Al Jazeera

[American_Jihad]

Whomsoever has the cash can buy any bloody thing they want in the USA.

Hey this is the way the rules of the game are played when we decided that money is more important than nationhood, that money= free speech and that corporations have rights.

Corporations matter, not nations, not citizens.

Welcome to the wonderful world of CAPITAL.

 

[American_Jihad]

I was wondering when this news would hit the wingnut airwaves. I thought we were the land of free speech? Did I miss some change. As Editec wrote above money manages the mind and behaviors of Americans today, if Al Jazeera is successful and it will be among some, the corporations will come back. Does anyone really think they are concerned with anything but profit. I loved that KIA was leaving them, while Korea treats our imports better than Japan who cares. Let's rebuild Detroit and let Korea take care of Korea. I am a very biased American.

That's why MSNBC runs the show LOCKUP all weekend long, rolmao...​

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[PredFan]

Al Jazeera has the best news coverage of any station.

Yeah? I'll bet they won't cover the abuse, torture, and supression of women, or the incarceration or murder of gays in the middle east.

You lefties are such hypocrits.

 

[PredFan]

All major companies stop advertising on CurrentTV before official name change to Al Jazeera America.


One hundred eighteen (118) companies stop advertising.

Full Article

Well, no wonder.
When they have to contend with this sort of mindless herd behaviour

CEO Ehab Al Shihabi acknowledged last week surveys showed 75 percent of Americans hadn’t seen any Al Jazeera coverage but still had a negative view of it,

why would any US company want to be seen to be associated?

Don't have to actually see it to have a negative view. One only has to know where it started, who's running it and who's backing it, and have enough common sense to put two and two together.

Dumbass.

 

[American_Jihad]

Meanwhile, on Al Jazeera America …


October 18, 2013 By Tom Thurlow

It has been almost two months since Al Jazeera America (AJA), the American outlet of Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera, debuted in the U.S. Viewers of the network note its impressive graphics and lack of commercials, a welcomed change of pace compared to most cable news in the States. The network also employs a host of familiar faces that help bolster AJA’s image as just another news network. It remains to be seen just how radical AJA will let its coverage becomes once it grows more assured of its acceptance into the mainstream. Already AJA’s Sunni sponsors have let the mask slip.

Despite a petition drive to exclude AJA from cable distribution, AJA’s coverage is definitely on the rise. Last spring and summer, AJA went on a hiring spree, hiring producers, writers, technicians, and hundreds of other staffers. AJA also snapped up big news names like Joie Chen, David Shuster and Soledad O’Brien, and then opened 12 American bureau offices. Broadcasting began August 20.

Of course, AJA is not just another news network. AJA’s parent company, Al Jazeera, is owned by the government of Qatar, the tiny, oil-rich, Sunni Muslim state in the Persian Gulf, bordering Saudi Arabia. Qatar is ruled by Shiekh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who, despite his personal business dealings with Israel, is pro-Hamas, pro-Muslim Brotherhood and anti-Israel. Al Jazeera’s news coverage has reflected those views.

In fact, Al Jazeera is so pro-Muslim Brotherhood it recently got kicked out of Egypt for instigating Muslim Brotherhood protests there. In 2008, Al Jazeera’s Beirut bureau chief threw an on-air birthday party for Samir Kuntar, convicted killer of an Israeli family.
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Meanwhile, on Al Jazeera America ? | FrontPage Magazine

 

[idb]

Al Jazeera has the best news coverage of any station.

Yeah? I'll bet they won't cover the abuse, torture, and supression of women, or the incarceration or murder of gays in the middle east.

You lefties are such hypocrits.

Here ya go..dumbass...

Women are the fastest growing population in the criminal justice system. Low level drugs offences and crimes associated with poverty have swept in hundreds of thousands of women across the US.
Many have spent years behind bars for non-violent offences.

In California, after promises of prison reform, women continue to face some of the highest levels of overcrowding.

And while the state boasts of significantly reducing the female prison population, county jails have disproportionately filled up with women who are still being swept in for the lowest-level crimes.

Women Behind Bars - Fault Lines - Al Jazeera English

 

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Meanwhile, on Al Jazeera America …


October 18, 2013 By Tom Thurlow

It has been almost two months since Al Jazeera America (AJA), the American outlet of Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera, debuted in the U.S. Viewers of the network note its impressive graphics and lack of commercials, a welcomed change of pace compared to most cable news in the States. The network also employs a host of familiar faces that help bolster AJA’s image as just another news network. It remains to be seen just how radical AJA will let its coverage becomes once it grows more assured of its acceptance into the mainstream. Already AJA’s Sunni sponsors have let the mask slip.

