And some late Tuesday linkage

[pantryslut]

"Part of why Al Jazeera has become acceptable is that, unlike throughout much of the Bush era, it now has a full twenty-four-hour English language news channel filled with veteran reporters who came to the network from CNN, the BBC and other Western news outlets. When it was an Arabic language–only network, it was a lot easier to demonize and malign because fact-checking US officials’ fabrications [...] required a real effort." [Well, for English-only speakers, anyway.]

http://www.thenation.com/blog/158183/washingtons-sudden-embrace-al-jazeera-wont-erase-past-us-crimes-against-network

Not sure why they defanged the headline, though.

P.S. Do note the bit about GW Bush wanting to bomb Al Jazeera's HQ in Qatar.