In an opinion column in USA Today, titled “Does Al-Jazeera belong in the USA?”, Souhelia Al-Jadda, an associate producer at Link TV’s Mosaic: World News from the Middle East and a member of USA Today’s board of contributors, laments the fact that more than one year after the launch of Al-Jazeera English, “no major U.S. cable or satellite company is willing to carry the station. Ghida Fakhry, an AJE anchor, told me political pressure has kept the channel out…
“Is Al-Jazeera English a mouthpiece for terrorists or a professional news network doing its job? Politicians and pundits should not be answering this question. Cable and satellite companies ought to broadcast AJE free from political pressures; then Americans can watch it and answer for themselves.”