{"id":129482,"date":"2016-01-14T09:08:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T16:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/14\/al-jazeera-america-closes-operations.html"},"modified":"2016-02-11T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T05:37:00","slug":"al-jazeera-america-closes-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/14\/al-jazeera-america-closes-operations.html","title":{"rendered":"Al Jazeera America closes operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a shame on a couple of levels. I never watched their TV operations, but their online reporting on a variety of issues was always interesting, definitely bringing a different perspective from mainstream American journalism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/01\/13\/al-jazeera-america-terminates-all-tv-and-digital-operations\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/JqabiCJ-W5ZjSt5rAX0HoeMY_D-7FQQ1rim-rPUh-jYb-zpSBgGtkEOisGpPfxOvSVEyvEVriCiJK1PVcIhIDpv7KONonDLpNQr3Pp5mGJNP0LJv9g3ZyCgR5inu1tl-rcwyLIevmrr24JMCAbDDF4mH-dGN5N8k=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/01\/13\/al-jazeera-america-terminates-all-tv-and-digital-operations\/'>Al Jazeera America Terminates All TV and Digital Operations<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nHundreds lose their jobs in a stunning and rapid collapse of what, from the start, has been a towering failure.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/RTYihp7thWn'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a shame on a couple of levels. I never watched their TV operations, but their online reporting on a variety of issues was always interesting, definitely bringing a different perspective from mainstream American journalism. Al Jazeera America Terminates All TV and Digital Operations Hundreds lose their jobs in a stunning and rapid collapse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/14\/al-jazeera-america-closes-operations.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Al Jazeera America closes operations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41613,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/06\/and-decrease-the-surplus-population.html","url_meta":{"origin":129482,"position":0},"title":"And decrease the surplus population","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-Apr-14 12:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sure the US evangelical leaders in\u00a0who prodded and lobbied the Ugandan government so hard to \"take a stand\" against homosexuality are pleased as punch that an HIV treatment center funded by the US has been shut down there. \u00a0After all, Jesus was all over abandoning the sick as part\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":50980,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/12\/in-which-i-perhaps-betray-a-bit-of-nationalism.html","url_meta":{"origin":129482,"position":1},"title":"In which I perhaps betray a bit of nationalism","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-May-15 4:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"I certainly agree that US police and justice system actions against the poorest and most disadvantaged populations within the country are in serious need of review and reform.However, forgive me if I find the \"vociferous\" criticism from China, Russia, Turkey, and Pakistan to be ... schadenfreudenisch. 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