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[richsena]

I never susceibes to Al Jazeera, but always onew it to be a reputable news source. Do they report with an anti-West/American slant like RT USA?

 

[ghost99]

The hero this country needs and deserves.

Hes the hero murica deserves, but not the one it needs right now

 

[bishoptl]

They had a lot of segments used in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Shame, it seems that they covered a lot of great topics.


I had to bookmark this video they made because it slayed me; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrH6UMYAVsk

Amazing.

 

[TheRealTalker]

I never susceibes to Al Jazeera, but always onew it to be a reputable news source. Do they report with an anti-West/American slant like RT USA?

no unless Climate Change and saying no to xenophobia and socialist ideals is anti america

but then again I watch AJE international and not AJ America

 

[Necrovex]

Incredibly depressing to hear AJA is being killed off. I adore watching AJE when I have the free time. I never knew people praised The Stream and their documentaries so highly. I only ever watched the news hour.

 

[Brakke]

Apparently, we only have room for like one or two dedicated sober news businesses. Our only hope is patronage. I worry that Bloomberg and Washington Post probably don't stick around long after their eccentric zillionaire owners stop running them on a lark. Bloomberg probably only got where it is because Michael Bloomberg wasn't allowed to pay attention to it while he was mayor-ing.

 

[zeroOman]

The original arabic version of Al Jazira is known for being kinda anti-semetic and biased. They also alter truths to fit their agendas sometimes, like this report on the discovery of Ardi where Al Jazira claims the scientific team used this to debunk the theory of evolution. The very first sentence of that report translates to "Darwin's theory, the one claiming humans evolved from monkeys, has been debunked" lol

Al Jazira English on the other hand is much more comprehensive and reliable, would be a pity if Americans can't access its content.

I think u misunderstand what they were going after... they were after the "evolution from monkeys", i thnik.

 

[Seraph_Nicholas]

Hope the America website stays up. I could care less about cable news, but I read their articles daily.

 

[richsena]

no unless Climate Change and saying no to xenophobia and socialist ideals is anti america

but then again I watch AJE international and not AJ America

Depends on how it's reported. Any time a news network chooses to have an overarching editorial slant (see: Fox and MSNBC) they've cast their net on their viewership. There seems to be a persistent myth that there is such a thing as zero bias in the news, which isn't true. Anti-majority sentiment in the news isn't something new, but it will always have a tougher time gaining new viewers when it's pandering a minority viewership.

I'll sometimes go on RT USA for the comment section, which is quite hilarious, but also interesting to see how the "other side" reacts to the same story.

 

[rjc571]

Al Jazeera unit responsible for Peyton Manning report will continue to operate. Looks like PEDton isn't out of the woods yet.

 

[Nuu]

Good. Al Jazeera America is a bastardized version of Al Jazeera English. At least it was when I occasionally popped my head at the channel and site a year or so ago.

 

[jufonuk]

Did not see that coming.

 

[Indicate]

I've never watched Al Jazeera America, but I do like Al Jazeera English.

 

[superdeluxe]

I was mad when Al Jazerra America replaced Al Jazerra English. Hopefully we get Al Jazerra English back.

 

[Delicious Waffles]

Technow : (

That's what I'm sad about. TechKnow was a great show.

Also, what does this channel being shut down have to do with beIN? Hopefully, that doesn't go anywhere. I just got that channel for free a few months ago after its been behind a paywall for the longest times.

 

[Sinoox]

Probably shouldn't have kept the Al Jazeera name. I imagine it's tainted in the eyes of many Americans and viewed with suspicion.

Sadly I feel this is what it is.

 

[RustyNails]

Great, at times hilarious and sad read about the way AJAM was run. Lesson in how to screw up badly. This Shihaby guy sounds like a total Lumberg jerkoff. The final days of Al Jazeera America

The founding CEO, Ehab Al Shihabi, made bold proclamations about matching CNN's ratings within a year. Yet he didn't seem to know the basics about American television news. He sometimes misidentified competitors, once referring to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper as "Anderson Cooperman." In a staff meeting, he seemed stumped by the funding structure of PBS.

Doha funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into the channel, but the Nielsen numbers barely budged. While Al Shihabi publicly downplayed the importance of the ratings, he fretted behind the scenes and repeatedly sowed doubt about the accuracy of the data. He also sought other ways to justify the investment.

"Our impact is reflected not in numbers necessarily, but in the end result of a chain of events triggered by our reporting," Al Shihabi wrote in a February 2015 memo. The memo told AJAM's top producers to "track the impact of our reporting on society and submit a weekly report, every Tuesday, to Kate O'Brian." The directive left its recipients perplexed.

Other memos reviewed by CNNMoney were borderline unintelligible.

Al Shihabi — who did not respond to interview requests — operated with great autonomy in the United States, with no real number two, and relied heavily on outside consultants to validate his strategy. High-ranking employees described him as a highly unpopular figure. He presided over a "culture of fear," AJAM senior vice president Marcy McGinnis said after she resigned in May 2015.

But along with pride there is also exasperation. If AJAM had been the first streaming news channel instead of the final cable news channel, would the outcome have been any different?

"Going back three years, I don't think we yet saw that streaming was absolutely going to be the future," a senior source admitted.

But Al Jazeera did make a side bet on streaming at the same time it launched AJAM. It set up AJ+, an online video startup in San Francisco that churns out news stories and distributes them via sites like Facebook. Its growth rates are impressive; AJ+ is having "influence," as Al Shihabi might say, for a fraction of the cost of AJAM.

Crazy shit.

 

[N.Domixis]

They should have rebranded, this whole time I thought Al jereeza was news from the middle east.

 

[Dominican Power]

Really fucking sucks not having a legitimate cable news channel to turn to.