Al Jazeera

In the Line of Fire by Carlson, his article breifly talks about Al Jazeera and Hafez Mirazi. "He is the Washington bureau chief of al-jazeera, the controversial Arab TV news network". Al Jazeera launched in 1996 it wanted to produce new programming. It would bring up things that Arab tv never discussed like government corruption , polygamy in the Arab world. This helped to open up a new way for the Arab's. "It opened up freedom of speech in the Arab world". Al Jazeera ia very popular and has an audience of 35 million and about 150,000 in the United States. Arabs are made becuase al-jazeera has interviews with Israeli and American officials. "Al-Jazeera's unpopularity with Arab governments nearly runined the network's plans to cover the war in Iraq, Mirazi says". Colin Powell and Richard Myers went on al-jazeera for a brief interview. Al jazerra is compared to the American networks on the war coverage. CNN and other American media only covers the American side. "And you'd find analysts speaking about the Iraqi perspective and the Arab side, you won;t find that on American television". That statement is very true when ever i would watch the news on the war i would always see the American side. If we wanted to talk and see things on the other side they would turn us to the Iraqi defense minister.