The competitor is not al-Hurra, an American government channel beamed from Washington that has struggled, and largely failed, to convince Arabs that it is objective.
ECONOMIST: Arab satellite television
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Bashar Fahmi, a Jordanian reporter working for the US-funded al-Hurra TV network, was last seen in one of Yamamoto's TV reports, when he was sitting behind her.
BBC: Syria conflict: Japan reporter Mika Yamamoto flown home
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With the arrival of a CNN producer to run Al Hurra, the US-funded Arabic-language satellite TV channel has become "more like Al Jazeera, " Joel Mowbray writes in the Wall Street Journal.
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