I have been really surprised over the years that Al Jazeera has gone from the place that the news always cites as the source that terrorists release their videos to, to becoming a source of world news on par with the BBC in my opinion.

Dropping it because ownership changed hands reeks of stereotyping about AJ’s origins and geographical/cultural location. Did Time Warner drop Discovery Kids when Hasbro bought into the station and it became The Hub because Discovery and Hasbro didn’t ask TW’s permission? Have they ever required mergers/acquisitions to have their permission in order to be carried by them? They didn’t even give them a chance to do better than CurrentTV did.