Dave Marash tells AFP. "That's because everybody in American journalism is at worst curious and at best really interested, and even admiring, of what Al Jazeera English is all about."

More: "All of our competitors, CNN International, BBC World and the American networks, concentrate about 80 percent of their news gathering resources in Western Europe and North America. Al Jazeera English is going to concentrate about 80 percent of our news gathering outside of North America and Western Europe."