Al Jazeera America to shut down in April

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  1. PARTIZAN1

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    http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/13/media/al-jazeera-america/index.html

    Al Jazeera America to shut down in April - This was edited by so that I was not plagiarizing. Good news was announced at a suddenly called staff-wide meeting on Wednesday afternoon.

    The mood inside the newsroom was gloomy, the weather outside was grey and cloudy, the employees expecting the worst. sat dejected and looked like ISIS captive waiting to be slaughtered.

    "There are executives here in tears," said one senior staffer. "Doom and gloom."

    Those fears were confirmed at the meeting when a tearful Kate O'Brian, Al Jazeera America's president, delivered the grim news - the Middle Eastern Propaganda machine will close in April ....


    Good riddance !!! Now how about Russia's FSB-KGB propaganda network are you next ?
     
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    Al Jazerra America to shut down. One less bell to answer. [​IMG]
     
  3. Stuart Wolfe

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    He went there, folks - he went there!
     
  4. ArmySoldier

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    Am I just really tired and not thinking straight but isn't Al Gore involved with the American Al Jazeera? Once again, too tired and lazy to google :)
     
  5. tkolter

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    I actually like some of their stories especially regarding the homeless and poor.
     
  6. MMC

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    Now if we can just shut down the NY Times. Then more progress will be made.
     
  7. Pred

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    Boo Hoo. ??
     
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    Is it any surprise that Americans can't handle serious journalism which requires them to use their brains?
     
  9. Professor Peabody

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    Nah, we just know a pile of dung when we smell it. Eventually, the Brits will run, ya'all out too.
     
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    Nah.....we will just leave them with the Tabloids and Kim Kardashian.
     
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    of their reporting I have seen, I found them to be interesting and extraordinarily honest. It never seemed like any sort of propaganda at all. Better than our own networks do for sure. That said, I did not get to see much of their content because they were only included on my cable provider top tier package and I wasn't going to subscribe to a billion more channels to get them. The 250 or so I get are way too many already, considering I might watch 10 of them in any given month.
     
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    seems like liberal propaganda outlets have a limited audience and a short half life. CNN should take note
     
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    You mean like a fake story about Payton Manning taking HGH?
     
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    Sorry, but their rampant antisemitism has proven they are not to be taken seriously.
     
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    Actually, AJAM was one of the few halfway decent sources for news of the world outside the US in American television.

    Now, all that's left are the BBC and the News Hour.
     
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    Is this another one of those ... "Anyone who comments on the facts is an antisemite if the facts do not present Israel in a good light" comments ?
     
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    I watch it on occasion and while they may be reasonably honest when it is arab vs. arab I have never once seen a story where an arab terrorist attack on Israel is even mentioned.
     
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    Al was in bed with Al Jazeera. Just like Obama and Hillary are still in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood.
     
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    Good riddance, indeed. Al Jihad was never welcome in this country. The Emir of Qatar and his pals in the Muslim Brotherhood can pound sand back home.
     
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    You claimed that in your experience Aljazeera never mentions terrorist attacks on Israel. All I did was show you and example where they did.

    The question of responsibility is something else so I do not know what point you are claiming has been proven.

    I did not watch the video but nothing in the verbiage in the link states that Israel was to blame. The question is posed as to whether or not Israel might be partly responsible.

    There is zero that is antisemitic in making such a statement.
     
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    Wasn't there some controversy a while back where aljazera just happened to have cameras rolling as terrorist attacks occurred?
     
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    Serious journalism and Al Jazeera???? Where have you been?
     
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