Al Gore: know when to stay beat.
Written by: Beck
Reuters
reports that Al Gore is planning on launching a new TV show, thought by many to be intended as a challenge to Fox's dominance of the cable news shows. From Reuters, we have:
Gore led an investor group that bought Newsworld International from Vivendi Universal for an undisclosed sum. He plans to relaunch the yet-unnamed channel to focus on public affairs and entertainment for 18-to-34-year-olds and it will not have a political affiliation.
And
Zap2it further reports:
"We are launching an exciting television network for young men and women who want to know more about their world and who enjoy real-life stories created with, by and for their own generation," says Gore, who will serve as chairman of INdTV. "These stories will be in a voice that young people recognize and from a point of view they identify as their own."
Remind you of anything? To paraphrase Dennis Miller, I liked it better the first time around, when it was called "MTV".
This quote from the first article rather bothered me:
Speculation has swirled that Gore would launch a network to counter Fox News Channel, which unseated CNN as the No. 1 U.S. cable news channel with a formula of combining hard news coverage with brash talk shows that some have criticized as conservative.
How is it exactly that labeling something as conservative is by definition a criticism? Regardless, Gore should learn the lesson currently being taught daily to Al Franken and company over at the pathetic and overwrought Air America (wait, I almost forgot, Liberals don't believe in learning from history). "Funny" and "Liberal" just don't go together (ditto for "Al Gore" and "cool").
(link credit to
Daniel Drezner.)