When Al Jazeera becomes a major U.S. cable channel, as it plans, some Americans are likely to click past it, recalling the alleged anti-American tone by the pan-Arab network during the Iraq war a decade ago. "My guess is that when people hear about Al Jazeera, they will not be paying attention to the news quality or correspondents," said media analyst Stuart Fischoff, a retired professor at California State University at Los Angeles. "They will just hear Qatar, and say it's an Arab country and it's full of terrorists and ... therefore bias in the news," he said. The Qatari government owns Al Jazeera.
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Media analysts say the past anti-American bias of Al Jazeera has largely subsided
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But one group collects Al Jazeera video clips that it says show bias
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The decision to bring Al Jazeera into American homes is a political maneuver, some say
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The new venture will find the cable news market competitive
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