Growing Numbers Of Iraqis Watch Al

Juan Cole 11/04/2003

Growing Numbers of Iraqis Watch al-Jazeerah

Reuters reports that about a third of Iraqi households now have access to satellite television channels, and that 62 percent of them get their news primarily from al-Jazeera and another Arabic channel critical of the US. (Reference below).

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page