Liberals Want Their Own Network to Counter ... Their Own Networks
Top liberals are not happy that the collective "big media" has decided to try to appeal to the entire U.S., rather than just the left - by having some conservatives on their programs, as well as the usual liberal suspects - and so they plan to launch a new television network to counter any views aired on broadcast and cable news that do not conform to their world view.
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According to Wired News, the group includes one of the producers of the Clinton documentary, "The Hunting of the President," and the author of a book about corporate influence on politics, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization and High-Finance Fraudsters."
Also yearning for a liberal TV network, Wired reports, are a veteran record producer, multimedia producers for the Democratic Party's website, leftist bloggers and the former head of the Dean Media Team Network, which produced online ads for the Howard Dean presidential campaign.
These far-out, Lefty media heavyweights aren't kidding: "That's what I'm doing right now," Micheal Stinson, who helped arrange the Boston meeting, SummitNet04, and runs the Take Back the Media website, told Wired News. "I'm herding all of the cats."
He said he wants the best progressive journalists and online publishers to join the New Media, the name he uses for the planned network.
Editorial standards at the network will be high, he promised.
"This is about the issues. This is for real," said Stinson who is meeting next week in New York with other New Media planners, including Greg Palast, a rabid left-wing reporter for BBC TV and The Guardian newspaper in London. The group will then begin to looking for investors.
The liberal activists cited the success of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" as an indication that the new network could make it.
But the planned New Media network will be at the mercy of the cable TV giants, an executive at Nielsen Media Research told Wired News.
"They will have to persuade companies like Cox Communications to carry them, and that won't happen if Cox doesn't like the product," he said. "I think Al Gore may have an easier time with the cable companies than they will."
If the organizers think ABC, CBS, CNN et al are too conservative, you have to wonder just how far out left their proposed new network will be should it ever get off the ground
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