Al Gore is Co-founder of a TV Station?

[Land Rover]

Has anyone on here heard of Current before?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21319210/

"The network, which already lets professional videographers submit video news segments, is going several steps further on Monday by soliciting user feedback over the Web and converting submissions into online news as well as pieces for broadcast.

Its network programming runs on cable and satellite broadcasters in select U.S. markets, Britain and Ireland."

[F4 Fan]

Based in San Francisco and they just won an Emmy. Of course Al did them one better by winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

It's the ultimate heaven for VJ's.


http://www.mercurynews.com/tv/ci_7182722

[villagevidiot]

hmmm i smell a pay off....

[C St. SW]

Yes...Gore and some money bags bought the old News World International cable channel a couple of years ago and turned it into Current.

[pre-set]

I can't make any sense of Currents' programming titles...

Ever look at them on your cable guide? They have names like "No New Taxes" (funny for a Dem to say that!) but when I watch it, it was a 5 minute mini-doc about building a skateboard ramp followed by another about an Indian resturant milling currie powder.

WTF does that have to do with "No New Taxes"?

Or am I just too unhip to get the joke?

[rocky1138]

so when are the "Al Gore invented the VJ" jokes going to start?

[Land Rover]

so when are the "Al Gore invented the VJ" jokes going to start?

I was waiting for that one...

[Necktie Boy]

Hummm
I guess this is the same Current TV that we are talking about?

DV Documentary Filmmakers/Journalists
San Antonio documentary filmmakers and journalists, we need your help!
Current TV is an international cable news and information network with the goal of democratizing media. Nearly 40% of our content comes from our viewers! Where do you come in? I'm building an international and national team of citizen journalists right now. Our citizen journalists work with each other and Current TV to cover news and issues in their respective territories. They're basically Current's "eyes and ears" in their hometowns. So if you live in the greater San Antonio region and you can produce a mini-documentary (3-7 min. long) from start to finish, we want to hear from you!

Your first project is on spec, but if you get your documentary on our international cable channel, you get paid--starting at $500 and up.

San Antonio is a really important city for news and information--especially with elections right around the corner--and we don't have a citizen journalist there yet! So if you think you're up to the challenge, send us an email--but PLEASE put exactly where you're responding from in the SUBJECT line!

http://sanantonio.craigslist.org/tfr/452002220.html

I found it on the CL.....

[sixtycyclehum]

Hummm

Your first project is on spec, but if you get your documentary on our international cable channel, you get paid--starting at $500 and up.

http://www.no-spec.com/wp-content/themes/no-spec/images/no_spec_logoband.gif

Open Letter to CL (Craigslist) Administration (http://www.no-spec.com/archives/open-letter-to-craigslist)

[sneakybastard]

so when are the "Al Gore invented the VJ" jokes going to start?

He claimed he invented the internet...so now lets add the VJ to his resume. Now he and MR can duke it out to see who created it first.

[satop]

He claimed he invented the internet...so now lets add the VJ to his resume. Now he and MR can duke it out to see who created it first.

He never claimed to invent the internet.....Trent Lott and the media took that out of context......and neither Gore or MR claim they created the VJ model.......come on you might not like Gore but come get facts straight

[Baltimore Shooter]

...you might not like Gore but come get facts straight
He won't let the facts get in the way of a chance to bash a Democrat. Like the rest of the Right Wing media.

Warren

[eb]

He never claimed to invent the internet.....Trent Lott and the media took that out of context......and neither Gore or MR claim they created the VJ model.......come on you might not like Gore but come get facts straight

Facts: MR did claim to be "the founder of the VJ movement" for some time.
He now is said to be the "father" of backpack journalism.

[satop]

Facts: MR did claim to be "the founder of the VJ movement" for some time.
He now is said to be the "father" of backpack journalism.

While I can't stand MR and his VJ's......he might claim to be the founder of the movement....but not the creator of vj's all together. I don't know who created vj's or the one man band but it was not either MR or Gore.

[eb]

MR and his VJs are here to stay.

The VJ movement happened because technological changes made it feasible, practical, economical, desirable, useful, etc...

The people or person who deserves credit are those electrical engineers who developed the computer technologies. Those are the "tools we use."

"Video Journalism" has been produced since the first one man band did a nats sound story... whoever that was. There were many who shot, edited, wrote and reported or produced by themselves.

Michael was certainly one of the first, if not the first, to make a business - and produce network programming - based on small camera handheld style. He has been involved in that style for quite a while. So he has laid claim to being on the forefront of the "movement." Although, some could argue that the movement is being moved by technology and economics. I don't want to take anything away from Michael. I am simply trying to state the facts. The VJ style of gathering content is here to stay. In fact it is expanding rapidly. That doesn't mean the method of two or three person crews is going to be obsolete. That might be where MR made a few boisterous claims. He does have an economic business interest, and is selling his idea for those reasons. So he has been called on some of his hyperbole. All methods of gathering content are going to be used. Quality content will always succeed. Then quality craft, creativity and commitment will follow. That's how I see it.

[wutang]

Maybe that should be a trivia question....Who was the first one man band? I don't think anyone on this board is old enough to figure that one out, and there are some old S.O.B'S out in b-roll land...

[amp]

Some of Current's stuff is great. They did a real look at life behind the iron curtain of North Korea. Great stuff. But some of it is just crap. It is real hit and miss. They need to have a more predictible schedule.