Al-Jazeera wants to come to America

Representatives from the Al-Jazeera network came to the Comcast building looking for a major U.S. platform for the 24-hour, Qatar-based news channel. About 250 million households around the globe have access to Al-Jazeera but fewer than three million of those households are in the U.S. Sean Yom, assistant professor of political science at Temple, said that Al-Jazeera was highly regarded by experts and that it had access in the Middle East that reporters for Western news organizations lacked. "People think the news is quite good and on the level of, say, BBC," Yom said. "The bias comes in with its commentary." But Yom added, "I don't think they are any more biased than other news sources."
Feb. 25, 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer