When Al Jazeera becomes a major U.S. cable channel, as it plans, some Americans are likely to click past it, recalling the alleged anti-American tone by the pan-Arab network during the Iraq war a decade ago.
“My guess is that when people hear about Al Jazeera, they will not be paying attention to the news quality or correspondents,” said media analyst Stuart Fischoff, a retired professor at California State University at Los Angeles.
