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March 4, 2011

Hillary Clinton Praises Al Jazeera as "Real News" 
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has surprised many after she
praised the news programming on Al Jazeera, while she criticized the
over-commercialization of news programs in the United States. Speaking
before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Clinton said the
United States is losing the "information war."

Hillary Clinton: "Viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United
States because it's real news. You may not agree with it, but you feel
like you're getting real news around the clock instead of a million
commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind
of stuff that we do on our news which, you know, is not particularly
informative to us, let alone foreigners."

While Al Jazeera English is broadcast to more than 200 million homes
around the world, it is hardly available in the United States due to
what critics have described as a media blackout by U.S. cable and
satellite providers.



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