Coal To Newcastle - Algore's

Coal To Newcastle - Algore's proposed TV network won't be liberal.

Former vice president Al Gore and a group of investors have plans to launch an all-news channel, but it won't be a liberal alternative to Fox News. Instead, it will be aimed at the under-25 crowd.

"Liberal TV is dead on arrival," said an insider advising Mr. Gore and his team. "You just can't do it."

Unstated; even if the new, "young, hip" news channel apes the biases of the mainstream media, it's still...what? I don't want to keep seeing the same hands, here, people.

Some observers feel that despite the change in tack, a network led by Mr. Gore will not be able to erect a firewall thick enough to insulate it from his Democratic Party affiliation.

"If there is any transparency to Gore, then it will be identified as a partisan operation, which will alienate advertisers," said the sales executive.

"The problem with being associated as liberal is that they wouldn't be going in a direction that advertisers are really interested in," said Paul Rittenberg, senior VP-advertising and market research, Fox News. "We don't get business for being conservative, we get business because the ratings are good and we believe that we're fair. If you go out and say that you are a liberal network, you are cutting your potential audience and certainly your potential advertising pool, right off the bat. "

And it would be redundant.

UPDATE: Read the story above, then read this, and tell me which is the satire...

Posted by Mitch at October 14, 2003 06:37 AM