Al Gore Fights The Big Lie Machine

[StlMo]

Al Gore Fights The Big Lie Machine


This week, as NBC hammers out details on its proposed merger with Vivendi Universal Entertainment, former Vice President Al Gore is trying to finalize his own deal: the purchase of a Universal-owned digital news channel called Newsworld International, a transaction that could herald Mr. Gore’s official transformation from historical footnote to media player with the power to get in the game that he says has lately upset him so.

"He thinks the country is disserved by the absence of truth in news, by the absence of honesty in public-official presentation, by the apparently infinite cynicism of those who currently hold high office," said Reed Hundt, the former chairman of the F.C.C.—the Michael Powell of another political age—who saw through the Telecommunications Act of 1996, as well as a close friend of Mr. Gore’s. "These things disturb him, I know that. He’s made these points to me. I think Al, and to my knowledge dozens of other progressives, would like to go beyond complaining to actually trying to fix the problems." ...

In explaining the power of media on public tastes, Mr. Hundt didn’t bring up News Corp. and Fox News Channel boss Rupert Murdoch. But as Mr. Gore said last year, he considers Fox part of a "fifth column" within the media, responsible for injecting "daily Republican talking points into the definition of what’s objective."

"There’s no question that Democrats are suffering in an environment where there are powerful outlets for anti-Democrat viewpoints," said Bob Somerby, editor of influential political Web site The Daily Howler.

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http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage6.asp

[Old and In the Way]

1. I hope Ted Turner and George Soros are investors...........

I'd subscribe to cable to get this station....

[paper chase guy]

2. me too...

I'd get tivo just for this station as well :D

[samsingh]

7. me too - i'd buy cable

to get that station alone.

[trent21]

3. That's a good idea but Newsworld

only has a few million (I believe less than 20) subscribers in the U.S... so it won't be an alternative to Fox News due to the fact that Fox is on cable systems while Newsworld is only available via satellite and digital cable for the most part. Starting a channel is the easy part. Getting it carried on cable (that is regular cable) is the hard part. Still something is better than nothing.

[mbee]

4. Maybe Move-On could get the word out in the country and we all

could write our cable companies and tell them we're cancelling and going elsewhere if they don't carry the Newsworld International!

[cprise]

5. "a close friend of Mr. Gore’s"

So this Reed Hunt and the Clinton/Gore administration created this media environment we're suffering with, and now Gore expects to make money off this situation by being the only "truthful" broadcaster? All us media-starved lefties are supposed to generate ad revenue for his network which, being owned by a mega-politician, will have the credibility and influence of dogsh!t.

Whether he realizes it or not, Gore wants a media-ghetto, and is helping create comfortable little coffin for the American Left.

Who will be the new board of directors? The DLC?

[Democat]

6. Gore is trying to help the left get some voice in the media

Fox news changed the entire media in America. Gore is going to try to change it again. At least he's trying.