Al Gore made millions off selling his Current TV to America's avoid enemies and they [the enemy] are looking for 800 American journalists. Anyone willing to bet that they will be able to find plenty of help from today's compromised American media ???


Al Jazeera America, a new U.S.-based extension of the media organization funded by the Qatar government, sees a vacuum in U.S. investigative journalism and it plans to fill the hole by hiring 800 U.S. journalists, including six reporters and producers in Chicago.

Officials from the nascent news channel, which plans to begin broadcasting in July or August, have been meeting with news organizations and advertisers in Chicago this week to promote its launch.

The 24-hour network aims to capture perspectives from average Americans on topics such as health care, employment and corruption, with less coverage of politicians and celebrities, said Ehab Al Shihabi, executive director of international operations for the new channel. The channel will air long-form reporting in a documentary style, he said.

“It's really about the real people in the mainstream with heavy investigative journalism,” Mr. Al Shihabi said. Al Jazeera America will be “covering domestic news from a global perspective and covering global news in a local way,” he said.


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