Al Jazeera proper however spins this as increasing their direct (online) presence in the U.S: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aljazeera.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;al-jazeera-160113151725873.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aljazeera.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;al-jazeera-16011315172...</a><p>It always did seem weird to me how much Al Jazeera America focused on very local issues, when the entire point of going outside of U.S. media, to me, was to get a more balanced view on global issues (by aggregation, not saying AJ doesn&#x27;t have its own biases). So maybe, for those of us who get our news online, this might actually be a good news. On the other hand, it makes cable TV news in the U.S. even more homogeneous than it already is...