Al Jazeera

apparently not defunct in US

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Al Jazeera is funded in whole or in part by the Qatari government. Wikipedia

9,532 views Jun 29, 2026 #aljazeeraenglish #politics #news

As right-wing populists take power across Latin America, they have waged a ‘cultural battle’ to reclaim the past. In Argentina, President Javier Milei – and a legion of supportive influencers and YouTubers – are revising how the country’s history of military dictatorship is remembered and debated.

Reporter: Tariq Nafi

Producer: Ella Willis

Featuring:

Agustín Laje – President, Fundación Faro; YouTuber

Sol Montero – Professor, National University of San Martín

4:044 minutes, 4 secondsA movement advocating for the so-called complete memory of the events [music] of the dictatorship. One that reframed the

4:114 minutes, 11 secondsrepression of that time as part of a dirty war between two sides.

4:264 minutes, 26 secondsWhat the complete memory narrative seeks to do is incorporate a historical truth that had been denied from the outset.

4:334 minutes, 33 secondsThose who attack the complete memory narrative are the ones denying a portion of history that for reasons of political, ideological, and economic

4:404 minutes, 40 secondsconvenience, they choose to leave out of the picture. It means recognizing that gerilla and terrorist groups existed and

4:484 minutes, 48 secondsthat they too systematically violated human rights against the civilian population.

4:584 minutes, 58 secondsIt's true that a few years ago it was inconceivable to talk of a dirty war or question the figure of 30,000

5:055 minutes, 5 secondsdisappeared. And those limits have been pushed. What's acceptable speech has shifted with the arrival of this new radical right-wing in power.

5:205 minutes, 20 secondsToday, you can find content on prime time news channels or online that trivializes or relativizes the seriousness of the dictatorship's crimes for a young audience.

jm 2023, cut forensics; school denounced; hu rts gp cit corrupt; univ left indoc; voice have been excluded

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https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/gaza-2653011635

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Far right pundits cheered the Israeli airstrike that leveled a building in Gaza Saturday housing several international news outlets, including The Associated Press, Al Jazeera and the BBC.

The Israel Defense Forces later said the militant group Hamas had "military intelligence assets" in the building — though as of Sunday afternoon no evidence supporting the claims had been made public.

The bombing, broadcast live television by several journalists who had just escaped the blast, quickly gained widespread media attention Saturday due to the nature of the attack, which drew condemnation from many press freedom advocates around the globe.

Yet, right-wing pundits on Twitter had a different view on it all — they celebrated and jeered at the destruction.

Senior columnist at the right-wing site Townhall, Kurt Schlichter, called those who carried out the bombing "heroes," while seemingly finding pleasure in the attack. "Let's stop pretending that the media is not a participant and that it is somehow entitled to not be treated like every other active enemy," he declared.

Let’s stop pretending that the media is not a participant and that it is somehow entitled to not be treated like every other active enemy.

— Kurt Schlichter (@Kurt Schlichter)1621090669.0

Popular conservative Twitter pundit, Stephen L. Miller, who is currently a contributor at the conservative opinion site The Spectator, reacted by mocking the bombing with a meme of a lady smiling....[twt]

Former Newsmax TV host John Cardillo wrote on Twitter: "Looks like the IDF took out Hamas's PR team," while fellow right-wing Twitter pal David Reaboi called the bombing "based," a term coined by the rapper Lil B to signal that one agrees or approves of a statement.

"Just warms your heart to see," a contributing editor for right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire, Harry Khachatrian, responded to the attack.

@davereaboi Probably watched this a dozen times already, what a great start to the weekend

— Harry Khachatrian

Many online also tried to draw spurious connections between the destruction and last summer's Black Lives Matter protests.

GOP operative Arthur Schwartz, who is known for losing his coolafter a waiter spilled steak sauce on him while dining with Trump, tweeted, "Black Lives Matter, Inc. thugs burned and looted American cities, we're now told that property damage is a big deal? What's different here?"

No journalists were reported injured as a result of the airstrike. According to several firsthand reports from inside the building, residents and workers were warned ahead of time that the bombing would occur, sparking a mad scramble to evacuate the premises.[10 min?!]

