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No worries. I just remember here in North America, AlJazeera Arabic was always mentioned in connection with those videos and i distinctly remember news panels discussions about the merits of them broadcasting them continuously. They were de-rided for being mouthpiece. So for the most part their name is basically mud here. Could it be wearing away, possibly, 20 years on. But its a news operation from the middle that is viewed with suspicion in the wider populace. You saw how quickly CNNs cachet was eroded by Trumpers. So it stands to reason AJ and AJE and its American outlet didnt stand a chance.


A couple of articles about the shutdown and they even were told to change the channel name and they refused, so they kinda shot themselves in foot.
money.cnn.com ?

There were still other obstacles. It is now conventional wisdom among employees, according to those interviewed for this story, that Al Jazeera America should have changed its name.

"Even before the launch, everyone in the newsroom said, change the name," one AJAM anchor said. "But they" — in Doha — "were too proud of it. They didn't listen to people who knew the U.S. market."

Al Shihabi, the man appointed to run AJAM, told skeptics that his research supported the name and showed it was not a hindrance. But the network was clearly sensitive about the concerns. A pamphlet that circulated among staffers one month before launch focused on AJAM's "brand messaging." When it came to the new channel's voice, employees were urged to "make it American."

www.washingtonpost.com 

fortune.com 

The failure of AJAM has little to do with the actual quality of the company’s journalistic work, and everything to do with changing industry economics, restrictive distribution agreements, and internal turmoil. And at a time when ISIL and anti-Islamic sentiment is such an issue, the name of the channel probably didn’t help.
“From the start, employees complained vociferously that network executives were paralyzed by fear, believing they had to avoid all hints of bias and opinion in order to steer clear of what these executives regarded as the lethal stench of the Al Jazeera brand for American audiences. This turned much of the network into a diluted, extra-fearful version of CNN.”

slate.com 

Some of the trouble undoubtedly boiled down to its name. Many Americans were never going to watch a channel created by Al Jazeera, the media network owned by the Qatari government with a reputation (fair or not) for being a smidgen hostile to the U.S.