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Al Gore Current TV Scam Exposed

Saturday, January 5, 2013 13:11
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Al Gore Current TV Scam Exposed - YouTube

Published on Jan 5, 2013
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The fact that Al Jazeera is state run is only one part of a larger scandal. This report breaks down how master con man Al Gore is scamming consumers and more.

Al Gore Current TV Scam Exposed | Alternative

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Saturday, January 5, 2013 15:10
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Frm VP Al Gore Got The Sale In Before The End Of 2012!

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Glenn Beck’s Blaze Media approached the struggling cable news network last year, the Wall Street Journal reports, but was rebuffed because “the legacy of who the network goes to is important to us and we are sensitive to networks not aligned with our point of view.”

Instead, Gore went with the Emir of Qatar-funded Arab news channel Al-Jazeera.



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Al Gore sells Current TV to Al-Jazeera, nets reported $100 million

Former Vice President Al Gore has made himself a much, much richer man by selling his little watched cable channel Current TV to the Emir of Qatar-funded Arab news channel Al-Jazeera.

Gore netted $100 million with his 20 percent stake in the network when it was sold for a reported $500 million on Wednesday.

Al-Jazeera plans to euthanize the struggling, seven-year-old Current TV and turn it into Al-Jazeera America by adding five to 10 new U.S. bureaus beyond the five it has now. More than half of its content will be U.S. news, and the network will have its headquarters in New York, according to a rep.

Read more: Report: Glenn Beck tried to buy Current TV, Al Gore went with Al-Jazeera | Fox News
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The Real Problem With Al Gore's $100 Million Payday From Selling Current To Al Jazeera


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All sorts of people are hurling all sorts of criticisms at former Vice President Al Gore over the $500 million sale of his Current TV network to Al Jazeera. Gore ishelping a foreign government spread propaganda in the U.S.! He’s doing business with a network that’s sympathetic to terrorists! He’s taking oil money! He’s trying to avoid paying taxes!

These accusations range from borderline silly to flat-out wrong. The real problem here is that Gore, in pocketing an estimated $100 million from the sale, provides a textbook reminder of the conflicts of interest that arise when politicians hopscotch between high office and the private sector.

For a channel available in 60 million households, Current has a tiny audience, a fact reflected in the paltriness of its advertising revenues (less than $20 million annually, according to SNL Kagan).
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Almost all of its value, therefore, was tied up in its reach. That distribution to 60 million homes was what underlay Al Jazeera’s willingness to spend a half billion dollars. (This even though some 9 million homes fell out of the deal after Time Warner Cable, which controlled them, balked at carrying a new Al Jazeera channel.)

Distribution is dear because it’s hard to build. So how did Current succeed in building so much so fast? Through “a combination of personal lobbying and arm-twisting of industry giants” by Gore himself, according to Brian Stelter of The New York Times. Gore “leaned on” Rupert Murdoch, then in control of DirecTV, and other operators of cable and satellite systems, not only to carry Current but to pay it a carriage fee out of proportion to its actual viewership.

If Murdoch et al didn’t push back too hard, it’s because they knew they could simply pass the carriage fee along to their subscribers. That’s been standard operating procedure for pay TV operators since 1999, when a provision of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 removed price controls that had previously governed the rates they could change for expanded basic services.

The results have been dramatic. According to theFCC, between 1995 and 2010, the average cost of expanded basic services rose from $22.35 to $54.44. That’s a 6.1% compound average annual increase, versus 2.5% for inflation over that period.

That’s a lot of extra money flowing into the coffers of pay TV operators. And whom do they have to thank for it? Among others, Al Gore, who, at the ceremony marking the signing of the bill into law, “stressed how public interest was central to the telecommunications revolution,” according to Salon.

This is exactly the kind of conflict of interest Congress was hoping to prevent when, in 1958, it passed the Former Presidents Act, which established a pension in order to ensure that no ex-Commander in Chief would be tempted to “demean the office he has held or capitalize upon it in any way deemed improper.” Gore, of course, was vice president, not president, but the principle holds.

There’s no conspiracy here, no dark secret. All of this has unfolded in plain sight over a period of years. But when it looked like Gore was truly in it to build a durable, independent, public-minded news institution, it was hard to be too critical of him for leveraging the prestige and connections of the office he once held to achieve that aim. Now that he’s decided the mission is worth less than the windfall to be made from abandoning it, the whole thing takes on a somewhat different tint, doesn’t it?

The Real Problem With Al Gore's $100 Million Payday From Selling Current To Al Jazeera - Forbes

CURRENT TV STAFFERS NOT HAPPY ABOUT BEING SOLD TO AL JAZEERA



by WARNER TODD HUSTON
8 Jan 2013
Al Gore may have gotten a multi-million dollar payday from his new friends at Al Jazeera, but his Current TV employees don't seem very excited about being sold to the Qatar-based network.

Current TV employees were called to an early staff meeting in San Francisco and via teleconference at the New York and Los Angeles offices in order to be introduced to their new Al Jazeera bosses.

Ehab Al Shihabi, executive director of Al Jazeera's international operations, and Muftah Al Suwaidan, general manager of the London bureau, were in attendance; so was Al Gore's partner, Joel Hyatt. But Al Gore, Current TV's global warming-pushing star, was nowhere to be seen.

"Of course Al didn’t show up," one staffer grumbled. "He has no credibility."

Gore has been pushing his global warming snake oil for years now and has always done so in the offices of Current TV. But staffers feel Gore is "nothing but a bulls***ter" for having sold his stake in the cable network to some of the biggest oil producers in the world.

Some staffers are reported as having been disgusted by Gore's insistence that the network play up stories about how great Obama's tax hikes were going to be, yet Gore himself made sure to get his monumental payday before all those tax increases went into effect.

Already two of the flailing network's putative "stars" have announced they are leaving their shows. Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm was the first to announce she was leaving. This week it was Eliot Spitzer's turn to announce his departure.

Al Jazeera's top men say that they'll be taking over programming in April. The plan will be to "inform, inspire and entertain."
Current TV Staffers Not Happy About Being Sold to Al Jazeera