Of course Al Jazeera has a bias, but it’s not what most critics think

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This is the Al Jazeera English anchor desk when the news service debuted in Washington in 2006.

By David Zurawik

PUBLISHED: January 9, 2013 at 7:02 AM CST | UPDATED: June 1, 2019 at 8:55 PM CDT

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