The original Al Jazeera channel's willingness to
broadcast dissenting views, for example on call-in shows, created
controversies in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf . The station gained worldwide attention following
the September 11, 2001 attacks, when it was the only channel to cover the war
in Afghanistan
In the 2000s,
the network was praised by the Index on Censorship for circumventing
censorship and contributing to the free exchange of information in the Arab
world, and by the Webby Awards, who nominated it as one of the five best
news web sites, along with BBC News, National Geographic and The
Smoking Gun. It was also voted by brandchannel.com readers as the fifth most
influential global brand behind Apple Computer,Google, Ikea and Starbucks.
In 2011 Salon.com noted Al Jazeera's coverage of the 2011
Egyptian protests as superior to that of the American news media, while
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton also opined that
that network's news coverage was more informative, and less opinion-driven than
American journalism.
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