If the organizers think ABC, CBS, CNN et al are too conservative, you have to wonder just how far out left their proposed new network will be should it ever get off the ground.
Posted on 07/30/2004 3:58:30 PM PDT by pookie18
Top liberals are not happy that the collective "big media" has decided to try to appeal to the entire U.S., rather than just the left - by having some conservatives on their programs, as well as the usual liberal suspects - and so they plan to launch a new television network to counter any views aired on broadcast and cable news that do not conform to their world view.
According to Wired News, the group includes one of the producers of the Clinton documentary, "The Hunting of the President," and the author of a book about corporate influence on politics, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization and High-Finance Fraudsters."
Also yearning for a liberal TV network, Wired reports, are a veteran record producer, multimedia producers for the Democratic Party's website, leftist bloggers and the former head of the Dean Media Team Network, which produced online ads for the Howard Dean presidential campaign.
These far-out, Lefty media heavyweights aren't kidding: "That's what I'm doing right now," Micheal Stinson, who helped arrange the Boston meeting, SummitNet04, and runs the Take Back the Media website, told Wired News. "I'm herding all of the cats."
He said he wants the best progressive journalists and online publishers to join the New Media, the name he uses for the planned network.
Editorial standards at the network will be high, he promised.
"This is about the issues. This is for real," said Stinson who is meeting next week in New York with other New Media planners, including Greg Palast, a rabid left-wing reporter for BBC TV and The Guardian newspaper in London. The group will then begin to looking for investors.
The liberal activists cited the success of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" as an indication that the new network could make it.
But the planned New Media network will be at the mercy of the cable TV giants, an executive at Nielsen Media Research told Wired News.
"They will have to persuade companies like Cox Communications to carry them, and that won't happen if Cox doesn't like the product," he said. "I think Al Gore may have an easier time with the cable companies than they will."
If the organizers think ABC, CBS, CNN et al are too conservative, you have to wonder just how far out left their proposed new network will be should it ever get off the ground.
BWAHAHAHAH!
Oh pookie18, you post such FUNNY STUFF...
...this is a joke, right?
Let us pray that they decide to throw tons of their own money down this rathole. It will keep them from doing other mischief with it!
Personally, I could care less what the "Big Media" has to say at all. I watch Brit Hume at the end of the day cause he is a man of honor and his word and so are most of (I said most) the others.
However, I will still always and forever get all my important information from Rush Limbaugh. He doesn't have guests...doesn't pander to anyone and speaks just like I do. He has been attacked over and over again and rises up every time. That's why I have the tagline I do.
It will be like Air America. It will barely start getting off the ground, then the checks will start bouncing, and it will fade away.
Ping
So, when will Sandy Burglar finish the investigation of himself?
Well, OK fine... however, they cannot call it the New Media. WE are the new media. They should call it what it is - Pravda.
AlGore couldn't help 'em -- NWI carried coverage from CBC & CBC Newsworld...
See? Air America just needed more money. Every TRUE liberal in the US should empty their bank accounts and send the money to this worthwhile endeavor.
Other hijacked terms:
Pro-Choice: Euphimism that now means Pro-Abortion.
Progressive: Used to mean forward-thinking. Something the Dims are not.
Gay: Used to mean Happy
(Feel free to list any other terms the lefties hijacked.)
...this is a joke, right?
After the success of Err America (didn't Franken beat Rush in the ratings...for homeless transsexuals, ages 24-33, between 2:15 & 2:22 PM), how could this be a joke!!!
That's a list I'd like to have. Anyone who is incompetent enough to "invest" in such an ill-fated endeavor doesn't deserve the money anyway. I'll take it.
Soros, Bing...did I already say Soros?
If the organizers think ABC, CBS, CNN et al are too conservative, you have to wonder just how far out left their proposed new network will be should it ever get off the ground.
This says it all. They claim they are going to have HIGH STANDARDS, yet they hold Michael Moore's creation of lies as a standard for them!!! Perfect, I have fallen down the rabbit hole!
Hasn't Err Amerika died already? NOw they want television? LOL That's going to be a whole new level of folding money ;)
It would be so far to the left that, heretofore, only state-sponsored propaganda outlets in communist banana republics could reflect the same sort of derangement.
very funny comment...
it does seem that how the liberials take their polls doesn't it-
thanks for keeping us posted-
Liberals are entirely about emotions. Facts only count if they make you feel good. To them, the truth or falsehood of anything in Moore's movie is irrelevant.
You know, it just dawned on me that Liberals are also not particularly honest. I always knew that, really, but in context it means something special. They may not even intend to make a successful network out of this.
It might just be a scam. After all, its not whether you spent the money actually developing programs that counts, it's that your intentions were good. And your mansion in the Bahamas was well deserved, because of how hard you had to work trying to start a network ....
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