The latest Newsweek devotes five pages to a profile of Current TV. If the name fails to ring any bells, you might remember it as Al Gore‘s cable TV network.
You might find the following paragraph especially amusing.
After it had struggled for six years as an assertively nonpartisan news network, baffling critics and going largely unnoticed by viewers, Current’s founders, Gore and partner Joel Hyatt, had finally come up with what could be a game-changing plan: to reinvent the station as a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week liberal cable-news outlet, a bastion for progressive ideas and politics on television, a way to harness and influence the Democratic Party—in short, as Hyatt says, the “anti-Fox.”
And this idea was designed to differentiate Current TV from other cable news networks in what way? Those interested in a more realistic assessment of the value of ideological media should consult another source.
