Al-Jazeera gets English voice in America.Al-Jazeera, the Arab broadcasting network infamous for its broadcasts of Osama bin Laden's video messages and other anti-American and radical Islamic diatribes, is launching an English-language network with a major base in Washington, D.C. In October, Al-Jazeera announced it had signed its first big-name Western journalist: Sir David Frost For other persons named David Frost, see David Frost (disambiguation). Sir David Paradine Frost, KBE (born 7 April 1939) is an English television presenter, famed as both a pioneer of TV satire and for a series of legendary political interviews. . Although not a household name in America, the British journalist's many decades as a BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. interviewer have made him one of the best known news commentators worldwide. An Al-Jazeera statement called Frost "the only person to have interviewed the last seven presidents of the United States Presidents of the United States President Political Party Dates in Office Vice President(s) George Washington 1789–97 John Adams John Adams Federalist 1797–1801 Thomas Jefferson and the last six prime ministers of the United Kingdom <onlyinclude> This is a list of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, and its predecessor state the Kingdom of Great Britain, from when the first Prime Minister (in the modern sense), Robert Walpole, took office in 1721, until the present day. ." The same press release said Frost "has joined the line-up of key on-air talent at the new 24-hour English language news and current affairs channel." "We are thrilled to have Sir David Frost join Al Jazeera International," said Managing Director Nigel Parsons. |
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