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BBC goes head-to-head with al-Jazeera

Posted in Politics by Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli on October 29, 2005

Let the games begin.

In one corner stands the BBC World Service, the corporation’s venerable 70-year-old voice to the world backed by £239m of taxpayers’ money. In the other the upstart satellite TV channel al-Jazeera, barely a decade old, bankrolled from the bottomless reserves of the emir of Qatar.

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