"I have been covering lots of events from this building. We have lots of good memories with our colleagues," Safwat al-Kahlout, a reporter for Al Jazeera, said. "Now everything, in two seconds, just vanished."

The AP reports at least 188 Palestinians were killed this week in the most recent round of fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. That number includes 55 children and 33 women, with more than a thousand wounded. Eight people in Israel have died from rocket attacks launched from Gaza.

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islamophobia INC

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Across the United States, there has been a growth in organizations that portray Islam as a threat. Over two years, the number of groups that make up what’s become known as the Islamophobia industry has more than tripled. This investigation reveals the tactics these groups use to instigate a fear of Islam, including how they manipulate social media to create a false narrative that Muslims are trying to take over the country. Anti-Muslim messages proliferate social media with bought-in followers, fake accounts and robotic amplifiers. The investigation also shows how these organizations try to suppress the rise of a Muslim political voice in America. It uncovers the “dark money” that has fuelled the rapid growth of Islamophobia Inc. - tens of millions of dollars which is funnelled through secretive, anonymous donor funds. We unveil the donors of the dark money and ask; what do they ultimately hope to achieve? Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribeFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglishFind us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeeraCheck our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/marc-morano-sticks-it-to-al-jazeera/

Of course none of this could happen without the media's acquiescence. We're not even talking about right-wing talkers like Rush Limbaugh, 2011 winner of Media Matters' "Climate Change Misinformer of the Year [55]" award who recently told his listeners that they cannot concurrently believe in God and climate change [56]. We're talking about the mainstream media that have given very little time to the issue of climate change and how KXL could impact it.

Where's the Media?

The mainstream media's failure to confront climate change is more a sin of omission then one of commission. The Daily Climate [57], an online publication that monitors news coverage of climate issues, has been tracking total coverage of climate change for the past several years. What they have found is shrinking coverage as the crisis has escalated.

Despite the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, a drought that wrought havoc [58] on more than half of the US, California's current epochal drought, and the fact that 2012 was the hottest year on record [59], total reporting on climate change dropped two percent [60] from 2011. And climate coverage in 2011 was 20 percent less [61] than in 2010, and just over half the amount of reportage in 2009, the year when the issue got the most attention in the mainstream media.

Last year, the New York Times, "the paper of record," and "All the news that's fit to print," shut down [62] its environmental reporting desk and its Green blog. Though the editors offered assurances that the paper would cover environmental issues with just as much vigor, reassigning the reporters and terminating two editorial positions makes that difficult to believe.

Evidence indicates skepticism about those promises is well founded. On August 5, the American Geophysical Union [63] and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [64] each released major climate report. Neither garnered a mention [65] in the Gray Lady.

The Times is not alone in cutting back on specialized environmental reporting. Inside Climate News, a Pulitzer Prize-winning online news outlet, reports that among the top five US newspapers by circulation, there are approximately a dozen reporters [66] on the environment beat.

(To its credit, the recently launched and unjustly attacked [67] cable networkAl Jazeera America dedicated a half-hour of its inaugural day [68] to climate change,which propelled it to the fore of media outlets paying attention to the issue, topping Fox News' and CNN's combined total [69] for the preceding four months.)

When activist organizations can't get their issues covered in the mainstream media, they sometimes turn to the old-fashioned alternative: buying publicity. But for Green organizations, it appears that their money is not green enough to buy a seat at the table for the debate on KXL.

Think Progress reports that the NBC television station in Washington DC rejected an advertisement [70] by a group opposing KXL, despite the organization's assurance that its ad complied with all station policies. A station spokesman said it violated the policy against personal attacks.

The group, NextGen Climate Action, [71] wanted the ad to run in conjunction with President Obama's August 2013 appearance on "The Tonight Show." It parodies [72] the specious and suspect claims made by TransCanada in its ads, such as the one that aired during the preceding Sunday's "Meet the Press" on the very same NBC station that rejected the parody.

All the News That's Fit to Print, on One Side?

The result in this case is a debate in which only one side gets to make its case.

"If you have a large enough bank account you can create a multifaceted campaign that involves buying politicians, influence peddling, and writing the story of energy policy from your perspective," says Public Citizen's Slocum. "That is invaluable if you get to tell the story on your terms about climate change, if you don't have to have a rebuttal, and you don't have to have a fact check."

