Title: Current's biggest obstacle is Al Gore
Description: Idiots already bashing AL
Description: Idiots already bashing AL
ALGOREismylife - August 3, 2005 06:16 PM (GMT)
It didn't take long for the slimeballs to start bashing AL GORE two days after the debut of Current.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?...D&siteid=google
Current's biggest obstacle is Al Gore
By Jon Friedman, MarketWatch
Last Update: 12:01 AM ET Aug. 3, 2005
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Making it big on television has always been all about popularity. This is especially true in an era when reality programs can lift utterly nameless, faceless Joes and Janes to become overnight celebrities.
Al Gore, busy these days launching a TV network called "Current," has a large obstacle to overcome named -- you guessed it! -- Al Gore, its chairman. Gore's task is showing that he is popular enough to make Current a hit, not merely a curiosity
When people think of Gore, they seldom nod vigorously in a gesture of support for him. He is respected but not necessarily admired. Hardened Republicans -- those sore winners! -- love to deride the sitting Vice President who couldn't capitalize on his fame, and lost to presidential challenger Gov. George Bush of Texas.
On the other hand, Democrats have a bitter memory of Gore, who, through either ignorance or arrogance, declined the offer by two-term President Bill Clinton and disastrously campaigned on his own during most of the 2000 fiasco.
But partisan politics was given the first day off. Current's lineup of stories on Monday, reaching about 20 million homes, included two scary-to-ponder items -- people parachuting off bridges in Oregon and the sex lives of teenagers.
The network's hallmark is programming coming from amateurs using home video cameras. In the Washington Times, Jennifer Harper correctly described Current as "Al Gore's cable-TV network for the young and restless." They are the 18-to-34 year-old people that Current desperately wants to touch.
These days, Gore is dressing in oh-so-cool black and charcoal gray threads. He has been quoted as denying that Current will morph into the TV version of the overtly left-leaning radio network Air America or that it will shill for the 2008 Democratic presidential candidate (who, presumably, won't be named Al Gore).
Achieving TV success figures to be an uphill battle for Gore, 57, who was Vice President from 1993 to 2001, regardless of his fame.
Chris Cramer, the managing director of CNN International, suggests that Gore's biggest challenge will boil down to "eyeballs."
"We're all in a battle for relevancy," Cramer said. "They're not immune from this."
Maybe Gore just can't win. I WANT to think fondly of a speech I saw him give at Madison Square Garden shortly after the November 1995 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel. Gore was fiery and articulate and altogether brilliant.
But then, my mind wanders to the hilarious presidential "debate" on "Saturday Night Live," when Darrell Hammond lampooned Gore's image by burning "lock-box" into our collective memories.
In addition, there was that unforgettable kiss that Gore laid on his seemingly startled wife Tipper at the Democratic convention, presidential politics' version of Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in "From Here to Eternity."
Sometimes he has flat-out tried too hard to make an impression on the American public. Gore has had to do a lot of explaining to the American public during his distinguished career of public service. He'll need to use all of his savvy to make Current a big success.
But Gore is no stranger to using the media. Remember, he invented the Internet.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?...D&siteid=google
Current's biggest obstacle is Al Gore
By Jon Friedman, MarketWatch
Last Update: 12:01 AM ET Aug. 3, 2005
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Making it big on television has always been all about popularity. This is especially true in an era when reality programs can lift utterly nameless, faceless Joes and Janes to become overnight celebrities.
Al Gore, busy these days launching a TV network called "Current," has a large obstacle to overcome named -- you guessed it! -- Al Gore, its chairman. Gore's task is showing that he is popular enough to make Current a hit, not merely a curiosity
When people think of Gore, they seldom nod vigorously in a gesture of support for him. He is respected but not necessarily admired. Hardened Republicans -- those sore winners! -- love to deride the sitting Vice President who couldn't capitalize on his fame, and lost to presidential challenger Gov. George Bush of Texas.
On the other hand, Democrats have a bitter memory of Gore, who, through either ignorance or arrogance, declined the offer by two-term President Bill Clinton and disastrously campaigned on his own during most of the 2000 fiasco.
But partisan politics was given the first day off. Current's lineup of stories on Monday, reaching about 20 million homes, included two scary-to-ponder items -- people parachuting off bridges in Oregon and the sex lives of teenagers.
The network's hallmark is programming coming from amateurs using home video cameras. In the Washington Times, Jennifer Harper correctly described Current as "Al Gore's cable-TV network for the young and restless." They are the 18-to-34 year-old people that Current desperately wants to touch.
These days, Gore is dressing in oh-so-cool black and charcoal gray threads. He has been quoted as denying that Current will morph into the TV version of the overtly left-leaning radio network Air America or that it will shill for the 2008 Democratic presidential candidate (who, presumably, won't be named Al Gore).
Achieving TV success figures to be an uphill battle for Gore, 57, who was Vice President from 1993 to 2001, regardless of his fame.
Chris Cramer, the managing director of CNN International, suggests that Gore's biggest challenge will boil down to "eyeballs."
"We're all in a battle for relevancy," Cramer said. "They're not immune from this."
Maybe Gore just can't win. I WANT to think fondly of a speech I saw him give at Madison Square Garden shortly after the November 1995 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel. Gore was fiery and articulate and altogether brilliant.
But then, my mind wanders to the hilarious presidential "debate" on "Saturday Night Live," when Darrell Hammond lampooned Gore's image by burning "lock-box" into our collective memories.
In addition, there was that unforgettable kiss that Gore laid on his seemingly startled wife Tipper at the Democratic convention, presidential politics' version of Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in "From Here to Eternity."
Sometimes he has flat-out tried too hard to make an impression on the American public. Gore has had to do a lot of explaining to the American public during his distinguished career of public service. He'll need to use all of his savvy to make Current a big success.
But Gore is no stranger to using the media. Remember, he invented the Internet.
earthmother - August 3, 2005 09:48 PM (GMT)
Oh, screw this guy. :mad:
JoshPurple - August 4, 2005 04:31 AM (GMT)
Right On Earth Mother!!
Jon Friedman SUCKS!!!
Jon Friedman is Media Editor for MarketWatch in New York.
Jon Friedman SUCKS!!!
Jon Friedman is Media Editor for MarketWatch in New York.