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- Saintlink, on 10/12/2007, -11/+45While I don't agree with some or even most of Gore's stances I'll give him kudos if he launches a successful network that isn't a bully pulpit for left-wing ideas, but a good platform for honest debate. Hopefully it won't turn into Fox News Lite.
- ViperDaimao, on 10/12/2007, -8/+42"Ever-tighter political ... control of the media is a major threat to democracy."
So the solution is a tv channel started by a politician? - christianw, on 10/12/2007, -5/+36is creating? huh?
dude this network was launched over a year ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_TV
current is cool. nice to see a system like digg for tv ive been really enjoying watching it. anyone can make a pod (their term for video short), upload it to the current.tv website. they post it to the website where its then voted on by people just like you and me. if it gets enough votes, current pays the user for it and puts it on tv.
current rocks. anyone can make tv shows now =D - nebrfan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25And it has given us works of art such as: "Boy almost breaks leg by jumping on trampoline" and "mentos+diet coke=tehshiz"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Actually try watching C-span. It's great-no annoying commentators
- theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -8/+25"creating Current TV"
It's been on the air for over a YEAR. And while CNN MSNBC et. al is left of center, if you want some SERIOUSLY HARD left news, tune into "Democracy Now!".
The reason that there are no left leaning commentators on the radio and the reason that Fox News is handily beating the other cable news stations is people are tired of hearing how "Evil" America is. - sentanta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Umm... You Tube reaches a wider audience than NBC, and that content is completely user defined.
- christianw, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17we all got owned. most of us didnt even read the article. im as guilty as the rest of you but i think this is a lesson we shoulld all be reading first and commenting second when it comes to articles that inspire politcal passions...
the 2nd paragraph of the article linked....
"Gore said the goal behind his year-old "interactive" television channel Current TV was to encourage the kind of democratic dialogue that thrives online but is increasingly rare on TV." - JayWright, on 10/12/2007, -14/+24@joerastaman
The only reason that liberal sided articles may seem to do better on sites like Digg is because liberal-minded individuals actually tend to READ. We depend on reading to get real news, while you and your conservative hillbilly friends sit around and watch Bill O'Reilly.
More liberal people are literate, so it's no surprise that liberal stories tend to be more successful on this type of site. - Bakkhai42, on 10/12/2007, -9/+17No, he's been this way for years... it's just the media that's told you he's stiff... Looks like Al Gore is right again.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13Yeah, I would kill for a non-bias news network. But somehow one started by a politcian doesnt seem like it'll be too non-bias.
or maybe he want's to start another liberal news network because the ratio of iberal networks to conservative networks is about 6:1, and that's too low - ViperDaimao, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8this is true. If you actually want to watch a speech or debate in congress or SotU, turn to CSPAN so you don't have to put up with annoying commentators tryin to fill every moment of silence, and then talking over the speakers.
- SwordofKahless, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9The problem is too many in America have been conditioned to letting a commentator decide for them rather than research the facts after listening to their representives on CSPAN.
- JayWright, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Air America hasn't done so well? What the hell are you talking about? The station is still in its infancy for god sake! Do you think Rush Limbaugh had millions of listeners in his first year?!?!
The fact is that Air America's listener-ship is continually growing, while the listener-ship of many right-wing radio hosts (Bill O'Reilly radio for instance) is SHRINKING!
Give the station a chance, for crying out loud, and quit believing everything Bill O'Reilly tells you! He is jealous of Air America's success and simply makes ***** up about them all the ***** time. - ginty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8According to current's site, Al Gore is the chairman, but it says nothing about him owning or starting. In fact, it says that its owned by a group of private investors and individuals.
http://www.current.tv/faq#whoowns - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Al Gore wants people to care about him.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11I think what's good about Gore is that he's a tech-saavy politician. He actually understands the internet and multimedia. I don't agree with his politics much either, but at least he seems to "get it."
They made fun of him for claiming to have invented the internet, but it's likely that was taken out of context (see other recent Republican smear campaigns). He was one of the few politicians to promote the internet before it became popular. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9a good majority of people in here didnt even read the article.
and akhomeryn, good job knocking down straw tv networks.. foxs ratings versus a mythical cable network.
as for currenttv, been seeing it for about a year now
http://www.current.tv/
as for democracy making it into a liberal fest.. well it is true there are more liberals than conservatives and yet a lot dont vote. But can you expaing the many libertarian articles, or the michel malkin spin?.. Even the libertarians have said it is much harder to get into the main stream news than a democratic place like digg.
Seems to me like all kinds of fringe views will be welcome to disemminate their info on tv.
I am telling the NEOs now.. it is a public channel, you dont want it to seem liberal, you had better get started making shows. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"is creating? huh?
It isn't exactly widespread yet. Or in its final state.
I hope it gains popularity. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8"In the natural world, the one who takes control, earns control. It isn't given to those who don't know how to wield it. The liberal movement is about stealing control away for those who didn't earn it. That is the path to the DARK SIDE."
Not a fan of Democracy, eh? What you are saying in so many words is that "might makes right." We've see what that results in countless times before. The behavior of cannibal apes is not something most of us aspire to.