TransCanada and the API have very large bank accounts. And they've been willing to open their checkbooks (to the tune of $153 million [73] leading up to the 2012 election, or nearly four times what clean-energy groups spent) to tell the story their way. According to their adversaries, that story has what Slocum politely calls "credibility problems." Others offer a more blunt assessment.

"TransCanada has lied repeatedly throughout this process, and unfortunately, some of their lies have been printed," LCV's Sittenfeld says.

(Nation of Change has compiled a lengthy, but not exhaustive, list of misleading and/or unethical conduct [74] on behalf of the KXL project.)

NEXT: Tar Sands, corporate profits, and stopping "game over" for the climate.

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Al Jazeera America (AJAM) was an American basic cable and satellite news television channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network, Doha. The channel was launched on August 20, 2013 to compete with CNN, HLN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and in certain markets, RT America. The channel was Al Jazeera's second entry into the U.S. television market, after the launch of beIN Sport in 2012. The channel, which had persistently low ratings, announced in January 2016 that it would close on April 12, 2016,^[1] citing the "economic landscape".^[2]

The channel was headquartered and run from studios on the first floor of the Manhattan Center in New York City.^[3][4][5] It also had a total of 12 bureaus located in places such as Washington, D.C., at the channel's D.C. studios at the Newseum and Al Jazeera's D.C. hub, Chicago, Detroit, Nashville, Los Angeles, Seattle, New Orleans, Dallas, Denver, Miami, and San Francisco (former headquarters of Current TV and current headquarters of online channel AJ+).^[6][7]

The channel was the sister channel of Al Jazeera's international English language news channel Al Jazeera English. Although operated and managed completely separately with America's management based in the United States, the two shared United States studios and bureaus such as the D.C. hub and Al Jazeera America ran some of Al Jazeera English's programming and many of its live newscasts alongside its own.

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History

Creation

The creation of Al Jazeera America was announced on January 2, 2013, along with the announcement that the network had purchased the user generated content channel turned progressive-oriented cable television channel Current TV, which had long been struggling in the ratings and after two format changes had announced in October 2012 that it was considering a sale of the channel.^[8] It was reported that Al Jazeera planned on shutting down Current TV, keeping its production staff and possibly some programs, and using the company's distribution network to broadcast Al Jazeera America.^[9] Current TV, by coincidence, was formerly Newsworld International, an international news channel similar to Al Jazeera America run by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

On July 22, 2013, Al Jazeera America named former ABC News Vice President Kate O'Brian as president of the network, and Ehab Al Shihabi as interim CEO in charge of business affairs. In addition, former CNN veteran David Doss was named Vice President of News Programming and former CBS News executive Marcy McGinnis was named Vice President of News Gathering. Former MSNBC executive Shannon High-Bassalik was named Senior Vice President of Documentaries and Programs.^[10]

Al Jazeera said it received more than 21,000 job applications for 400 positions at its U.S. network.Approximately 200 Current TV employees, including some 50 in editorial, were absorbed by the new operation.^[4] It planned to have a total of 800 employees at the channel's launch. Al Jazeera America also announced that the channel would employ well-known veteran journalists, anchors, and producers.^[11]

On July 3, 2013, Ali Velshi confirmed that Al Jazeera America's launch would take place on August 20, 2013.^[12] The launch took place at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time on that date, with an hour-long preview special entitled This is Al Jazeera. News coverage began immediately afterward at 4:00 p.m. Al Jazeera America's website launched on August 8, 2013.^[13]

Closure

On January 14, 2016, the Al Jazeera Media Network announced that it would shut down Al Jazeera America's cable TV and digital operations on April 30, 2016, citing plummeting oil prices and the highly competitive nature of the American media market.^[14] It was also reported that this closure would lead to the loss of about 700 jobs.^[15] During its two-year history, Al Jazeera America won several media awards including the Peabody, Emmy, and Shorty Awards and citations from groups such as the National Association of Black Journalists and Native American Journalism. However, the network experienced low viewership ratings, averaging between 20,000 and 40,000 viewers on a typical day.^[16][17] Following the network's shutdown, Al Jazeera Media Network is planning on expanding its digital presence in the United States though ventures such as United States-based AJ+.^[18][19]

