Good morning, America! al-Jazeera launches English language network

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Posted to Media on Fri Nov 17, 2006 at 10:02:29 AM EST (promoted by kiwiana). RSS.

By the time you read this story al-Jazeera, the independent Arabic news agency, will have taken another step in their growth as a media outlet through the launch of a 24-hour, English-language satellite news service al-Jazeera English (AJE).  With this evolution, al-Jazeera enters some heady competition with the likes of CNN and the BBC.  Undoubtedly, the news service will be welcomed throughout the Middle East as an attempt to report the news from an Arab perspective.  The question is how will it play in the non-Arabic world?

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