Dave Marash, “The Belle Of The Ball”

<img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20061123/capt.sge.oqz11.231106172109.photo00.photo.default-512×339.jpg?x=180&y=119&sig=li3w2w5KnPhgbBws29WZtw–" class="alignright" hspace=5 vspace=5"I was at the annual banquet of the Committee to Protect Journalists on Tuesday, probably the biggest gathering of the leadership of American journalists, and I was the belle of the ball," Al Jazeera English D.C. anchor Dave Marash tells AFP. “That’s because everybody in American journalism is at worst curious and at best really interested, and even admiring, of what Al Jazeera English is all about.”

More: “All of our competitors, CNN International, BBC World and the American networks, concentrate about 80 percent of their news gathering resources in Western Europe and North America. Al Jazeera English is going to concentrate about 80 percent of our news gathering outside of North America and Western Europe.”