by Bush/Cheney in this country, their headquarters were bombed, their reporters either killed or detained and tortured, but their Global Audience only grew as a result.
Their reporters were among the best in the world. They made ours look like clueless, teenage cheerleaders.
Thankfully we had access to them on the Internet so the attempt to censor them failed completely.
Their discussion shows, were unbelievably great, their opinion segments, beyond good.
Despite being owned by the government of Qatar, their reporting was unbiased for the most part and actual reporting of NEWS.
They wanted a US TV audience, but were apparently constantly denied it until Bush/Cheney were gone.
Sadly during the Libya debacle, they lost a lot of their reputation as an unbiased News Source, the reason being Qatar was involved in that conflict, sending in 'proxy boots on the ground' which is something AJ avoided coverage of even as other news agencies caught them red handed.
A top exec at AJ stepped down over the controversy more or less admitting the bias. That probably lost them some of their audience.
However, even with that, their International News programs are exceptional compared to ours, which is a very low standard I admit.
And since the gained access to the US, they are not nearly as good as they were, trying to avoid reporting on topics they normally would have.
But even with that they are far better than the MSM.
American audiences need to expand their horizons and Al Jazeera should not change their name to cater to the dumbing down of America.
They need to learn that people of other nations are not what Fox portrays them to be, and if AJ were to try to hide who they are, it would not help at all and probably would not expand their audience anyhow.
Word of mouth helps and it will probably take time for Americans to get over the fear of the rest of the world.
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