(New York Times) - In the most ambitious U.S. government-sponsored international media project since the Voice of America began broadcasting in 1942, the slickly produced Al Hurra ("The Free One") Arab-language news and entertainment network is to be beamed by satellite to the Middle East - America's "fair and balanced" answer to Al Jazeera.
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