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August 20, 2013

Al Jazeera America Launches "Fact-based, Unbiased and In-depth News" Channel 
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The new television channel Al Jazeera America launches today. The U.S.
branch of the Qatar-based network Al Jazeera boasts some 900 staffers
and will air in roughly 48 million homes, reaching about half of all
U.S. TV subscribers. In a conference call last week, acting chief
executive Ehab Al Shihabi promised “a new channel unlike the others
... Al Jazeera America will air fact-based, unbiased and in-depth
news,” he said. “There will be less opinion, less yelling and fewer
celebrity sightings.”

 

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