IT'LL BE OUR LITTLE SECRET:

Al-Jazeera TV network is asked to remove sign (JOHN HENRY, 7/26/04, Houston Chronicle)

When John Kerry glances around the convention hall in Boston this week, his eye will be drawn to brightly lit television network signs — ABC News, NBC, CNN, CBS, and banners for Hearst-Argyle and Belo.

Missing from the lineup is Al-Jazeera, the controversial Arab-language TV network that often is first to carry news involving al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden.

The Qatar-based network, which has 16 staff members assigned to the convention, was directed by convention officials to remove its sign. If it had remained, Al-Jazeera's sign would have been seen by millions of television fans looming over the shoulder of convention speakers.

As if there's much difference between Al-Jazeera and CBS, CNN, et al.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 26, 2004 10:16 AM