Accuracy in Media

Al Jazeera America, the ratings-challenged cable news network that shut down two weeks ago, and which was owned by the Qatari government, was hit with a lawsuit by one of its former employees who alleges among other things that the network lost $585 million in 2013 and 2014. According to The New York Times, Anand Gupta, […]

Al Jazeera, which is in the process of shutting down its English language channel, announced Sunday that it will cut 500 jobs starting today to combat the effects that low oil prices are having on its operations. The network, which is owned by the oil and gas revenue-dependent Qatari government, is being forced to trim […]

Editor’s Note & Update: Glenn Beck, founder of The Blaze, said the following this week to clarify potential interest in buying Al Jazeera America: “Not one dime will ever go to pay a state that harbors and infects the rest of the world with twisted ideology that leads to terror — not a dime.” It […]

Al Jazeera America, which launched with much fanfare in 2013 after paying Al Gore and his partner an estimated $500 million for their failing Current TV network, announced on Wednesday that it will be shutting down at the end of April. In addition to the money that the Qatari government paid Gore, Al Jazeera invested at least […]

Al Jazeera America, which launched with much fanfare nearly two years ago, is retrenching after failing to attract an audience in the U.S., according to the New York Post. Insiders told the Post that the network is laying off staff and watering down its U.S. editorial voice while filling more airtime with programming from its […]

MSNBC recorded its worst total-day ratings in nearly 10 years on Tuesday, led by the flailing Ronan Farrow Daily, which pulled a paltry 11,000 viewers in the A25-54 demo. With those numbers, MSNBC has sunk below even Al Jazeera America’s News Live, which doubled Farrow’s demo with 22,000 viewers—a nearly equally paltry number. By comparison, Fox News Channel’s […]

Al Jazeera America, which had hopes of challenging the other cable news networks with more in-depth programming, has taken a giant step backward with the announcement that it has canceled its morning programs and is dropping its 4 p.m. news hour. It will also be moving its 6 p.m. coverage to 7 p.m., according to The […]

Al Jazeera America, which was sued last month by former Current TV owners Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, has counter-sued the pair in an ongoing dispute over escrow funds. Gore and Hyatt sued Al Jazeera America alleging that the network was improperly withholding tens of millions of dollars placed in escrow when they sold Current […]

Al Jazeera America (AJA) dismissed the claims of Current TV founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, who sued the network last week for refusing to turn over any of the estimated $65 million that was being held in an escrow account that was created when Al Jazeera agreed to buy Current TV last year. In […]

Former Vice President Al Gore is suing Al Jazeera, charging that the network has withheld tens of millions of dollars that are owed to Gore and his partners from the sale of Current TV last year. Al Jazeera agreed to pay Gore and his shareholders, which includes Comcast, $500 million for the struggling network. They […]