Cable Critics Blast 'Gore TV'

[UpInArms]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=televisionNews&storyID=5053883§ion=news

NEW ORLEANS (Hollywood Reporter) - Now that Al Gore has officially made his cable connection, the industry is questioning his grasp of the realities of the cable business.

The former vice president's surprise appearance Tuesday at the National Cable & Telecommunications Assn. (NCTA) convention to announce that he and a group of investors have acquired NewsWorld International news channel from Vivendi Universal was all the buzz among operators and other NCTA attendees.

Still, many at the convention dismissed as quixotic the Gore group's bid to restyle the modestly distributed digital cable/satellite channel as an "independent voice" for the MTV demo.

"This will be the biggest flop liberals have seen since Hillary Clinton's health care plan," remarked a cable executive who wished to remain anonymous.

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Gee, with comments like that I wonder if the anonymous cable executive has a particular political tilt?

[BattyDem]

1. Don't you just love it when they ...

"blast" something that doesn't even exist yet? The sale was announced yesterday! At least wait for some programming to make it to the air before giving your "unbiased" opinion. :eyes:

[candy331]

3. Should have said biggest disastrous flop since the Chimp

was selected.

[BattyDem]

4. ROFL!

:toast:

[rocktivity]

2. WAIT UNTIL IT GETS ON THE AIR, FOR CRIPE'S SAKE!!!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Christ was Socialist]

5. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

now the damn liberals have a tv network and that damn treasonous AirAmerica, shit and they appeal to youth, and give noam chomsky to spit his factual historically verifiable lies. Shit this could me enroads into liberalism in the media

-Your Avergage Right winger

[Democat]

6. "Cable critics" - how about "right wingers"?

The article headline would be quite different if the person buying it were a right winger and the people whining were on the left.

[Zero Gravitas]

7. "The biggest flop..."

Gotta love that "Liberal media" :eyes:

[Democat]

8. No bias in this article....

Feeding fears that the channel will provide a liberal soapbox were Gore's investors, a who's who of Democrat fund-raisers including Joel Hyatt, CEO of the channel's holding company, INdTV Holdings. Others read Gore's emphasis on the word "alternative" as code for left-wing flavoring.

"Fears"? :(

[Tellurian]

9. Typical Pugglie stuff..

They rush to "define" you,

never in a positive light,

when you are not in the fold.

All Al has to say is..

We're starting our own Club!

Yay, Al!

[leesa]

10. If only Hillary's health care plan had been implemented...we would not

have the disaster in healthcare we have today. But Republicans are simply far too stupid to grasp this.

[icymist]

11. Predictions from other anonymous sources

claims that the anonymous cable executive don't know Jack about what he's talking about.

[AlGore-08.com]

12. These are the same morons who thought CNN wouldn't work

"A cable news network? It won't last five minutes!"

It's not just that these guys at the top are right wing yahoos - - they're totally noncreative morons who wouldn't recognize a good idea if it walked up and bit them in the azmuth.

[Crunchy Frog]

13. Oh c'mon,

everybody knows that cable executives are libruls and are part of the insidious librul media. They're probably just worried that Gore's new channel will compete with them for the librul television viewing audience.

[Dr Fate]

14. It will need "star power"....

Corny thing to say, but true. And no problem either- for every Dennis Miller there are one hundred Als and Jeneannes...

It does not necessarily have to be "Liberal"- it can be "alternative"...

If he gets the right people doing it, it could work...

[bluedeminredstate]

15. The same people slammming him

probably see nothing wrong with all right wing talk radio and GE, Fox and Disney securing all the outlets for news in this country.
I hope his "flop" is as impressive as Air America's "flop."

[madrchsod]

16. dish has a couple of unused

numbers in there news numbers, are you listening charly???

[NMDemDist2]

21. send DishNetwork an email

and ask for AAR while you're at it :)

I just did

[orwell]

17. Gore TV

Actually I don't understand the demographic as well.

I think a liberal version of Faux would do well. I don't understand politcal targeting towards this age group.

O

[Paul Hood]

18. Funny last paragraph

<snip>

Carl Vogel, president and CEO of Charter Communications, certainly didn't seem concerned about any potential political or ideological slant. "Hey, we carry Rupert (Murdoch's) stuff," he remarked.

[Triana]

19. Ooooohh! They must feel 'threatened' by it!

EXCELLENT!! Let 'em whine! I hope it scares the little weasels shi*less! Poor babies - feeling threatened and all self-defensive by one little Gore network amongst all their hundreds of reich-wingnut ones?

What a bunch of ninnies. HA!

[Gold Metal Flake]

20. Is this Gore not getting mad but getting even?

Oh, dear. A sudden televised swing to the radical politics of the center. Gasp.

Seriously, couldn't you just see TR striding right into the WH, stomping into the oval office and kicking the living shit out of a screaming *?

Feverous fantasies aside, what might this channel look like? Who would be the on-air staff? I'm anxious to find out. Even with it's problems, AAR has been a blast. But, a suggestion of MTV leaves me cold. I would hope that there would be more substance, at least part of the time. How about a new Sixty Minutes? Documentaries at night. set aside at least an hour a day for foreign-sourced news reports. Stuff like dat.

[SemperEadem]

22. Haters

whiners with crabs in a barrel mentality.

What are they afraid of? The TRUTH getting out, maybe? Them being discovered for the lying shills they are?

Well, now we will be able to get the unfiltered 'other side' of the story.

O'Liely, yesterday, was waxing hysterical yet again over something that had his panties in a bunch and he actually said something to the effect of "well, their side.... you know what? Who cares about their side?" Uh, responsible journalists who've learned the proper techniques for reporting on a story in an unbiased fashion, as the media is SUPPOSED TO BE. If truth is on his side, why is he afraid of what the other side has to say?

O'Liely is such a "mouffi ou moufflarge"...

[xchrom]

23. i can't seem to find my liberal media

anybody seen it?

[dusty64]

24. I guess they

are threatened. The fact that people are seeing through the stranglehold corporations have over the media and the way they are using it to spread lies and blatant propaganda and then actually DOING something about it has them VERY uncomfortable. Its interesting how the snotty "executive" is anonymous. Screw them!

[BiggJawn]

25. OK, Sheeple, you have your Talking Point....

Now get on the phone and tell the nice person at Comcast Bangalore Customer Service that you want EVERY feature they offer EXCEPT Newsworld....

Tell 'em you want the $159-a-month package that includes "free" AO-Hell....

[gasperc]

26. Liberal channel in a liberal media "will be the biggest flop"

ironic ain't it???

Thanks for finally admitting THERE IS NO FUCKING LIBERAL MEDIA!!!!