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[SoFloFreeper]

Al Jazeera America was going to be the final building block allowing the House of Thani to brainwash millions of Americans and influence foreign policy directly at the source. It was a grandiose dream for a tyranny...

Which really was a waste of time, since the big networks with their distribution and 99.5% of every "local" fake news source will carry the water for Team Obama will do the job--for free!

[Fido969]

"Worked out well for ME!"

[fatnotlazy]

I watched AJA when it first came on. Sure, it was biased, but I liked watching news that wasn't so focused on Obama 24/7. It had a lot of world news lacking on American channels, plus some focus on the arts (real arts, not rap music and Hollywood). There was even a cooking show with a woman dressed in Muslim garb showing how to make various Mediterranean/Middle Eastern dishes. It was a heckuva lot better than Current, which toward the end of its life kept playing an anti-Walmart documentary in an almost continuous loop.

It's sad that we can't have a news channel that is unbiased, that delivers all the news (not just stories that fit an agenda) and maybe reports more world news about things other than Obama, terrorists and overpaid celebrities.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Don’t give your TV channel a name that sounds like a roving band of head-lopping terrorists. It’s Marketing 101.

[I want the USA back]

That was their golden opportunity to bring that wonderful middle eastern culture to the USA and to make those bigoted Americans accept it.

Failed, because Americans aren’t THAT stupid. (Stupid enough to elect 0 twice.)

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al Gora got paid though.

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Great cat fight article. One of those battles where everybody sucks and everybody loses. A happy tale.

The only bad news is Gore got richer, but not as richer as he wanted at least.

[Pelham]

bttt

[Billthedrill]

Al Jazeera America’s leadership had been built around Muslim men and Western women. The Western women were experienced news veterans while the Muslim men often had no real qualifications for the job.

Oh, dear. What could possibly go wrong?

Behind the press releases, Al Jazeera America was run much like Qatar or Saudi Arabia where native Muslim nepotism hires bully and humiliate the imported Western executives who do the real work.

Ah, yes. Everyone who has ever worked overseas has either had this happen to them or knows somebody who has. But clearly, when they saw things weren't working out, they'd adjust the system, right?

But Al Jazeera America was not operating in Qatar and it needed to draw on a talent pool from two groups that its bosses harbored a pathological hatred for; women and Jews.

Hmm. That's going to be a little problem, isn't it? Can't just have your staff flogged like you can in the old country, more's the pity. I mean, heavens to Allah, some of them even drive!

So yes, this was probably inevitable, as is Qatar's impending foreign policy disaster, because no matter who wins in Iraq the one thing that is certain is that gratitude is in very, very short supply in that part of the world and a feller whose victorious army has been paid for by a small group of investors might just decide that all of their cash is preferable to some of it. Insh'allah, boys.

[dfwgator]

Al Jazeera failed because MSNBC was already there.

[martin_fierro]

When heads roll at Al Jazeera, heads roll.