Al Jazeera Just Bought Al Gore’s TV Station
From The New York Times:
Al Jazeera on Wednesday completed a deal to take over Current TV, the low-rated cable channel that was founded by Al Gore and his business partners seven years ago.
No real commentary here other than, “this is hilarious.” Current TV was an obscenely partisan dumpster fire. It was an entire channel that seemed to be founded on the belief that Al Gore’s mildly successful, theatrically released global warming slideshow proved he knew how to create compelling content, and that people actually liked watching Keith Olbermann, one of America’s top five most punchable faces. So in other words, it was the final product of a lot of bad ideas.
It looks like Al Jazeera is going to try and make a legitimate international news source for American viewers out of the channel.
“Al Jazeera is planning to invest significantly in building ‘Al Jazeera America,’ a network focused on international news for the American audience,” the Current chief executive Joel Hyatt said in an e-mail to staffers on Wednesday evening. Referring to Mr. Gore, he said, “Al and I will both serve on the advisory board of Al Jazeera America, and we look forward to helping build an important news network.”
Now, Al Jazeera may be a deplorable, terrorist sympathizing news outlet, but hey, at least they won’t be putting Keith Olbermann back on TV, amiright?
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Ain’t nobody got time for that
12 years ago at 6:02 pm^yes
12 years ago at 9:59 pm^ you stole that from Reddit
12 years ago at 6:47 am^I think the word yes was around before reddit
12 years ago at 12:19 pmFigures. Current TV is already full of terrorist sympathizers so they might as well be owned by terrorists.
12 years ago at 6:26 pmI’m goning to go out on a limb and guess you’ve never actually watched Al Jazeera.
12 years ago at 6:35 pm^ this. For international news, pretty legit. Even if they do sympathize with terrorists.
12 years ago at 7:06 pm^ ^^ Fuck both of you raghead-loving liberal pieces of shit.
12 years ago at 7:12 pm^when you were being born, someone walked by and said “Hey look, its some cunt coming out of that cunts cunt.”
12 years ago at 7:20 pm^^^^^ Al Jazeera is actually pretty legit
12 years ago at 9:03 pmhate to be “that guy” BUT, when I was deployed overseas all we watched was Al J… it’s actually super legit and they even have an ‘Merican guy do their sports.
12 years ago at 10:00 pmAlJ is spot on for international news, at least its run by the Arabs and not some other fuckhead middleeastern shithole.
12 years ago at 12:28 pmIf the President wants to tax something, why doesn’t he tax this deal at 100%? Maybe 101% just to stick it to Gore.
12 years ago at 7:17 pmAl Jazeera America? Something about that doesn’t sound right. I’m going to start a news station called, “Fuck ragheads America.”
12 years ago at 8:11 pmGore rammed this deal through so he can avoid the higher taxes he would have had to pay once the new year hit and we went off the fiscal cliff. Fuck him and fuck democrats.
12 years ago at 12:55 amWait a minute, a democrat not trying to pay higher taxes?
12 years ago at 10:19 amSo basically you’re telling me that a towel head making a pro-terrorism channel with al gore working on the advisory board and pushing the channel liberal?
NO THANKS
12 years ago at 9:25 amAl Gore had a TV station?
12 years ago at 2:40 pmAl Jazeera has some of the worlds best reporters and is renowned for their non-biased reporting. Calling them a “terrorist sympathizing” news outlet is bullshit. Keith Oberman is crazy.
12 years ago at 1:46 am