The heads of America’s Arabic-language television service, Al Hurra, do not speak Arabic.  The network is in the news because it has broadcast, unedited, the speeches and interviews of extremists from Hamas and Hezbollah.  According to Helene Cooper’s report in the New York Times, one network executive “testified that network officials [make] sure to question the Arabic-speaking staff about what [goes] on the air.”  More here.

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