“Current” Bias: Getting Ready for GoreTV
Scheduled to have its first “airing” on August 1.
According to Tech-Confidential: “This past weekend former Vice President and presidential hopeful Al Gore was screening prospective videos for a cable and satellite channel –- called Current — that he, along with several investors, is scheduled to introduce Aug. 1, The New York Times reported Saturday.”
“Gore is the channel’s co-founder and chairman, and will have a say in what is aired on the channel, which is aimed at people between the ages of 18 and 34 and will rely on viewer submissions for much of its content.”
Have a say? There’s no doubt “program director” Al Gore will select only the best shows for this special audience and key voting bloc. We’re confident that he’ll put the “Dem” in demographic.
“Other investors in the cable channel include Joel Hyatt, the founder of Hyatt Legal Services, who served as national finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee during Gore’s failed presidential run, Blum Capital Partners (led by Richard Blum, husband of California Senator Dianne Feinstein) and Yucaipa Cos. of Los Angeles (run by Ron Burkle, a Democratic fundraiser). Bradley Whitford, who plays a White House adviser on ‘The West Wing,’ is an individual investor.”
That’s quite a prestigious line-up. Without a hint of bias or political leaning.
This won’t be a vehicle to promote the Democratic “message” (if that’s what complaining about Republicans can be called). No sir. It’s just about appealing to the youth (or “empowering this generation,” to quote Gore), whether they “rock the vote” or not. After all, “[t]he total price tag was an estimated $70 million for the cable platform, according to a recent article in The Deal.” It’s not like these wealthy liberal investors expect a return. Let’s just call it another public broadcasting service (PBS).
“Gore has been busy since he lost the bid for the presidency in 2004. He also launched Generation Investment Management, a London-based investment firm, and he’s a member of the board of Apple Computer Inc. and an unpaid consultant to senior executives of Google Inc.”
Busy as a bee from Tennessee. Anybody wonder what Gore consults Google on?
Stay tuned. Literally.
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July 27th, 2005 at 5:14 am
Could we at least see the channel before criticizing it? Perhaps you are certain of the outcome already, but the rest of us have to wait for the actual facts before we can discuss them.
July 27th, 2005 at 6:13 am
Gosh and just the other day Ann Coulter was going on about how conservatives now control the media (fox, rush, etc.)so much for that liberal bias argument. Plus notice how all the conservatives end up being proven wrong, wouldn’t it be nice to start out right?
July 27th, 2005 at 8:09 am
I take it you watch a lot of FOX News, and think that it’s non-biased…
You’re going down in flames, Repubs. I think you can smell your asses burning, hence the desparate attacks on a channel that hasn’t aired yet, started by a former Vice President whose administration makes the current one look like Hee-Haw.
Keep chasing that carrot, dolts.
July 27th, 2005 at 11:50 am
There was a great article in SF Weekly about how CalPERS money is being used, in part, to fund Gore’s venture. Some of it was supposed to be used to fund economic development in ‘underserved’ parts of the state — not cable channels in San Francisco. We have a link to that article and some comments here.
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