"Gore: New TV Channel Won't Be Partisan"

[GreenPartyVoter]

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Former Vice President Al Gore, co-founder of a new television channel launching next month, said he's shunning politics - and so is his media venture.

"I consider myself a recovering politician. I'm on step nine," Gore told a meeting Monday of the Television Critics Association.

The 2004 Democratic candidate for president was asked if he was concerned the 24-hour news and information channel, called Current, would be perceived as having a political slant. It's scheduled to launch Aug. 1.

"I think the reality of the network will speak for itself. It's not intended to be partisan in any way," said Gore, Current's co-founder (with businessman Joel Hyatt) and chairman of the board.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20050719/D8BEEHLO1.html

[LSparkle]

1. Just when we NEED some left-wing partisan media

Damn it, Al, you're TOO MUCH of a Democrat -- never wanting to appear partisan or "untoward". We need our own version of Faux and NOW!!!

[LSdemocrat]

8. Well, Faux claims to be unbiased

[Proud2BAmurkin]

2. hopefully it will be "nonpartisan" as fox nt

.

[Johonny]

5. I agree

[andyhappy]

3. Goring

yeah...that whole thing is such a joke...

they are going after 'the youth market'

yeah...america needs another MTV!

he really had a chance to do something profound and then blew it!

[11cents]

4. It sounds like a complete mess

Articles about the startup activities here make it sound like an ungodly combination of neo-hippy horseshit, exploitation, and avarice.

Al Gore remains the smartest imaginable idiot. Sheesh. Politics was never his metier, so I'm glad he's "recovering."

Uh -- but "2004 candidate for president"?

[Montauk6]

6. So, in other words, another status quo MSM station with rock music?

Great! Just what we need. Nothing like getting them while they're young, right?

[maxwall]

7. "2004 candidate for President"? WTF?

I guess we're supposed to think that there WAS no Democrat running for President in 2000...

[On the Road]

11. I Was Just About to Post the Same Thing

Makes you wonder about the source.

[hughee99]

9. Come on, what else is he going to say

"This news channel will present news from the progressive point of view"? If that's the case then it's not really a news channel, it's an editorial channel. Hell, even Faux claims to be non-partisan. I'd be very suprised if it didn't have a little slant to it.

[Montauk6]

10. Repeating a previously posted passage

And it REALLY fits here because it's Gore's ol' pal from the PMRC days, Frank Zappa, from Larry King's Mutual Radio Show from June 6, 1989:


CALLER: Could you elaborate on liberal media bias and spin control?

ZAPPA: Well, what I say in the book is that there is no such thing as a liberal media bias BECAUSE liberals don't own broadcast licenses. All media in the US, presume the rest of the world too, is basically controlled by people who are of the right-wing persuasion; and I think that the concept of liberal media bias was a convenient fiction manufactured during the Reagan Administration.

KING: But you can't say "all," Frank. Gannett would hardly be like a liberal--hardly be a conservative organization. They're a pretty big media owner.

FZ: Mmm, I don't know; if you use USA Today, or that newspaper, as an example, I would say I find things in there that are certainly spun in a rightward direction--

LK: Their editorials, I would say, probably are more liberal 80% of the time.

FZ: Yeah but the editorial isn't what people read. It's the whole smell of that publication is what I'm talking about. Basically, media, in all of its forms, is controlled by people who are not liberal. So, if you raise this boogie man of liberal media bias, it gives you the license, under the idea of American fairness, to give the people on the other side a little bit more time. And so, what happened under the Reagan Administration is they would scream "Liberal media bias; please give more time to the conservative point of view," and then what that did was--it just swamped the country with conservative propaganda. Except that it wasn't conservative propaganda, it was bordering on FASCIST propaganda. And there you have it.

Good luck, Al...

[Hubert Flottz]

12. Al Gore is smart enough to see that Fox and CNN will plunge...

along with Bush when he finally does fall from grace! It's already started!