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'I'm delighted were so politically active, but who knew they were so pro-establishment?' 'We reported live from the bar, but it meant having police snipers on top of the buildings, undercover cops around me,' Rushing recalls. The Al-Jazeera networks are backed by the riches of the ruling family of Qatar. The original Doha-based Arabic language channel is known in the Middle East for airing views that are independent of regimes in the region.

officials accused Al-Jazeera Arabic of being an arm of al-Qaida for running videotaped statements from Osama bin Laden and his aides. The visceral reaction among many Americans to the Al-Jazeera brand helps explain why, more than two years after its launch, the 24-hour English-language satellite news channel has been effectively shut out of the world's most important English-language market. In the U.S., it's available in just a few spots, including Toledo, Ohio, and Burlington, Vt.

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Livestation arabic tv#īut the TV channel is fighting to get in front of American and Canadian audiences. 'Part of the challenge has been the lack of awareness within the U.S. of Al-Jazeera English,' says Tony Burman, managing director of Al-Jazeera English. 'Obviously, another aspect has been the political stigma that's been attached to Al-Jazeera Arabic, and a kind of assumption on the part of some people that what they've heard about Al-Jazeera Arabic (a) is true and (b) applies to Al-Jazeera English.

'We challenge both of those notions,' says Burman, who was editor-in-chief of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. for eight years before taking the post at Al-Jazeera English. While actual ratings are hard to come by, Al-Jazeera English can be watched in more than 130 million households worldwide and is increasingly part of an international conversation, as its staff reports on and for people all across the globe.