Gore Gets his Groove Back

Vice President Al Gore has set out to reinvent the mainstream media. His weapon of choice: Current, the new political television station for people age 18-34 he purchased and recently launched.

If he’s lucky, maybe he’s tapped into what young people are looking for in a political news source. He's got the best concept strategists that money can buy. In spite of Current’s grassrootsy image, the startup cable station boasts an impressive budget. But it’ll have to grab the attention of some members of the current MTV crowd in order to be successful.

Here’s what all you channel surfers out there can expect to find on Current (from The Nation Magazine):

Current screened three video clips as evidence of what the network plans to offer: the first a high-speed montage, created by a team of producers, freelancers and the audience itself, touching on everything from poppy fields in Morocco to hacking into Paris Hilton's cell phone; the second, a twice-hourly news update spotlighting the top ten queries on Google for any given subject; and the third, winner of a $10,000 submission prize, a satire of political campaign ads that came across as an amateurish stab at The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.

Sound like what you’ve been missing? Does the channel have a chance?

--Poste by Nicole Brown