The Improved: You Heard It At EA First

[moi621 (imported)]

Stormin' Norman

has passed.

[A-1 (imported)]

...or in the "Bowl" of the "throne"...

[moi621 (imported)]

Al Jazeera has purchased Current TV from Al G. and partner.

http://news.yahoo.com/al-jazeera-buys-c ... nance.html

"LOS ANGELES (AP) — Al-Jazeera, the Pan-Arab news channel that has struggled to win space on American cable television, has acquired Current TV, Al Gore confirmed Wednesday.

Gore and his partner Joel Hyatt announced the sale in a statement.

"Current Media was built based on a few key goals: To give voice to those who are not typically heard; to speak truth to power; to provide independent and diverse points of view; and to tell the stories that no one else is telling," Gore and Hyatt said.

"Al-Jazeera has the same goals and, like Current, believes that facts and truth lead to a better understanding of the world around us."

The acquisition could extend Al-Jazeera's reach beyond a few large U.S. metropolitan areas, where some people can watch Al-Jazeera English. "

CURRENT TV and the goal of truthiness ! ? Sold to the Pan Arab Network.

Why?

Moi

You Heard it At EA First. Unbiasedly. :-\

Truthiness is the property of the beholder, I guess.

[Dave (imported)]

When Gore bought CURRENT I wondered how long it would take him to get bored and sell it.

From the online news stories, Al Jazeera is going to replace the programming with its own programming. I suspect people from that portion of the world will find them interesting. I might look in once in a while.

Years ago, I used to watch the BBC news in the mornings when I was getting ready for work and most of the news they put on the air was of very little interest or no consequence to me. The international news segments that reported on the USA had a very different viewpoint from any news reports in the USA.

One of my neighbors got a satellite system for their TV because they wanted the farm and horse channels to help with their two or three horses and their mini-farm. I suspect Al Jazeera will be like that.

[A-1 (imported)]

The time for opening the Political boards is drawing nigh... WATCH OUT FOR THAT CLIFF... or was it a Grassy Knoll?

[Dave (imported)]

I had no intention of that being a political comment. It was my observation about why people watch odd news channels.

Everyone foreign national I knew either got their newspapers from the bigger newsstands or mailed to them

Or got the cable version of their TV news If available.

My cable has news from India and Hispanic channels. Every so often I watch one of the Hispanic channels when it shows a movie iin English and the commercials and promos are in Spanish. I know COMCAST has a Russian channel. They also have a BRitish Soccer channel because that's gaining an audience...

I think that's rather nice.

However, the day Gore bought Current, I thought to myself "3 to 5 years and he's bored and sells the network" and damn if that wasn't true. Maybe off by a year or two but boredom is boredom.

[moi621 (imported)]

When Gore bought CURRENT I wondered how long it would take him to get bored and sell it.

From the online news stories, Al Jazeera is going to replace the programming with its own programming. I suspect people from that portion of the world will find them interesting. I might look in once in a while.

Years ago, I used to watch the BBC news in the mornings when I was getting ready for work and most of the news they put on the air was of very little interest or no consequence to me. The international news segments that reported on the USA had a very different viewpoint from any news reports in the USA.

One of my neighbors got a satellite system for their TV because they wanted the farm and horse channels to help with their two or three horses and their mini-farm. I suspect Al Jazeera will be like that.

What will happen to the Turk, Cenk Uygur?

I like his programming. Not his wheezy rants.

Moi

[Dave (imported)]

What will happen to the Turk, Cenk Uygur?

I like his programming. Not his wheezy rants.

Moi

He'll find a job elsewhere. Someone will employ him doing political commentary. All of this type of political programming is grounded in the nonsense that people actually listen to them during the day. Uygur didn't attract a TV audience so he'll probably get a job writing or producing the news. Maybe he'll go out and do real work and join a congressional staff.

Time Warner already dropped Current because they are idiotically afraid that any American seeing that viewpoint will become traitors to the USA political system. I'm like - this is all fucking horseshit all over again batman... I used to have to get people to do a maintenance plan for every piece of equipment,or do a chemical inventory of the thousand or so chemicals in jars they kept in their lab, or do plans for next year, or comply with the ISO directives. AND LET ME SAY THIS -- all of that is mindless, tedious, oddly useful but humdrum busy work.

The IDEA that one look or a couple hours of another viewpoint is ever going to convince someone to become traitors to the USA is a sure sign of undiagnosed bovine spongiform encephalopathy or raging Alzheimer's in the already weak willed.

That Time Warner would do such a thing preemptively shows just how ignorant, craven and politically irrelevant their management is to their programming.

Stupidity such as this is not political, it is only one thing STUPID. Time Fucking Warner is in the business of delivering entertainment to people. They would be considered totally incompetent if they removed all hispanic channels or all Cooking channels or all AMC (think The Walking Dead fiasco) from their network. I repeat -- TOTAL INCOMPETENCE. and yet they pull CURRENT to gain shitty political goals and appease lock-step partisans.

To come back to Al Gore.

What did he think would happen when he bought a TV network? How long did he think the thrill would last?

Three to five years --

Where I used to work before I retired into writing short stories, for a long time, the organization stratified itself by not changing bosses for 10 or 15 year. Then we got a new boss and new partners and new offices and reorganized and that NEW BOSS change her associate bosses and Division heads every three years. Stir the pot and get new viewpoints into the mix.

That's why I knew CURRENT wouldn't last.

Al Gore wasn't Ted Turner or Richard Ailes.

[Riverwind (imported)]

Gore bought a TV station? who knew?

River

[A-1 (imported)]

Gore bought a TV station? who knew?

River

Well, you see... it was an inconvenient truth...