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THE RISE OF AL JAZEERA

Hillary Clinton to single out its coverage of
the events. Writer David Folkenflik reported that Clinton told the U.S. Senate Foreign
Relations Committee in March 2011, “You
may not agree with it, but you feel like you’re
getting real news around the clock instead of
a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads.”6 Senator John
McCain, one of the most respected members
of the U.S. Congress, also publicly praised the
efforts of Al Jazeera during a forum it hosted

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in Washington, D.C. Writer Keach Hagey
quoted McCain lauding its coverage of the
Tunisian uprising:
What Al Jazeera has done is
achieved something that all of us
I think want to achieve, particularly as we grow older, and that is
to make a contribution that will
last and will be brought to future
generations that lie ahead of us. I
want to assure you that these young

Photo from balcony overlooking
the main television
studio in the Al
Jazeera headquarters, Doha, Qatar,
20 November
2011.
(Photo by Wittylama with no
changes made)

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