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Al Jazeera English launched today

Today Al Jazeera English launched with an impressive studio and an equally impressive breadth of coverage, not to mention a much-needed Middle Eastern perspective on the day’s news. You can watch their first six minutes of air on YouTube. I think this expansion of the Qatar-based news network is a very good development in the quest for a free and democratic Middle East. Now if only someone in the US would carry it.