This is an article in the New York Times about the new AlJazeera International channel. As usual, you don't learn anything from an article in the New York Times. I learn more from a short article in the Economist than from a very long article in the New York Times. I mean, how much do you learn from a journalist who does not know Arabic to report on Arabic media. Oh, he did learn (from MEMRI) that Wafa Sultan was on AlJazeera. Then he says: " The English-language channel has been filling out its staff with Arab and Muslim journalists." Now, I, of course, have been following AlJazeera very closely. I am supremely interested in what they plan to do. I have spoken with two people involved in it. But what the NYT reporter writes is not accurate. In fact, I have heard complaints that the new channel is avoiding hiring Arab or Muslim (or Muslim American or Arab American) journalists. I know this first hand from people who applied or who attempted to negotiate with the station. I heard that the Washington, DC-bureau hired 100 people, and that only 3 of them are Arab or Muslim American. I am watching, very closely.