Wow. Looks like I am going to have to get TiVo--Gore considers starting cable network

The Associated Press
6/19/2003, 10:03 a.m. CT

NEW YORK (AP) -- Former Vice President Al Gore, once a newspaper reporter, may be getting back into the media business.

Gore has been meeting with potential investors interested in creating a cable television network, Time magazine's online edition reported Wednesday.

230 channels and STILL nothing on. O for the days when there were only three channels, and a remote control was handing your kid a pair of pliers to turn the dial.

There's been a lot of talk in Democratic circles about launching a media enterprise to counter dominant GOP voices. Political talk radio is dominated by conservative voices and Fox News Channel, the top-rated cable news outlet, is also very popular among conservatives. [...]

Good grief, can't these filthy liberals just watch porn?!

A television executive who has had discussions with Gore said the idea is in its "embryonic" stages.

Well, let's hope someone exercises their "right to choose."

But it's not a liberal version of a cable news network, said Steve Rosenbaum, head of the New York-based documentary producers Camera Planet.

Uh-huh.

Gore was a fan of "Unfiltered," a series Camera Planet produced for MTV that put cameras in the hands of viewers. The idea of empowering viewers is "philosophically appealing" to backers of a new network, Rosenbaum said.

Poor MTV. I remember when it was cool.

Oh well. Good way to suck up some cash from well-meaning folks, I suppose--the very fact that the backers find the idea of empowering [aak!] viewers to be "philosophically appealing" [spttth!] means that loud hammering you hear is a couple of guys putting the nails in the coffin. (Sure wish they could have worked "synergistic" and "holistic" in there, too.)

"The only thing I'm confident of is that it will look like nothing you've ever seen on television, which is part of the excitement of it," Rosenbaum said. [...]

Wow. Nothing like having confidence, eh?

Anyway, I've said it before, I'll say it again--if you want to see something exciting and like nothing else you've seen on television, I've got the first 26 episodes of PossumblogTV already written. Call me--we'll talk.
posted by Terry at 10:38:00 AM