Posted on 04/12/2016 3:04:19 PM PDT by PROCON
Al Jazeera America will fade to black on Tuesday night not even three years after it launched. But its CEO, Al Anstey, feels the news channel achieved something special.
"We are signing off but, somewhat counterintuitively, I believe we succeeded," Anstey said. "People believe passionately in what we did."
The channel prioritized sober, serious journalism. The way it was marketed -- as "fact-based, in-depth news" that gives "voice to the voiceless" -- implicitly criticized competitors for devoting too much time to opinion and official sources.
Earlier this year, the channel's owner, Qatar, decided it could no longer bankroll Al Jazeera America, or AJAM for short. Roughly 700 people will be out of work after Tuesday.
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Typical liberal logic.
Isn't obvious why no one watched it?
The American people rejected Al Jazeera America because of our hateful islamophobia. </moreliberallogic>
It took FOX years to get on the cable networks.
AJ got on in one day!
“Al Jazeera America will fade to black on Tuesday night not even three years after it launched. But its CEO, Al Anstey, feels the news channel achieved something special.”
To liberals failure is “special”. Truth to Powa and all that.
I hope Algore got paid his millions in cash.
Well, I guess that only leaves CAIR to write Obama’s speeches.
Did anyone interview Al Gore?
How do I interpret this move without Big Al’s insight?
This guy is trying to enhance his resume for his next failure...
Went the way of that super successful liberal talk show Air America.
Goodbye headchoppers.
Perhaps all the sleeper cells are now in place and they no longer need covert communications.
They realized that our national and public media are doing more than enough to undermine us without AJ.
The guy just oozes beta male, does he? What a leftist pansy.
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