OT- Al Jazeera America Shuts down
Al Jazeera America who reported the Peyton Manning HGH allegations is shutting down.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/13/media/al-jazeera-america/index.html
January 13th, 2016 at 8:52 PM ^
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January 13th, 2016 at 2:59 PM ^
They named it that because that's the name (it's from Qatar originally)
January 13th, 2016 at 3:02 PM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 3:40 PM ^
I agree that maybe they should have marketed themselves more, but I think people mostly understand what it is at this point. It would have shut down years ago otherwise. And maybe keeping the sports channel as Al Jazeera would have been better actually.
January 13th, 2016 at 3:44 PM ^
Al Jazeera America had a pretty poor distribution system as well.
I don't think many cable/satelite providers carried the channel. That's on the execs for poor business strategy.
January 13th, 2016 at 3:55 PM ^
calling the cable companies and bitching about having to pay for the terrorist news network.
January 13th, 2016 at 3:46 PM ^
Eh, wouldn't have changed the fact their reporting mirrored MSNBC's. If you're going to copycat, at least copycat the channel with the good ratings.
In the end Al Gore sold to them because Current was going down the tubes, all the oil money in the world can't change the underlying fundamentals which are that messing with Peyton Manning apparently gets you killed(did they not watch his SNL United Way ad?)
January 13th, 2016 at 2:47 PM ^
... oh, you said Al Jazeera.
January 13th, 2016 at 2:46 PM ^
Even though I never used them as my main news source, I had heard their name come up in various reports and had assumed they were doing well. I sincerely hope the name wasn't the reason it got so little traffic.
January 13th, 2016 at 2:52 PM ^
I think it has less to do with the name, and more to do with the fact that TV news viewers seem to largely prefer sensationalized rhetoric to anything resembling actual news.
January 13th, 2016 at 3:29 PM ^
Qatar has to tighten up their spending with oil prices plumetting. Al Jazeera was just a luxury they could spend their wealth on. I don't think they were in the media business to turn a profit or attract viewers. They just wanted their own news network.
January 13th, 2016 at 2:47 PM ^
and prayers to everybody at Al Jazeera America.
January 13th, 2016 at 2:49 PM ^
to make me laugh out loud. All the upvotes to you.
January 13th, 2016 at 2:55 PM ^
It's terrible when a boutique cable news network dies.
It's even worse when one dies so damned young!
January 13th, 2016 at 2:48 PM ^
for those so inclined...
January 13th, 2016 at 2:50 PM ^
but strictly and solely from a marketing/branding standpoint, their name could not have been more poorly suited to their goals in the American news media market.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:07 PM ^
You are correct, but in spite of that, they really did a good job of covering the news as opposed to partisan ranting.
January 13th, 2016 at 2:50 PM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 3:22 PM ^
In fairness, Stern's interview with Khloe Kardashian this morning was riveting.
January 13th, 2016 at 3:36 PM ^
Did he ask her about her professional opinion on vaccinations too?
January 14th, 2016 at 10:08 AM ^
Fuck them.
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January 13th, 2016 at 2:49 PM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 2:51 PM ^
Good luck getting your Mexican immigrants across the border with their fake global warming and hatred of freedom now!
January 13th, 2016 at 2:57 PM ^
IBD, but that was funny. Also, assauit weapons, video game violence, drones, and government officials using private email accounts - take that!!
January 13th, 2016 at 3:06 PM ^
You want to get political, huh? Iowa, Friday night at Necto, Spiderman pictures!
January 13th, 2016 at 3:11 PM ^
caucus, state of the union, globalization - what you gonna do about that!?!
January 13th, 2016 at 2:54 PM ^
But I will say that they covered a lot of international stories that are completely ignored by the other US based media outlets.
American's don't want news. They want to be entertained.
/that rumbling sound is Walter Cronkite and Edward R Murrow spinning in their graves.
January 13th, 2016 at 3:12 PM ^
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January 13th, 2016 at 3:15 PM ^
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January 13th, 2016 at 4:36 PM ^
Wow. You're still pretty sharp for your age if you remember that.
January 13th, 2016 at 2:56 PM ^
I'm not surprised. Especially since Current TV before them wasn't doing much better in the ratings.
Are they shutting down or are they looking to sell? If I win the powerball tonight I might want to buy a cable network.
January 13th, 2016 at 2:57 PM ^
to listen to anti-American propaganda? I guess I will have to un-delete MSNBC from my cable.
January 13th, 2016 at 2:59 PM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 3:03 PM ^
deleted one particular bundled channel from your cable? Take me through this process, step by step.
January 13th, 2016 at 3:16 PM ^
January 14th, 2016 at 9:34 AM ^
and get rid of things like public access, any home shopping networks, jesus related channels, and any other stuff that has no relevance to what you want to view. Pretty standard.
January 13th, 2016 at 3:10 PM ^
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January 13th, 2016 at 3:16 PM ^
It's really awesome.
Seriously, your comment is absurd in the day and age of the internet. You can find any and all points of view in a matter of seconds.
January 13th, 2016 at 3:33 PM ^
I don't think his comment is absurd at all. Finding a FACTUAL news source these days is not as easy as it seems. Almost all network news sources are playing to an audience and shape their reporting accordingly as do almost all bloggers. Having opposing points of view allows you to see the arguments both sides are setting forth, but first, you need facts and getting them isn't always easy.
January 13th, 2016 at 3:39 PM ^
Facts can be found in abundance.It's the contextualization of said facts that is the issue.
January 13th, 2016 at 3:49 PM ^
Even factual reporting is not as straightforward as some people like to think. Without going political, look at unemployment. There are lots of different benchmarks that are reported upon and available from BLS, but there is constant division between political groups as to what the benchmarks actually mean to say nothing as to changes in the manner data is collected. Change the channel and the report that sounded great on channel A is getting lambasted on channel B.
January 13th, 2016 at 11:42 PM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 3:44 PM ^
Everyone here is familiar with biased reporting in the sport world, and that is Deflategate. I read every report, hearing transcript and pleading filed in the case and you eventually reach, relatively early, the opinion that Brady was being taken down, particularly by the totally biased talking heads on ESPN. I mean, crap, you didn't have to know much more than the Ideal Gas Law to think that a 20 degree temperature drop equates to a loss of a couple of PSI (thank you Michigan Engineering) but most of the jerks, like Mark Brunell, didn't seem to take the same course work.
January 13th, 2016 at 4:32 PM ^
Inspired by the "Deflatriots" three of my son's 3rd grade classmates did Science Fair projects to Test the hypothesis of whether having a deflated ball is advantageous.
All three experiments concluded that you can throw a partially deflated ball further than a fully inflated one.
Still not sure how that's a material advantage and the name "Deflategate" is gay to begin with, but the whole scandal was as much about being uncooperative with the almighty Roger than anything else.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:28 PM ^
lol, so which bandwagon Pats fans are butthurt over 3rd graders using the term "Deflatriots"?
January 13th, 2016 at 6:24 PM ^
If you mean that Brady should have given his phone to Wells, I'd suggest that he had absolutely no requirement to do so as well as no punishment. Wells didn't even push the point.
That the balls had lower air pressure is not the issue be rather the cause of the lower pressure.
January 13th, 2016 at 11:10 PM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 3:39 PM ^
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January 13th, 2016 at 3:40 PM ^
Nice to see you.