. ...
Al Jazeera "clearly has a point of view, but so does Fox," says
Kelly McBride, director of the ethics program at the Poynter Institute
for Media Studies, a journalism think tank in St. Petersburg, Fla.
"There's a market for that in the world, and in the United States, it's probably a growing market."
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