A friend turned me onto this site Current TV. It is both a network and a video website. And is democracy in action. Anyone can make a video and try and air it on the network. Here is a video called Homo No Mo that is both liberating and sad. And this one Fake Iraq is preposterous, absurd and wow.
It seems to be non-partisan and is a great vehicle for those trying to gain exposure or show a certain viewpoint. Thirty percent of the viewership create videos for the network, are voted on and then aired. The network is the brainchild of a Vice President and former Presidential candidate, you guessed it Al Gore and business partner Joel Hyatt. After the 2000 Presidential election Gore and his business partner wanted to create a conventional cable network, but were disenchanted with the current networks. The plan evolved into a viewer generated network. Gore said of the network: "The new network would not have political leanings, but would serve as an "independent voice" for a target audience of people between 18 and 34 "who want to learn about the world in a voice they recognize and a view they recognize as their own." Other reports said that Gore hoped that the channel would help change the tide of "consolidation and conglomeratization" of the media by leading the change to "democratization." The news network was said to be a combination between CNN, MTV, and blipverts." I don't know what blipverts is, because well it is out of my demographic I guess.
More than anything the network is a blend of the internet and TV. Check it out.
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