On February 26, 2016, the Al Jazeera America website ceased operations.^[20]

On February 11, 2016, writing in the television trade magazine, Broadcasting and Cable, industry pundit Joe Mohen proposed a provocative thesis that the business failure of Al Jazeera America was only because it chose the wrong distribution channel, namely cable. Mohen argued that by the time of Al Jazeera America's launch, the demographics of cable news viewers in the United States market were people in their 60s, whereas the natural audience of Al Jazeera was people under 34 years old; had the parent company instead launched the linear news channel as a Netflix type app (much like how RT America has done), with full digital distribution, then it could have grown its audience using search, and sold its commercials programmatically.^[21]

On March 27, 2016, CNN correspondents Brian Stelter and Tom Kludt wrote an in-depth analysis of Al Jazeera America's closure.Among the many reasons for the closure cited in the article were low viewership and falling oil prices. But the article also pointed to more "deeper-rooted problems." These problems included poor decision making and management on behalf of Al Jazeera higher-ups – specifically CEO Ehab Al Shihabi. The article stated that they lacked a business plan, and made faulty branding choices such as refusing to change the name "Al Jazeera." Stelter and Kludt also suggested that political issues could have played into the channel's demise. During the Bush administration, the President and other officials openly criticized Al Jazeera for airing messages from Al-Qaeda figures.^[22] This could have been part of the reason why Al Jazeera America struggled to get major cable providers like Comcast and DirecTV to carry the channel.^[23]

On April 12, 2016, Al Jazeera America signed off for the final time with its last program ever to air on the network, a live three-hour retrospective titled, Your Stories. Antonio Mora & Richelle Carey, the first two anchors to appear on air when it launched August 20, 2013, were the last two anchors to appear as the network signed off for the final time at 8:59 p.m. ET. After sign off the channel space that Al Jazeera America had been on which had been in use since 1994 as Newsworld International folded.

During the time that Al Jazeera America was in existence Al Jazeera English and AJE programs that were shown on Al Jazeera America were Geoblocked in the United States due to agreements with the carriers of Al Jazeera America. Programs from Al Jazeera English not shown on Al Jazeera America (such as Empire and UpFront) were some of the few unblocked during the time and therefore able to be seen on Al Jazeera English's website. In September, 2016, Al Jazeera English's online live stream and the programs which were blocked in the United States during Al Jazeera America's existence were officially un-geoblocked in the United States making them viewable for the first time since 2013.

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On April 13, 2014 the channel began showing Borderland, a documentary series on illegal immigration which follows six Americans as they retrace the fatal journey of three undocumented migrants who died attempting to cross into the United States. Borderland was the firstdDocumentary series for the channel. A second one called The System focused on the U.S. prison system.

Investigative Reporting

The channel had a 16-person investigative unit and hired veteran National Headline Award-winning journalist Edward Pound (formerly of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report and the National Journal) to lead its investigation division. Josh Bernstein of Denver Fox affiliate KDVR was hired as the lead investigative reporter, along with Trevor Aaronson, an award-winning author and investigative journalist and the former co-founder and associate director of the nonprofit Florida Center for Investigative Reporting who served as the networks investigative digital reporter based in Washington, D.C.^[40][41] This was in addition to the Al Jazeera Investigative Reporting Unit controlled by Al Jazeera English.

Al Jazeera America was the first television national news outlet to report in-depth on the Flint water crisis on January 22, 2015.^[42][43][44]

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While covering the Ferguson protests in 2014, officers from the Ferguson Police Department shot rubber bullets and tear gas at an AJAM news crew including correspondent Ash-har Quraishi, who after yelling, "We're the press" caused them to abandon their recording equipment and run to safety.^[58] The incident was caught on camera by KSDK-TV, a local NBC affiliate who was filming from across the street. An officer was captured on video turning the reporters' video camera toward the ground and dismantling their equipment.^[59] Other incidents, including the arrests of two print journalists for The Washington Post and The Huffington Post, also occurred during the same time period.^[citation ^needed]

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