Dear 'Recently-My-Teacher-Told-Me-That-Al-Jazeera-English-Is-A-Questionable-Source-Not-To-Be-Used',

Tell your teacher that when the BBC stopped broadcasting BBC Arabic, in 1996 after two years, the newly formed Al-Jazeera "recruited a number of former BBC Arabic staff and devised its news and current affairs programme formats from programmes seen on the BBC." (BBC News, January 7th, 1999)

Ask her if she's familiar with the famous President Richard Nixon and David Frost interviews. You might draw a blank but fortunately there was a play based on the interviews which recently became a film directed by Ron Howard, or Richie Cunningham from Happy Days. So there is some chance of garnering a little recognition.

Tell her Sir David now works for Al Jazeera.

Ask her if she thinks Sir David is a terrorist or if his in-depth Al Jazeera interviews with the following, to name but a few, aren't worthy of attention:

           Martti Ahtisaari (Former Finnish president, UN Special Envoy to the Kosovo
           Peace Process and Nobel Peace Laureate), US General Wesley Clark,  
           Madeleine Albright, Tony Blair, Benazir Bhutto, Richard Dawkins, Benjamin
           Netanyahu, John Major (UK Prime Minister during the 1st Gulf War), Shimon
           Peres, Desmond Tutu, Henry Kissinger, Dennis Kucinich, Ban Ki Moon, 
           Álvaro Uribe, Jacob Zuma, Mikhail Gorbachev and George Herbert Walker Bush.

Tell her David Frost is journalism royalty; he's respected as such, and he works for Al Jazeera.

Don't tell her that she's a blinkered fool who should know better. Do what you have to do to pass her class but never forget that until you have to call them Doctor or Professor chances are you're actually more intelligent than them. They just have all the course notes, the syllabus and, in all likelihood, will have repeated the same lesson at least a dozen times.

Or, you know....print this off and leave it on her desk. Either or.