TWO Aljazeera News Networks?! Which is Which?

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Right, so, maybe i'm the last one to clue in to this, but their are TWO online news services claiming the name Aljazeera.

The one which you hear about all the time, often because terrorists constantly hand them tapes to air for the world, but which also provides very good coverage of events in the middle east and abroad, and which was featured in a well worth watching movie about news coverage and the war in Iraq called "Control Room", can be found at english.aljazeera.net

The one which you would expect to be the more reputable of the two, but which is actually an online version of a much smaller scale news magazine and at times has questionable reporting, can be found at aljazeera.com

The reason for all this is that the little guy got there first, and despite the confusion this constantly creates the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (and intellectual property court of sorts) recently ruled that's the way it's gonna stay.