David Marash: Why I Quit Al Jazeera's English TV Service.

Israel Faxx, April, 2008

By Columbia Journalism Review

In February 2006, David Marash, a veteran correspondent (and substitute host) for ABC's Nightline, raised eyebrows in the U.S. journalism world when he took a job as the Washington anchor for Al Jazeera English, the new sister channel of the Arabic-language news operation in Qatar.

For American viewers, Marash brought instant credibility to the new channel, even as it struggled to find a cable outlet that would agree to put it on the air. Eyebrows rose again last week when Marash announced that he was quitting Al Jazeera English because of what he considered anti-American bias in the channel's coverage.

"It's been a gradual process, and defining it all, is that with corporate encouragement, over the first two...

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