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David Frost Joins Al-Jazeera TV

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British broadcaster David Frost, who famously interviewed President Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate controversy, will leave BBC-TV to join an English-language news channel on the al-Jazeera broadcasting network.

The Qatar-based channel, part of a network that regularly airs "exclusive” al-Qaida messages and video interviews with Osama bin Laden, views Frost as "key on-air talent” that should attract viewers in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Frost came to broadcasting prominence in the 1960s as the host of a series of news and current-affairs programs broadcast in the U.S. and Great Britain.

According to a BBC News report, Frost looks forward to reaching beyond his traditional British and American television audiences to report the news and introduce world leaders to new viewers of different cultures.

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"This time, while our target is still Britain and America, the excitement is that it is also the six billion other inhabitants of the globe," Frost told BBC News.

An al-Jazeera statement called Frost "the only person to have interviewed the last seven presidents of the United States and the last six prime ministers of the United Kingdom."

Frost's interviews with Richard Nixon after Watergate achieved the largest audience for a news interview in TV history.

In late July, NewsMax revealed Al-Jazeera’s plans to start the channel, with broadcast centers in Washington, London, Malaysia and Qatar.

Al-Jazeera responded to our report by sending a letter denying the claim that the new channel will be "pro-terrorist,” and claiming it will have "no domestic agenda and no political bias.”

But Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has described Al-Jazeera as "perfectly willing to lie to the world."

And Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly called it "a propaganda network -bent on encouraging violence and sympathetic to terrorists.”

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