GORE TV?

[John Corn]

When asked for their views on television during the 2000 election, Al Gore thought there was too much sexualy explicit material on TV. George Bush added to that by saying there was too much violence.

So Bush thought there was too much Gore.
Gore thought there was too much Bush. :D

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,459345,00.html?cnn=yes

[RichW]

And then we all got "woodies" by watching the bombs and missles fall on Baghdad.

[BobMurdoch]

I keep thinking about how much Denis Leary must have loved the Operation Iraqi Freedom LIVE show.....

(He did a bit in his No Cure for Cancer show about his love of the first Persian Gulf War coverage on TV)

[SamC]

All of the trueisms that people say about liberal TV/radio bear repeating here:

- We already have liberal talk radio. Its called NPR.

- Conservative talk radio has a natural audience that liberal talk radio will never have, that is to say, people in a car driving to some sort of job.

- Talk radio is equal time. The "mainstream" media is all liberal, its just that RL, BO'R, GGL, etc admit they are biased, while DR, TB, and PJ won't.

- You can't maintain an audience with liberal talk. Conservatism is about reason and logic. You can agree, you can disagree, but you can talk about it forever. Liberalism is about emotion. Once you say "I care, you don't, and that makes me better than you" you are done and have nothing else to say.

- This will be different from (fill in the blank with any of the hundreds of failed "we are going to take on Rush liberal show failures) exactly how?

[dtcarson]

Not to mention, there's an inherent difference:
Rush Limbaugh, Bill OReilly [who I think is more conservative than liberal, but is not a 'Republican'], Liddy, etc, they're all COMMENTATORS. You don't tune in for them to read you the news, you tune in for their commentary/opinion/interpretation of the news. As such, they have every right to have whatever opinion and 'spin' on in that they want to make. Most of the people and networks on the left claim to be 'news'. Limbaugh spinning? Good. Koppel, Jennings, etc, spinning? Bad. Those people are supposed to be REPORTERS, whose job it is to REPORT the news [except in any 'My Opinion' sections.]. I know it's hard to be totally objective, we all see everything through our own personal lens, but if they insist on seeing it through their left lens and calling it 'news', maybe they're in the wrong industry. And when 93% of the 'mainstream media' consistently vote farther left than the rest of the public, that's a sign. Maybe there should be more engineers or other technical people in the news reporting business, because they'll stick more with facts.
I wouldn't care if Karl Marx were doing the news, if he could leave it as NEWS instead of crap like 'Is George Bush's tax cut going to make children starve?'
For instance, check out the first paragraph of this article: I'm not even worried about the facts, but just the way it's written, and tell me that's not spin:

http://msnbc.com/news/928242.asp?0dm=N26CN

I'm sorry, that's not 'news'. That's poorly-masqueraded insults and allusions. If he has that opinion, fine, but if should be on the 'Opinions' page, not on the 'News->Politics' page under the guise of 'news.' And Al Gore thinks they need a network? Not when someone writes this, and some other editor thinks it's innocuous.

[BobMurdoch]

Nice to see Donahue will be able to get a job again.