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

I hope this goes over better than Air America

[Shivetya]

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.

Gore says he isn't going to slant the shows yet the list of whos who there is very very slanted.

I just hope he doesn't get as dumb as Rock The Vote has become or worse delve into the nasty politics of MoveOn or similar from the right.

If he truly wants to show that he is sane; yes I doubt it sometimes; lets hope that he doesn't slant it too much and not become just another mouthpiece for the DNC.

If your going to compete with the likes of Rush, Hannity, and the right you need to deliver facts and keep the slant off. Do not copy unless your doing so out of sincere flattery for someone else's job well done. Lastly do not EVER go off on a tirade that borders on a political stump speech.

Oh, please don't blame anyone else if you fail.

Already Invented

[Alien Venom]

See my previous post regarding Aussie TV Networks Fight BitTorrent.

This whole TV on the internet thing has been done already. It's called using BitTorrent and RSS feeds. And is available to everyone (not just the US)! In order for any "official" TV on the internet to be any good, I feel it has to be at least up to par (in terms of quality) with what I can download already -- that means, HDTV-quality releases with the possibility of AC3 sound.

Re:I don't think so

[jlanthripp]

Yup, there's no liberal bias in the news, and nobody calling themselves "journalists" while pushing a liberal agenda...

And Dan Rather never said:

"The new Republican majority in Congress took a big step today on its legislative agenda to demolish or damage government aid programs, many of them designed to help children and the poor."
-- Leading off the March 16, 1995 CBS Evening News.

or

"Republicans kill the bill to clean up sleazy political fundraising. The business of dirty campaign money will stay business as usual."
-- CBS Evening News, February 26, 1998.

or

"There was no doubt Republicans in the House had enough votes tonight to pass another key item in their agenda to rip up or re-write government programs going back to the Franklin Roosevelt era. It is a bill making it harder, much harder, to protect health, safety, and the environment."
-- CBS Evening News, February 28, 1995.

or

"President Bush tonight outlines his cut-federal-programs-to-get-a-tax-cut plan to Congress and the nation."
-- CBS Evening News, February 27, 2001.

or

"I hear you talking and, as I have before on this subject, I don't know of anybody, friend or foe, who isn't impressed by your grasp of the details of this [health care] plan. I'm not surprised, because you have been working on it so long and listened to so many people."
-- Interview with Hillary Clinton, 48 Hours, Sept. 22, 1993.

or

"I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies."
-- Dan Rather on CNN's Larry King Live, June 18, 2004.

or

"This Democratic platform calls for not a single new domestic spending program. In other words, the party continues to march toward what some would call the center, others would say the right."
-- CBS's Democratic convention coverage, July 19, 1984.

or

"Democrats were quick to portray the ticket as, quote, 'two Texas oilmen' because Cheney was chief of a big Dallas-based oil supply conglomerate. They also blast Cheney's voting record in Congress as, again quote, 'outside the American mainstream' because of Cheney's votes against the Equal Rights for Women Amendment, against a woman's right to choose abortion -- against abortion as Cheney prefers to put it -- and Cheney's votes against gun control."
-- Reporting on Bush's selection of Dick Cheney as his running mate, July 25, 2000 CBS Evening News.

or

"Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore officially introduced his history-making running mate today, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut....In their first joint appearance they gave a preview of the Gore-Lieberman fight-back, comeback strategy. Their message: They represent the future, not the past, and they are the ticket of high moral standards most in tune with real mainstream America."
-- Reporting on Lieberman's selection exactly two weeks later, August 8, 2000 CBS Evening News.

Nope, no liberal bias in mainstream media. None at all. Nothing to see here, move along.

At least O'Reilly and Limbaugh have the decency to call themselves commentators. Dan Rather is at least as biased as either of them but got away with calling his editorialization "journalism" for 40 years.