Voice of America v. Al Jazeera

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George please check your HTML link but the NYT article you linked to was concerning Al Jazeera but not – given what you wrote – the same article.

wary of dipping my toes into this thread for some reason

Anyway ... the NYT article is a cut from a quite a detailed interview in the latest Columbia Journalism Review

Probably a better a source document for this discussion

In February 2006, David Marash, a veteran correspondent (and substitute host) for ABC’s Nightline, raised eyebrows in the U.S. journalism world when he took a job as the Washington anchor for Al Jazeera English, the new sister channel of the Arabic-language news operation in Qatar. For American viewers, Marash brought instant credibility to the new channel. Eyebrows rose again last week when Marash announced that he was quitting Al Jazeera English because of what he considered anti-American bias in the channel’s coverage. CJR’s Brent Cunningham spoke with Marash yesterday.

http://www.cjr.org/the_water_cooler/...t.php?page=all