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Al Jazeera America Has Received More Than 8,000 Applications: For just 160 positions
BuzzFeed ^ | January 30, 2013 | Andrew Kaczynski

Posted on 01/31/2013 2:26:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Within 24 hours of posting openings for the majority of their new positions, Al Jazeera America received 5000 applications for open positions, a number that has grown to 8,063 over the past three days, a network source told BuzzFeed.

Al Jazeera caused a stir earlier this month when it was announced that the Qatar-based network had bought the struggling liberal channel Current from Al Gore for $500 million, and would use it to expand into American coverage...

(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: algore; aljazeera; msm; television
I think that says more about our economy than it does about the buyout. If the devil set up a sweat shop in the middle of the desert, people would line up to apply for work.
1 posted on 01/31/2013 2:27:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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I'm sure they got this guy's resume.
2 posted on 01/31/2013 2:34:18 PM PST by jimbo123
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A job is a job, I suppose.


3 posted on 01/31/2013 2:38:44 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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No, not all jobs are equal and can cite innumerable examples.


4 posted on 01/31/2013 2:49:09 PM PST by lbryce (BHO:"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds by way Oppenheiner at Trinity NM)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If a person appeared to be gay and applied to the job and wasn’t hired, could they sue Al Jazera?

Maybe an opportunity for an enterprising freeper to bleed some money out of al Jazera...


5 posted on 01/31/2013 2:50:02 PM PST by GraceG
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Who is Keith Oldberman? I never heard of him...


6 posted on 01/31/2013 2:50:51 PM PST by GraceG
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The ladies will love the office wear...


7 posted on 01/31/2013 2:54:12 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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To: GraceG

Just think. There are thousands of unemployed journalists out there who are willing to sell their soul to the devil to get a job.


8 posted on 01/31/2013 2:54:38 PM PST by Oldexpat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All Jazz must pay pretty good, because in the “new normal” of Baraq, it’s hardly worth working for less than 60 grand.

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/07/julias-mother-why-a-single-mom-is-better-off-on-welfare-than-taking-a-69000-a-year-job/


9 posted on 01/31/2013 2:54:38 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Oldexpat

I urge all of you to contact your cable or satellite and urge you to drop this channel from their listings. I did. The only recourse we have is to fight back and not have this propaganda enter our homes.


10 posted on 01/31/2013 3:06:05 PM PST by NotTallTex
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Al Gore belongs in prison for treason.
Damn him to hell!!!


11 posted on 01/31/2013 3:26:55 PM PST by taillightchaser (I'm going to become a criminal so I can keep my guns.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hope one of them is CIA UC.


12 posted on 01/31/2013 4:12:05 PM PST by Rappini (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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