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]]> http://rethinkpress.org/http:/rethinkpress.org/AboutUs/feed 0 Al-Jazeera has fans in Obama White House http://rethinkpress.org/http:/rethinkpress.org/AboutUs?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hello-world http://rethinkpress.org/http:/rethinkpress.org/AboutUs#comments Sat, 07 May 2011 23:34:01 +0000 masteradmin http://rethinkpress.jake.ws/?p=1 [...]]]> Seven years after then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called the broadcaster’s reporting “vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable” and President George W. Bush joked about bombing it, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised it as “real news” in her recent Senate testimony.

Not only that, her staffers, as well as those of the CIA and the Obama White House, were attending the Congressional Correspondents’ Dinner as Al-Jazeera’s guests.

“They are a really important media entity, and we have a really great relationship with them,” said Dana Shell Smith, the State Department’s deputy assistant secretary for international media engagement…

Students and activists unaffiliated with the channel took up AJE’s campaign for cable and satellite carriage as a kind of political cause, organizing a national call-in day and setting up a Demand Al Jazeera Facebook page.

Read article at Politico

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