In Arabic in English in D.C.: up to a point, Al Jazeera English looks like your cable news. Past that point, it doesn't. Not that you can see it, anyway.(MEDIA)

AL JAZEERA HAS BEEN CALLED "THE terrorist network," a "beheadings channel," and "a mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden." Yet there was Dave Marash, 64, Al Jazeera's improbable anchor, sitting at his computer in a seventh-floor corner office in its K Street location, surrounded by mementos from his work as an Emmy-award--winning Nightline correspondent--a William Gaddis novel on a shelf, an Eva Cassidy plaque on a wall, and a Ghanan akuaba'a fertility doll on top of bookshelf.

It's a radical career move. Currently neither his old friends from ABC, nor ...

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