Al Jazeera is becoming a mainstream news outlet. Its reporters are everywhere in the world, and are increasingly often consulted by NPR and PBS and even CNN (which often steals their video feed from dangerous parts of the world). Their correspondents and editors are on Diane Rehms syndicated show frequently. Covers the world way better than CNN or any other American news organizations. I follow its excellent Twitter feed and watch it on TV here in DC too.
Around the country it's pretty rare.
Today it puts the US credit downgrade downgrade in perspective, with a story about starvation in Somalia: RT @AJEnglish: UN makes historic Somali aid drop: http://aje.me/pnJYO8
