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American Anchor Quits Al Jazeera, Citing Too Much Control From Qatar

Mar 27, 2008 -Dave Marash, the most prominent American anchor on Al Jazeera English, has quit the 24-hour news channel, citing an increased amount of editorial control exercised by the channel's headquarters in Doha, Qatar.

"To put it bluntly, the channel that's on now -- while excellent, and I plan to be a lifetime viewer -- is not the channel that I signed up to do," Mr. Marash, a former "Nightline"…

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