Al Gore's 'Current TV'
 

Al Gore has created a TV channel called 'Current TV', currently on channel 125 of my Comcast cable.

It's aimed at Internet savvy 18-34 year olds; I'm in the 'demographic range', but I'm a little lost as to what it's all supposed to be about. They have short segments where viewers have sent in their own news reports (called Pods), I just saw one about buying sneakers - before I turned it over to watch something far more interesting.

Cable TV is crammed with crap already and this doesn't seem to be anything different. There's a reason regular people don't make TV - because it would be crap.

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It must be good though after all, he invented the internet........ :zzz:

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This shite has taken over the channel that used to be occupied by Newsworld international, the only decent newschannel on telly. It used to show the ITN news daily which I loved.
I am also in their demographic, but this channel is shite. I watched it for 5 minutes the other day, but a "pod" on finding Paris Hilton's phone number is not news.

Another complete load of crap.....

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Not nice to speak about someone who almost became President of the USA. :)

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You're right - it's much more fun to slag off the guy who actually did become president.

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The guy lost to Dubya FFS. If that's not grounds for taking the piss, I don't know what is :D

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Paris Hilton ran for President :eek: ...........when?

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Yup, we're mourning the loss of ITV News too. Who would have guessed that we'd miss the tabloid journalism that passes for National News on ITV now? :D

The BBC World News just seems so... serious. All those wars and stuff, and in all those countries we're not interested in!

;)

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Agreed,
NWI was the only news channel worth watching, and the ITV news was the only true UK news that I managed to find over here. My treat of an evening was the 1/2 hour catchup on what's happening in the UK.

BBC News 24 is a pile of poo. I get it on one of the PBS channels, but it has terrible quality (you know, green people strange colors etc). Have you noticed how they just take 1/2 hour of whatever was on News -24 and then just replay that? The other morning I went to watch the morning news, the whole 1/2 hour was something about Condelezza Rice (or however you spell her name). No news there then.

Is it just me or is Rice a very scary woman? There's just something about her that isn't quite right.

I really do not watch much TV any more (maybe 1 hour per week), and am considering cancelling my cable contract, it really is that bad....

- Tim

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You're right! She's scary and not quite right but with brains = bloody dangerous. :scared: