Current TV RIP
 

Sold to Al Jazeera. To be rebranded as a new Al Jazeera Cable news channel. My carrier, Time Warner has already dropped them like a hot potato. I wonder what their featured contributors are going to do? Stephanie Miller/The Young Turks/Jenn Granholm and Elliott Spitzer. Oh well, scuttlebutt has been rolling around for some time that the company was in trouble and their demise was predicted earlier in 2012. No real big surprise but sad nonetheless.

The sources for news gets smaller every year. Not a good thing at all. Moyers & Co. did a episode about it recently.

I think, rather than just using Current's facilities to broadcast al Jazeera English, the plan is to offer programming specific to the US. I suppose that might include some of the current Current ;) programming.

John

Never did see Current TV, not even on someone else's tv set. Everybody dropping it now that AJ bought it sure stinks of racism of the worst degree.



Carl

Maybe it would more accurately be described as cultural bigotry, but I suppose that's mincing words.

Regards,

D-Ray

Very nice D and probably true to a large degree. Islam has taken the place of the USSR in many peoples' minds methinks.

Pete

Interesting insight indeed. We always needs us a boogeyman. :rolleyes:

Regards,

D-Ray

Al Jazeera Cable will be a nice balance for Fox News, well maybe a bit more impartial.

The Tea Party replaced the "Red Menace" in my mind as the boogeyman. Too bad they did some damage before they were marginalized...;)

A bit? You're too kind, Mac.;)

I've been watching it all afternoon. Right now they're doing a very good and very sympathetic documentary (they routinely do excellent ones) about a holocaust survivor visiting her old hometown and friends in Europe.

So much for "anti-Zionist bias".

John