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Since then, Al-Jazeera has developed markets throughout the Arab world, including the nomadic tribes who can easily carry the kind of equipment required to receive Al-Jazeera's satellite signal.
Since then, Al-Jazeera has developed markets throughout the Arab world, including the nomadic tribes who can easily carry the kind of equipment required to receive Al-Jazeera's satellite signal.
In 2013 Al-Jazeera bought [[Al Gore]]'s left-wing current affairs channel [[Current TV]] and renamed it Al-Jazeera America.<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/01/02/al-jazeera-current-tv-al-gore/1805685/ Al-Jazeera buys Al Gore's Current TV], The Associated Press, at USA Today, Jan 2, 2013.</ref> From August 20, 2013 until it shut down on April 12, 2016, Al-Jazeera America was available in American households.<ref>http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mary-grabar/get-ready-for-al-jazeera-america/</ref> It ceased operations in 2016 due to low viewership.
In 2013 Al-Jazeera bought [[Al Gore]]'s left-wing current affairs channel [[Current TV]] and renamed it Al-Jazeera America.<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/01/02/al-jazeera-current-tv-al-gore/1805685/ Al-Jazeera buys Al Gore's Current TV], The Associated Press, at USA Today, Jan 2, 2013.</ref> From August 20, 2013 until it shut down on April 12, 2016, Al-Jazeera America was available in American households.<ref>Mary Graber, "Get Ready for Al Jazeera Anerica," ''FPM'', Aug 19, 2013. [https://archive.ph/zGyuX] ([http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mary-grabar/get-ready-for-al-jazeera-america/]).<br>
[https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/40436/get-ready-for-al-jazeera-america. ME Forum]<blockquote>Excerpt:<br>
If you thought Walter Cronkite was bad with his broadcasts that propagandized against American efforts during the Vietnam War, get ready for Al Jazeera America. You may be getting it on your cable provider along with 40 million other American households beginning on August 20, 2013.
Al Jazeera, the state propaganda arm of the dictatorial Qatar government is known for stirring up Al Qaeda with images of Osama bin Laden around the time of 9/11. More recently, it cheered the overthrow of the Egyptian government and ignored the sexual assault of CBS news correspondent Lara Logan as she covered protests there. The headquarters are to be in our nation's capitol, at the non-profit Newseum center, even though its operations violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act because they are not labeled as foreign propaganda (a law enacted to protect us from Nazi propaganda).
Ironically, the largest and oldest professional journalism educators' association, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), enjoyed the participation of Al Jazeera in several panels and events at their annual meeting earlier this month.
</blockquote></ref> It ceased operations in 2016 due to low viewership.
==Bin Laden==
==Bin Laden==
Regarding airing [[Bin Laden]]'s tapes 'in full' - 2001:<ref>[https://www.memri.org/tv/saudi-journalist-abdulrahman-rashed-fmr-al-arabiya-news-jazeera-standards-indoctrination-bin-laden Fmr. Al-Arabiya News Channel General Manager Abdulrahman Al-Rashed: Al-Jazeera Aired The Bin Laden Tapes In Full Because Its Main Focus Was Indoctrination; I Would Have Aired Only The Newsworthy Titles; At Al-Arabiya We Stood Up To Bin Laden's Ideology], ''Memri'' June 09, 2021.</ref> Fmr. Al-Arabiya News Channel General Manager Abdulrahman Al-Rashed: Al-Jazeera Aired The Bin Laden Tapes In Full Because Its Main Focus Was Indoctrination; I Would Have Aired Only The Newsworthy Titles.
Regarding airing [[Bin Laden]]'s tapes 'in full' - 2001:<ref>[https://www.memri.org/tv/saudi-journalist-abdulrahman-rashed-fmr-al-arabiya-news-jazeera-standards-indoctrination-bin-laden Fmr. Al-Arabiya News Channel General Manager Abdulrahman Al-Rashed: Al-Jazeera Aired The Bin Laden Tapes In Full Because Its Main Focus Was Indoctrination; I Would Have Aired Only The Newsworthy Titles; At Al-Arabiya We Stood Up To Bin Laden's Ideology], ''Memri'' June 09, 2021.</ref> Fmr. Al-Arabiya News Channel General Manager Abdulrahman Al-Rashed: Al-Jazeera Aired The Bin Laden Tapes In Full Because Its Main Focus Was Indoctrination; I Would Have Aired Only The Newsworthy Titles.