Arab TV to get inside DNC look: Al-Jazeera grabs spot in FleetCenter

[Scurrilous]

http://news.bostonherald.com/dncConvention/view.bg?articleid=36521

Full title: Arab TV to get inside DNC look: Al-Jazeera grabs spot in FleetCenter skybox

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"It's been called everything from the CNN of the Arab world to Taliban TV.

Next week, though, the controversial Al-Jazeera network will for the first time at a political convention take its place alongside other major networks in a skybox, providing live coverage of the Democratic National Convention from the FleetCenter.

``We're basically just a bunch of hard-working people of every ethnic background, working very hard like everyone else in the news business,'' Washington-based Al-Jazeera producer Stephanie Thomas told the Herald."

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"Started eight years ago and funded by the Emir of Qatar, the network now has more than 40 million viewers worldwide and is considered the No. 1 news source in the Arab world. It is available in the United States on the DISH Network while Canadian officials recently gave permission for a censored version of the channel to air.

The network has a Washington bureau, and reporters have White House access and cover Congress. Al-Jazeera, which will be affiliated with ABC during the DNC, has 16 staffers covering the convention who will work out of a FleetCenter skybox alongside ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox."

[realisticphish]

1. The only reason Al-Jazeera

is considerd "controvertial" is that they don't recieve *'s talking points...


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