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| A snarky review of Al Gore's Network |
| 2005-08-05 |
| From SLATE who are usually being Snarky vs. Bush Invasion of the Pod People Current TV is youth culture as imagined by Al Gore. By Dana Stevens Posted Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2005, at 1:39 PM a sample below ... As each pod plays, the lower left-hand corner of the screen displays a progress bar that fills up as the clip approaches its end. I guess the point is to keep viewers watching till the end of the pod, figuring, what the hell? I can afford to waste two-and-a-half more minutes on this. Then again, progress bars on a computer screen tend to be associated with some unpleasant or tedious task—waiting for a download to end, for example, so you can get to the good stuff of actually listening to the song or using the software. It's hard to get lost in the content of a given story when you're constantly glancing down to see how much longer it has to go... |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #6 More meat and sanity in the 90s. This is failed MTV BS. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-08-05 18:52 |
| #5 I read another review that suggested Howlin' Al's new TV show was permantly stuck in the 90's. I haven't seen it myself but I'll take his word for it. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2005-08-05 17:52 |
| #4 Claims he got 10 million viewers, yeah whatever. This is doomed to failure, just like his campaign was. EP |
| Posted by: ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding 2005-08-05 17:47 |
| #3 I liked ITV and German TV on the old ITN network. Now Gore fired everybody, changed the name and put on absolute garbage. What I don't get is why he needed to buy an existing successful network if he was just going to gut it? What did he get for 1 billion? An Uplink? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-08-05 14:14 |
| #2 Oooooooooooooooooh...shiny! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-08-05 13:50 |
| #1 oooh, ouch. and I thought this was sort of al in a nutshell...specializing in long-form documentaries gradually ceded its place to a more market-driven, youth-oriented undertaking, spearheaded by former executives from CNN, Teen People, and Rupert Murdoch's Sky Network. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-08-05 13:34 |