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Burlington Free Press: Keep Arab Network, Crowd Urges (6/12/08) by John Briggs
Vermont citizens continue their fight to remain one of the very few U.S. communities with TV access to Al Jazeera English. Briggs reports that, at the latest public meeting, "more than 50 people stepped to the microphone" and "only six of those who spoke asked the panels to recommend taking the station off the air"—those "opponents of Al Jazeera English [are] led by the Defenders Council of Vermont, a small organization describing itself as patriotic." Contradicting that notion of patriotism is one old-timer's quoted historical insight:Dick Weed, 70, of Charlotte said he watches Al Jazeera English on public access Channel 16 because it is "wonderfully informative." He described it as "an Arab BBC." "I cut my teeth on [Sen. Joseph] McCarthy," he said. "I don't like to see those who think the Constitution is only for themselves prohibit the rest of us from hearing a full variety of political [views]."
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