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Gore Goes Prime Time?
First Monica, now Al.
Just months after the spawn of the Monica Lewinsky-helmed reality dating series Mr. Personality comes word that that other Bill Clinton cohort is considering a boob-tube bid.
Time magazine's online edition reports that former Vice President Al Gore is contemplating the creation of a new cable television network.
Apparently, the onetime presidential contender and self-described inventor of the Internet is in "embryonic" talks with Steve Rosenbaum, head of the New York-based documentary producers Camera Planet, for a network that expresses "progressive" views. Gore has reportedly begun meeting with potential investors, as well.
Reps for the Democratic politico are not offering comment on the news, but Rosenbaum told the Associated Press that "the only thing I'm confident of is that it will look like nothing you've ever seen on television, which is part of the excitement of it."
The reason behind the move is twofold: One, Gore has been a longtime fan of the viewer-centered format of "Unfiltered," a Camera Planet show featured on MTV that turned its viewers into documentarians by giving them cameras and air time, and he wanted to bring the idea to a wider audience. Two, talk radio and TV is flooded with conservative talking heads, and the Democratic party is in dire need of some media face time. Time said the Gore-led network will feature "progressive" viewpoints (read: the anti-Rush Limbaugh).
In an interview last year with the New York Observer, Gore blasted the media of being "kind of weird these days on politics, and there are some major institutional voices that are, truthfully speaking, part and parcel of the Republican Party.""There's a bunch of them, and some of them are financed by wealthy ultra-conservative billionaires who make political deals with Republican administrations and the rest of the media," Gore said at the time.
Though many online conservatives are already scoffing at the idea ("Al Bore All the Time," reads one Yahoo message board post in response to the news), many liberals are thrilled with the idea.
Several pointed out the contentious election results of 2000, when Gore lost to George Bush after major voting snafus in Florida but did score more popular votes than the current Republican President.
Regardless of popular opinion, Gore won't come to the table totally unprepared--before his days in the White House and Congress, he did hold down a job as a newspaper reporter in Vietnam and for the Nashville Tennessean.
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