Al Jazeera Struggles to Be Seen (Los Angeles Times)

Few U.S. cable services are willing to carry the Arabic channel's English-language offspring. But it's popular online at YouTube.

Ignored or shunned by almost every cable TV provider in the U.S., the Al Jazeera English news channel has turned to the Internet to reach American viewers. Since April, when Al Jazeera struck a distribution deal with YouTube, the popular video site owned by Google Inc., the channel has received 2 million hits and on one day last month was ranked first, ahead of Paris Hilton and other staple fare. Only two cable providers, Buckeye Cable System, which reaches 147,000 homes in northern Ohio, and a small municipal service in Burlington, Vt., that is piped to just 1,000 homes, have so far agreed to offer it to their subscribers. The rest of the story: The Los Angeles Times