We Can't Hear Them

Summary


Al Jazeera English is a brand new television channel that broadcasts world news from a Muslim and Arab perspective. Its stories could help Americans understand the growing global conflict that seems to bear out Harvard Professor Samuel P. Huntington's 1993 prediction of a "clash of civilizations."

But the major cable networks and satellite providers have refused to carry it. So most American viewers can't get such stories as "Gaddafi: Oil Behind Darfur Crisis" and "Why the West Needs Ahmadinejad." We may not agree, but it's useful to know that many millions in the rest of the world are being told that the Libyan president charges that the West is trying to grab Sudan's oil wealth with its plan to send UN troops to Darfur, and that, whatever we may be told about the Iranian president, he is widely respected and may even be sought as a U.S. ally in dealing with the mess in Iraq.

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We Can't Hear Them

Many Americans know Al Jazeera as a propaganda mouthpiece that carried video ...

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