Gore and Current

Al Gore with a cable network? I wonder what McChesney and Nichols have to say about this? By checking out the Current website www.current.tv, you will find fashionable youthful parlance sprinkled throughout, include those incredibly annoying chatting phrases. The Nation suggest that this new channel will be an graduate student version of MTV, while I am not exactly sure what is meant by that, I hope that it is not the case. We don’t need another channel that is like MTV.

While I am dubious about its departure from contemporary media, I am hopeful. Gore has said that this will not be the mouthpiece of the Democratic Party, and I sure hope that is the case. I would like to see something that is truly challenging of contemporary media, but Gore has given us no reason to believe this will happen.

The ascertain is that the network needs to be modeled into a format that young people will like (which is code for already works), and that a departure from this method will prevent getting the message across. But Allah please, we don’t need anymore reality shows. Do people really like these, or do they just watch them because they are hyped so much? If I were a network I would hype them too, no actors to pay, no fancy sets to build. Its just money, money, and mo’ money.

I have digressed. Well… maybe not. Gore needs to have a network that is economically viable, or it will collapse. His wealthy buddies have tossed money into the coffers to get this bird of the ground, but their pockets certainly, like oil, are soon to dry up.

So here is to Current, and Mr. Al Gore. Hope you do something… in the mean time, turn on Jon Stewart, at least he saved of from the hell that was Crossfire.