Al Gore Invents Internet TV

catdevnull writes "The SF Gate is reporting that former VP Al Gore is launching "Current" a new CableTV-Internet hybrid. From the article: "Current, the name of Gore's enterprise, hopes to do that by airing a shuffle of short news features, some produced by the network but many submitted online by viewers. Current will also air segments every half hour showing TV viewers what Google searchers are tapping into at that moment -- everything from current events to tourist destinations. It's all directed at a generation that thinks nothing of plugging into more than one media outlet at once." "

Comments

Obligatory Al Gore Link:

[ImaLamer]

Credit for Internet funding by Vinton Cerf & Robert Kahn:

http://tinyurl.com/65ssc

Re:Did he?

[mondoterrifico]

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.htm
Nope. The internet makes you stupid.

Re:Did he?

[SydShamino]

No he didn't. That wasn't his choice of words at all. He said he "took the initiative in creating the internet."

Still a poor choice of words, but you are spouting the same falsehoods as you see on TV/Slashdot.

Snopes Article

And "took the initiative in creating" and "inventing" are most certainly differnt. Nikola Tesla discovered/invented AC power distribution, but George Westinghouse took the initiative in creating the power grid, by providing the money for it. Al Gore's role was more like Westinghouse's, in that he worked to secure funding for the internet and similar projects in the 80s when no one else really cared about them.

Re:What Al Gore said...

[Xoro]

I don't know why people get all worked up about it though.

People get worked up about it because it was used during the 2000 election by right-wing pundits (yes, I mean *you*, Peggy Noonan) to "prove" that Al Gore was a serial liar who couldn't be trusted with the presidency.

So people on the right who get worked up about it do so because they see it as evidence that Gore is a dangerous buffoon who came *this close* to leading the country. People on the left who get worked up about it do so because it confirms for them that Republicans are evil, election-stealing savages.

Still others get worked up because the initial accusations and the long debate that followed seem to suggest that either something is badly wrong with the political system, or possibly that people aren't wearing enough hats.

Take your pick.

The link?

[ImaLamer]

Why not post the link to the Current TV homepage?

It's pretty, and it the layout works with Firefox (unlike some sites)

Re:NSF had nothing to do with his funny claim

[Anonymous Coward]

The quote actually does not, except by wild misinterpretation, actually mean what the widespread, if only in jest, humorous interpretation implies it does. The actual quote: "I took the initiative in creating the Internet." this means, from the political perspective, that he encouraged the allocation of funds for the greater development of the protocols and systems that now comprise the systems that are thought of when "Internet" is heard by the majority, into the commercial entity that it now is.

Re:Who cares?

[centipetalforce]

Dumbass: AA came back and now has 53 stations across the country.

Air America Failed?

[ppp]

AA failed miserably because instead of being original they were shallow and vicious copy cats. Most of their junk was a mean spirited parody of some other sucessful show.

Air America now has 51 stations, and reaches millions of viewers. It is also, according to Time magazine, "financially stable."

If your going to compete with the likes of Rush, Hannity, and the right you need to deliver facts and keep the slant off.

I almost spit up my drink over that line. Do you really believe that Rush and Hannity don't have a "slant"? Sounds like you drank the coolade to me.