From the Marines to Al Jazeera

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Josh Rushing spent 14 years as a Marine Corps media liaison officer. Now, he’s a correspondent for Al Jazeera. In Mission Al Jazeera, he talks about some of the common misconceptions Americans and Arabs have about one other, and why they need to overcome them.

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