Despite a petition drive to exclude AJA from cable distribution, AJA’s coverage is definitely on the rise. Last spring and summer, AJA went on a hiring spree, hiring producers, writers, technicians, and hundreds of other staffers. AJA also snapped up big news names like Joie Chen, David Shuster and Soledad O’Brien, and then opened 12 American bureau offices. Broadcasting began August 20.

Of course, AJA is not just another news network. AJA’s parent company, Al Jazeera, is owned by the government of Qatar, the tiny, oil-rich, Sunni Muslim state in the Persian Gulf, bordering Saudi Arabia. Qatar is ruled by Shiekh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who, despite his personal business dealings with Israel, is pro-Hamas, pro-Muslim Brotherhood and anti-Israel. Al Jazeera’s news coverage has reflected those views.

In fact, Al Jazeera is so pro-Muslim Brotherhood it recently got kicked out of Egypt for instigating Muslim Brotherhood protests there. In 2008, Al Jazeera’s Beirut bureau chief threw an on-air birthday party for Samir Kuntar, convicted killer of an Israeli family.

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Meanwhile, on Al Jazeera America ? | FrontPage Magazine

That's all looking pretty positive...good for them.

 

[kiwiman127]

Iraq Bans Al Jazeera for Incitement to Violence


April 30, 2013 By Daniel Greenfield

While the United States invites Al Jazeera in, Iraq gives Al Jazeera the boot for the usual reasons like incitement to violence. Since Al Jazeera only does three things, incite violence, engage in propaganda campaigns for Qatar and run bland stories that provide cover for its two real purposes, banning Al Jazeera from inciting violence eliminates its entire reason for existence.

The problem for Iraq, now tightening it into Shiite dominated federalism, is that Al Jazeera is no longer just pushing generic Muslim terrorism or even serving as a forum for Al Qaeda, but is the main weapon of the Qatari royals in a Sunni-Shiite regional war. And a lot of Gulfies have already started talking about Iraq being the next front in the holy war.

Giving Al Jazeera the boot is a matter of pure self-defense. Iraq has seen what kind of mischief Al Jazeera pulled off in Egypt. It has no interest in letting it play on its own turf.

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Iraq’s government never guaranteed anything of the kind. No Muslim country does. But should one of Obama’s little toadies really be talking after the White House launched Operation Rushbo? And has worked to demonize and marginalize FOX News?

Iraq Bans Al Jazeera for Incitement to Violence | FrontPage Magazine

Iraq has been trying to control the press/media for quite awhile. The Shiite led government of Iraq has been trying to control the press for quite awhile, particularly the coverage of the Shiite-Sunni Civil War and the governments handling of that war..
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Sunday’s decision is not the first time Iraqi authorities have sought to restrict the operations of foreign media outlets in the country. In June 2012, Iraq's Communications and Media Commission (CMC) placed restrictions on 39 media outlets, including the BBC and Voice of America, over alleged licensing problems, AFP reported.

The Journalism Freedoms Observatory (JFO) in Iraq claims that the CMC had recommended banning 44 news outlets.

Iraq is often at the bottom of global press freedom rankings. In 2013, Reporters Without Borders placed it 150th in media rights on its annual World Press Freedom Index, trailing Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Iraq suspends Al Jazeera, other networks for ?promoting violence? ? RT News
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I report, you decide.

 

[American_Jihad]

Goodbye to Al Jazeera America

Americans weren't too impressed.

