Apparently, Al Gore Didn't Want to Sell Current TV to Oil-Rich Al Jazeera
Did you really believe that Al Gore would get away with selling Current TV to Al Jazeera for $500 million without getting sued? Silly optimist.
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It's a pretty big day at Al Jazeera America — the company confirmed its first bold faced name hire, and set up a brand spanking social media account for the kids to follow along with at home.
Did you really believe that Al Gore would get away with selling Current TV to Al Jazeera for $500 million without getting sued? Silly optimist.
Al Gore is a complicated, accomplished man. Sometimes, he's misunderstood, while other times he's misunderestimated. But Al Gore is not disingenious. At least, according to Al Gore he's not.
Rebecca Dana on Current TV, Paul Krugman on budget bickering, Jeremy Warner on robotic economic growth, Tim Padgett on Venezuela's ailing leader, and William Pesek on India's rape case.
We knew that Time Warner Cable dropped Current from its programming line-up, for reasons that remain unclear, right after it was sold to Al Jazeera. But now it's looking like other cable companies are looking for the first possible way out.
Within hours of CurrentTV officially being sold to Al Jazeera—netting Al Gore a cool $100 million—Time Warner Cable pulled the network from its channel lineups.
We're still not sure how much the surging news organization will pay for Current TV, but we're pretty sure there is a difference between people tuning in to a channel... and just having it available somewhere on your dial.
On Tuesday Al Jazeera became the latest casualty in the online war raging alongside the Syrian conflict as hackers claiming to be Syrian loyalists defaced it with a screed against its coverage, but they weren't terribly thorough.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda, the Brian Williams of China has some explaining to do, a Photoshop fail has no explanation, and a U.S. congressman wants to repeal a ban on domestic propaganda.
In today's tour of state-run propaganda, China's media pounces on Melissa Chan, North Koreans get a taste of the real world and Syrian media goes X-rated.
It's the first time China has expelled a foreign correspondent in 14 years, so whatever Al Jazeera English's Melissa Chan did to have her visa denied, it must have been pretty monumental, right?
In today's tour of state-run propaganda, Mali goes off air, Iranian media betrays its favorite U.S. presidential candidate, North Korea's Andy Warhol is profiled by CNN and propaganda gets out of control in the Middle East.
We had a hunch Al Jazeera would decide not to air the video footage it received from Toulouse shooter Mohamed Merah, and on Tuesday the network tersely confirmed that while an official source told the AP that the video came from an accomplice, not Merah himself.
If the public ever sees the video of Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah, it could be through Al Jazeera, which reportedly received a flash drive containing the footage Merah shot as he carried out his campaign of murder, but it's doubtful the network will decide to show it.
The former defense secretary has sparred with the network over the Iraq war
It's a real change of heart after all that trash-talking he did during the Bush years
It's time for our regular roundup of propaganda from around the world
Even WikiLeaks is careful to point out that it's probably a pretty complicated situation
It's time for our regular roundup of propaganda from around the world
It will be "subletting" a spot on the cable channel RISE
Parvaz landed in Damascus on Friday and never checked into her hotel
Reuters claims Al Jazeera is ignoring the unrest in the island nation
Viewers trust Al Jazeera's coverage--when it's got the CNN logo on it
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