Al-Jazeera at 10: an Arab media island unto itself
17th Nov 2006, 05:22 GMT
When it first appeared, the new satellite channel broadcast from Qatar reflected its own name. Al-Jazeera -Arabic for "the island" - represented a haven of professional, independent, current affairs programming in a sea of one-sided, government-controlled Arab media. Until Al-Jazeera's mostly BBC-trained journalists arrived on the scene.
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