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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (473254)	10/8/2003 8:55:26 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Well if anyone had not figured out already that Al Gore is kinda stupid. Read on... Brit Hume: Gore Network Helps Fox Not satisfied with liberal domination of CBS, NBC, ABC and PBS, Al Gore (remember him?) is trying to buy a cable news network to counter the influence of Fox News. And that's O.K. with Fox's Brit Hume. In fact, he thinks a Gore network can only help Fox. The Fox anchor, far and away the most thoughtful and trusted journalist in TV today, told the New York Observer he wonders if Gore really knows what he's getting into. "It’s a little unclear what he’s trying to do if he wants to start a kind of talk channel that he believes would counterprogram Fox," said Mr. Hume. "He clearly doesn’t know what we’re really doing. If he’s trying to start a serious news organization with worldwide reach, then he immediately becomes a competitor, in my view, to CNN and MSNBC, so he does us good. It doesn’t seem like it would affect us very much." Right, another liberal network competes with, well, the other liberal networks. Good thinking Al. Do it! Hume told the Observer he wondered if Mr. Gore had really considered the basics—like cameras and mobile trucks. Watching a live feed of the California recall on Fox, Mr. Hume said, "If you were the Al Gore News Channel, you’re going to want that signal, too. You’re going to have to hire your own truck, get your own equipment—I wonder if they’ve even thought about those things." According to the Observer, the former Clinton vice president is trying to complete a deal to buy Universal-owned digital news channel called Newsworld International which, the publication noted would be "a transaction that could herald Mr. Gore’s official transformation from historical footnote to media player with the power to get in the game that he says has lately upset him so." "He thinks the country is disserved by the absence of truth in news, by the absence of honesty in public-official presentation, by the apparently infinite cynicism of those who currently hold high office," said Reed Hundt, the former chairman of the F.C.C. Among the things Hume said Gore may not have been thinking about is money. "It is estimated that there were losses amounting to a billion dollars before Fox News turned a profit," Hume said. "We’re talking about a grand-scale investment. If you start thinking what it could cost to start from complete scratch—with nothing to support you—we’re talking about a truly staggering sum of money, and the losses would have to be eaten along the way." And, Hume added, it’s not clear that any amount of money will help Mr. Gore if his view of Fox News is so fundamentally flawed. newsmax.com