correction
An Oct. 8 article erroneously attributed a ban on al-Jazeera reporters in Iraq to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. The decision was made by the U.S.-installed Iraqi Governing Council, and Pentagon officials say they had no involvement. (Published 10/10/2005)
Al-Jazeera, which is launching an English-language network with Washington as a major hub, has landed its first big-name Western journalist: David Frost. And the veteran BBC interviewer says he's perfectly comfortable with the unlikely marriage.
"I love new frontiers and new challenges," Frost, 66, said yesterday from London. He said the new network, al-Jazeera International, has promised him "total editorial control" and that he had checked out the company with U.S. and British government officials, "all of which gave al-Jazeera a clean bill of health in terms of its lack of links with terrorism."
