[February 3, 2016] It comes as no surprise to me that Al Jazeera America television is shuttering its doors. According to reports, the Qatar-funded cable news network’s last broadcast will be April 30 this year. After watching a CNN advertisement on an airport monitor two years ago, I wrote that no one would watch it because of its suspect history as a propaganda arm of Islamic extremism and terrorism (link here).
I also referenced an article which opposed my view on how Iraq’s leadership and the Islamic State’s leadership are different and that much of it stems from the 1,400 year Sunni-Shia conflict (see link here and here). The Al Jazeera network programming was just lacking any level of credibility regardless of its lavish budget and expensive reporters giving us the news.
Media in the United States already has seen its credibility decline; people trust it less than ever before. Various media outlets are struggling and its leadership is out of step with the American public. People are beginning to see it for what it is; a biased, parochial bureaucracy interested in spreading a socialist ideology. They aren’t buying it.
Several of those running for the U.S. presidency have pointed out the extreme bias of the media. For whatever reason, its leadership has failed to reign in the leftist journey it has taken over since Walter Cronkite gave us the news as the “most trusted man in American.”
The closing of Al Jazeera American television does not mean that their effort stops. Its website continues to post “news” and its leadership continues to be slow to realize no one reads it. Like Pravda (Russian meaning truth) in the old Soviet Union days, people learned to not trust it and to read between the lines.
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