Al-Jazeera starts today its English broadcast and is believed to reach 80 million homes in Europe, Africa and Southeast Asia.
What about the United States, that paramount of freedom of speech?
It was apparently unable to secure any deal with cable distributors, and it will only be available via the Internet (which might actually prove to be a better medium). BBC World Service was today discussing how "Commercial Interests" were behind this move.
Land of the free indeed...
More here and here.
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That was't a great start for Al-Jazeera...
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