Al-Jazeera America, the soon-to-be-dead U.S. outpost of the Qatari government’s global television network, published an opinion essay on Thursday morning that satirized—subtly, but not that subtly—a number of new (or newly relaunched) media companies, including Mic, The New Republic, and Al-Jazeera America itself. Hours later, however, the network’s website replaced the entire essay with the following editor’s note:

Numerous outlets—including The Intercept, Politico, and The New York Times—are reporting that Al Jazeera executives have decided to shutter its U.S. cable news operation, Al Jazeera America, on April 30. According to a memo obtained by the Times’ John Koblin, the Qatari media conglomerate determined that the channel’s finances were “unsustainable”:

When readers in the U.S. click on this hyperlink, they’ll be taken to an Al Jazeera America op-ed criticizing Saudi Arabia for an uptick in executions of prisoners for apparently political reasons. When international readers click it, they’ll get a 404 error. According to Al Jazeera itself, this discrepancy is by design.

According to a new report in the New York Times, an attorney who worked in high-profile positions at Al Jazeera America, Sony and Def Jam records wasn’t really an attorney at all.

Al-Jazeera America staffers have formally voted to unionize, after the company refused to voluntarily recognize their union request. Now the company is challenging the right of some employees to be in the union. Liberal media at work!

Al-Jazeera America is holding a union election today, giving it the dubious distinction of being the first company in the new wave of media organizing not to voluntarily recognize its employees’ request for a union. Womp womp.

Al Jazeera America is laying off "a few dozen staff employees, as well as freelance employees," probably due to the fact that Americans do not watch Al Jazeera America, because they vaguely suspect it of terrorism.