Mark Holtz
08-14-06, 09:20 AM
From SF Gate:
Gore's TV idea seems more Current
Viewer-sent content ridiculed a year agoTelevision insiders and pundits mocked Al Gore and Joel Hyatt a year ago when the pair introduced Current TV, their San Francisco-based cable and satellite channel. Even after critics saw that the ex-vice president and Democratic Party fundraiser weren't crafting a left-wing network, few in the change-averse world of television could understand why anyone would tune into Current's programming motif: three- to seven-minute videos created by emerging filmmakers, citizen journalists and the most rank of amateurs -- the viewers themselves. FULL ARTICLE HERE (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/08/14/MNGCIKHTRQ1.DTL)
Gore's TV idea seems more Current
Viewer-sent content ridiculed a year agoTelevision insiders and pundits mocked Al Gore and Joel Hyatt a year ago when the pair introduced Current TV, their San Francisco-based cable and satellite channel. Even after critics saw that the ex-vice president and Democratic Party fundraiser weren't crafting a left-wing network, few in the change-averse world of television could understand why anyone would tune into Current's programming motif: three- to seven-minute videos created by emerging filmmakers, citizen journalists and the most rank of amateurs -- the viewers themselves. FULL ARTICLE HERE (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/08/14/MNGCIKHTRQ1.DTL)