Besides, how much more liberal can you get than George Lucas!? - repins, on 10/12/2007, -10/+15Yea we could all watch his news conferences on "Picture Picture" and take the "Trolley" to his "Land of Make Believe"
- Boohickey11, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6How many times do I have to say this. We live in a Republic people not a Democracy.
- blapierre, on 10/12/2007, -10/+14LOL, they had Democracy Now! on the cable in our on-campus apartments. What a load of crap that channel was.
- repins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Thank you Mr Hugo Chávez, always nice to hear from you....
- BenDuffy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11"Al Gore is creating Current TV"
Current has been airing on cable channels for almost 2 years now... I hate when some reporter "discovers" something and decides that it just started or will start in the future.
Current rocks in my opinion, I don't care if Gore did help start the channel. The internet rocks too, even if Gore takes credit for that...
Check out http://www.current.tv and vote for what shows up on air! - napkinback, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4But, see, he's super serial so it's not the same thing. Super. Serial.
- mtthwmiddleton, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@joerastaman
Isn't it funny that a forum for people to share ideas and stories based on democracy and the idea of community lacks Conservative minds? I don't consider myself left or right, I seem to sit close to the middle, and if anything slightly to the right, and have noticed that digg is a little left of the middle, but that's not a problem inherent in digg, it's a problem with Republicans. I'm not sure what it's going to take for republicans to stop feeling so elitist and become more relevant, but complaining about how a community site has to be left isn't the way - jonesin, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11@joerastaman:
Oh boo hoo, nobody likes my ideas of extreme violence and hatred, I'm gonna bitch about it all day on a website. - repins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet" --Al Gore
for a link try this one http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=al+gore+creating+internet - repins, on 10/12/2007, -9/+12Bush is going away in 2008, so you will get your chance to vote for another looser.
- iventook, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The inventor of the television, Philo Farnsworth, once told his son, "There's nothing on it [television] worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet." It's a bad medium.. doesn't matter how you broadcast it. Although a little more competition never hurts.
- joebolte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"Media control is being consolidated in the hands of a few businesspeople or politicians."
No, no, NO! Why does this crap get repeated every time the media is discussed? At least in the US, we live in in the age where the media is less consolidated than ever before, and gets less consolidated *every day*. And what's the solution to the problem of media "in the hands of businesspeople or politicians"? Should we ban PBS? As a government entity, it's controlled by politicians. And business people? Who else is going to run media *businesses*? ***** hippies? - astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3as for the Bozo Remark:
http://www.rosecity.net/al_gore/bozo.jpg - EComni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That's part of the problem.
The other part is that mainstream news has taught America that news needs to be entertaining. It only got that way because the people that own the major news outlets have a financial interest in having stories or coverage that'll get viewers (the reason why Natalee Holloway is a household name).
A friend of mine said that NPR can have pretty good news, certainly better than CNN and Fox News. But he says its boring.
News isn't supposed to be entertaining, and it's unfortunate that a lot of people have been conditioned to think it should be. - Taromsn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+350 bucks says it's a porn channel by its first month.
- tomwsmf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Is this the same Al Gore who helped his wife bulldoze thru the 80's PMRC laws and started a whole new round of attacks against musicians?
Is this the same Vchip Al Gore?
Ah, the irony, your soaking in it. - SIDSI, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Corporations own and operate the media it will ever be democratic.
- omnithought, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5The thing is, most of the reality-TV-fed masses will never hear of Current. The only real change would come if one of the big networks changed to a similar format, or created a side channel in such a format....but fat chance of that happening.
- esoterroriffik, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Misleading title, Poster shoutld have done a better job editing his post. Especially since Current is over a year old. I know Time-Warner carried Current for a little while on their digital cable, but then I didn't see it, or my friend switched their cable plan. I do like the Google Current flashes that gives a daily popular search segment. I actually found out about Digg through a Current web cast. Current is one of my daily feed checks.
- heartless_, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3For ***** sake this is political opinion not god damned world news.
- brdsofprey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Freuidian slip?
- mhockey14221, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6JayWright, are you serious? Way to set your entire ideology back about 60 years.
- astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@repins .... thank you
@diggity_dank...nuff said' ;) - ViperDaimao, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I question whether this is a problem specific to America. It seems to be a human problem and less of a culture problem.
- b-dizzle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For those of you non-Spanish speakers keeping score at home, Fvaldivia called us peasants of crap and ignorant.
Freetranslation.com says Hhhhhh said this:
"It learns to write in Groins before whimpering in I publish.
And dilè to your breast that many thanks."
My two years of Spanish tell me it probably means this:
"Learn to write in English before posting comments. And tell your mom I said Thanks." - yazuun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Another complaint about the title: should be "democratic" not "Democratic".
- ASHole71, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And there are always more Boys & Girls Clubs to steal money from if needed
- ASHole71, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah all the woman would be in Burkas and we would be praying 5 times a day to Mecca
- Daedalus317, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have only two words about this "Air America"
- isthisnametaken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2recent south park episode...
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