Al Jazeera to renew lobbying to be carried on U.S. cable systems

New York Times
If major cable and satellite companies like Comcast and DirecTV are willing to carry Al Jazeera English, they weren’t willing to say so on Monday, reports Brian Stelter. Currently, there’s full access to the network in only a handful of U.S. cities: Washington D.C., Burlington, Vt. and Toledo, Ohio.
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