January 15, 2016
Hugh Fitzgerald

Perhaps you, too, have been feeling a bit forlorn lately. After all, the news that greets you every day goes something like this: an attack, or two, using bombs or guns or machetes or knives, by Muslims, somewhere in the world, from Jakarta to Mumbai to Paris to San Bernardino, with lots of stops in between, and the killers, if they say anything at all, explain that they are dutifully following the dictates of Islam, as found in Qur’an and Hadith and Sira, and then, of course, there follows a mind-dizzying display of official denials, all over the Western world, denials that any of these many attacks by Muslims, that any of that allahu-akbaring and citing of Islamic texts could possibly have anything to do with Islam. But you’ve read, and studied, and correctly concluded otherwise — sufficient unto the day is the Muslim evil thereof — and so upon you a kind of despair descends.
Now comes news of something that I think will cheer you up. Al Jazeera has just announced that it will shut down entirely its American operation — Al Jazeera America — in April. You’ve heard about Al Jazeera America when it bought out the cable channel Current TV, and took over its American subscribers. One of the owners of Current TV was that famous environmentalist Al Gore, who stood to make $100 million from the sale. He claimed that the sale was a Good Thing, that far from being a propaganda organ of the waddling emir of little Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Al Jazeera America “gave voice to those who are not typically heard,” and what’s more, “spoke truth to power.” He continued to praise Al Jazeera for quite some time, as a “really distinguished and effective news organization” in 2012, but by 2014, he didn’t quite see the station the same way, and he was now suing Al Jazeera for being “underhanded” and guilty of fraud, because, you see, Al Jazeera didn’t pay Al Gore all that Al Gore thought he had coming to him.
Apparently the American public did not agree that Al Jazeera was a “distinguished” and “effective” news channel that “spoke truth to power,” and Al Jazeera continuously lost money and audience. News reports about AJAM did not inspire confidence. The latest is a lawsuit by Shannon High-Basalik, AJAM’s former senior vice-president of programming and documentaries, who said that she “witnessed the channel abandon ‘journalistic integrity’ in order to ‘advance a pro-Arabic/Middle Eastern agenda often at the expense of Jewish people.'” She further charged that “AJAM management invoked the conspiracy theory that the 9/11 terror attack was a CIA plot,” and in her suit detailed “what she said were blatantly discriminatory practices against women and non-Arab employees.”
And the lawsuits, and the firings, continue apace. From Wikipedia: “On April 28, 2015, Matthew Luke, Al Jazeera America’s former Supervisor of Media and Archive Management, filed a US$15 million lawsuit against his former employers over unfair dismissal. Luke alleged that he had been unfairly dismissed by the network after he had raised concerns with the human resource division that his boss, Osman Mahmud, the Senior Vice-President of Broadcast Operations and Technology, discriminated against female employees and made anti-Semitic remarks…. In an unrelated development, two female Al Jazeera America employees—Diana Lee, the Executive Vice-President for Human Resources, and Dawn Bridges, the Executive Vice President for Communications, had resigned that week.” Just google “Al Jazeera and lawsuits” for much more.

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Goodbye to Al Jazeera America

 

[Political Junky]

I'd certainly choose to watch Al Jazeera over Fox.

 

[American_Jihad]

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Al Jazeera America is off the air. Florida Family Association's efforts influenced 260 out of 275 (95%) companies to stop advertising.

Great News! Al Jazeera America is off the air. Comcast Channel 107 has not aired Al Jazeera America since midday Tuesday, April 12, 2016. In fact, channel 107 is no longer on the Comcast network.

USA Today reports “Al-Jazeera America, which failed in its attempt to establish another TV news network, signs off after a three-hour live farewell Tuesday.”

Florida Family Association's efforts that influenced 260 out of 275 (95%)companies not to advertise on Al Jazeera America certainly played an important role in their decision to close the channel. Two hundred nine (209) companies stopped advertising after the Florida Family Association office communicated with the companies’ CEOs and Marketing VPs. Fifty one (51) companies stopped advertising after being profiled in Florida Family Association email campaigns. Florida Family Association started contacting companies that advertised on Current TV as soon as Al Jazeera took control of the channel in January 2013. More than sixty companies advertised during the first week that Florida Family Association started contacting advertisers. Al Jazeera America averaged less than fifteen advertisers per week during the last year of operation. A complete breakdown of the companies is posted below.

If Al Jazeera America had advertising revenues to cover operating expenses Qatar would not have closed the channel. FFA's efforts that influenced 260 out of 275 companies not to advertise on Al Jazeera America played a major role in their decision to close the economically unviable channel. Many business analysts believe that Qatar, the Islamist country that owns Al Jazeera, made the decision to close Al Jazeera America because of declining oil revenues. Oil rich Qatar used the profits from oil sales to underwrite Al Jazeera America. The price per barrel of oil had dropped over seventy percent in the last two years. The decline in oil prices certainly gutted Qatar's ability to underwrite Al Jazeera America which had no advertising revenues.

Why was it important to vigorously challenge American companies not to advertise with Al Jazeera America?

* No other company posed a larger threat for the most American companies to start doing business with Islamist companies.
* The news media does influence the political positions of the public. The Islamist political positions held by Al Jazeera officials and/or owner, especially those positions summarized below, posed a threat to changing American public policy that has protected life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
* American companies that acquired advertising with Al Jazeera America were giving United States consumer dollars to an Islamist Sharia minded regime.
* Eighty one percent of respondents to Al Jazeera survey said they support ISIS.

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FFA - Al Jazeera America is off the air. Florida Family Association's efforts influenced 260 out of 275 (95%) companies to stop advertising.

Al-Jazeera America, which failed in its attempt to establish another TV news network, signs off after a three-hour live farewell Tuesday
April 11, 2016, at 4:11 p.m.

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Al-Jazeera America, which failed in its attempt to establish another TV news network, signs off after a three-hour live farewell Tuesday