Via reader Ian, who writes;
We, (the Canadian taxpayer) are funding and producing anti-bush, anti-war propoganda for the Democrat Party OUTSIDE the rules of US Campaign Finance Law.
CBC (May 4);
Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore is one of the new owners of 24-hour television channel Newsworld International.Gore is buying the channel with entrepreneur Joel Hyatt, a former finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee.
The sale price for the channel was not disclosed, although the Wall Street Journal reported last October that Gore's group was negotiating to buy it for about $70 million US.
Started by CBC in 1994, and most recently owned by Vivendi Universal, Newsworld International is available in about 17 million U.S. homes. The channel has had several owners since it was started. U.S. cable mogul Barry Diller bought it about three years ago and later sold out to Vivendi.
The article goes on to quote Gore (who will serve as board chairman and devote most of his time to the channel) as saying "This will not be a political network."
Yet the same report states programming on the channel "will continue to be provided by CBC".
So, which is it?
At least one can hope the CBC is actually making some of its own money off this? Right? (Yes, I am sure it is actually losing money)
In other news, J Cherniak was nice enough to point out a Young Liberals Petition trying to unseat Tories in NS!
http://www.petitiononline.com/nsaccord/petition.html
Well lets see if they listen to this provider of funding versus the largest provide rof funding, the taxpayer.
It will feedback into the CBC to provide appropriate content.....which is fine if it is bought and paid for by outside money....just not CBC money to produce the content for the Goreacle
"This will not be a political network."
Hmmm, let me guess, a 24/7 GW weather channel for his disciples maybe? That he is outsourcing the lefty swill to the CBC is no surprise.
17 million homes, out of that maybe a viewership of 250,000, if he's lucky.
I thought Gore had a cable network before and it flopped. I pity the suckers that fund this endeavor. But, taking money from lefties is easy. They can't be bankrupted fast enough.
CBCpravda in the US , how much of the nature of things and Dr.Bono Suzuki can they stand.
70 million.
Advocating for Kyoto must pay REALLY well, no?
Just when I think I saw it all, the world surprises me once again.
...Advocating for Kyoto must pay REALLY well, no?..
It's the carbon offset fraud, sorry - business, that pays obviously. He sold his own carbon offsets to himself, now he can advertise them to a broader audience than his family.
"This will not be a political network."
"programming on the channel "will continue to be provided by CBC".
I guess Al just doesn't see the joke here.
Sounds like a 'money laundering scheme' !!
Oh well, Big Al has to pay his heating bills some how.
His fetish died at the G8. The jig is up on the Kyoto Kult. Can't kram the karbon anymore.
Sooooo, he looks around for the latest/greatest dupe partner and .... and ... PRESTO !! The CBC. It was inevitable.
In the end, everything makes sense.
The joke may be on Al Gore. His co-ownership of CBC Newsworld International means that he's a bawss...or, as CBC staff more genteely prefers to call them, "brass."
I suspect, given CBC culture, that Mr. Gore's going to have his patience tested soon...
it is bad enough that I am forced at gunpoint to give half my income to support the plethora of trough wallowers, career consultants, professional disability claimants, welfare fraud artists, and the numerous groups who waste money like it's not their own. but that eco-pig(by my calculations, that pig has a bigger carbon footprint than my whole family) , the goracle????? please tell me it is not true
Where's the outrage at the 'hollowing out' of Canada?
A division of a Canadian company sold to a foreigner? why I declare, I'm getting the vapors...
What hypocrites.
"CBC(May 4)"
May 4, 2004....Scraping the bottom of the barrel, Kate? But then it don't take much to get your knuckle-draggers foaming at the mouth.
...woof woof, arrrrrrrrrg, ajdkalfjdfkl...drool
There now, did I do a good impression of the zombies in 28 Days Later?
the CBCpravda staffers have a history of biting the hand that feeds them, well at least if its a conservative hand.
maybe Al Gore can be shifted to care about lactating mothers and Rufus Wainwright and "for profit healthcare"
CBC will get my support when it stops taking itself so seriously and stops preachint to me....even the dam comedy shows are semons on PC thought and idealism....just to toxically sanctimonious to bother with...I watch HNIC and...that's all there is for anyone who is not a partisan indoctrinate.
The small narrow audience and narrow programming focus do not justify the budget this monster chews up...either make programming for a broad appeal to all Canadians or fold it up....but ferkrissake lose the preachy sanctimony in public affairs programming its more boring and single minded than cold war era east block TV.
Well, if it's privatized, the CBC will end up in private hands - someone's hands. I wonder what person, or group, would be the ideal new owners of the "Pink Elephant" network...
I'm having a tough time wading through the irony!
Since the article is three years old I thought I would look to see how the station has done: From Wiki:
Newsworld International
Some of CBC Newsworld's programming also aired on the now-defunct Newsworld International, an American cable news network co-owned by the CBC and the Power Corporation of Canada. However, CBC Newsworld also produced some programming for Newsworld International, and scheduled programming from other news networks, which did not air on the Canadian channel. Newsworld International was sold to Vivendi Universal in 2000, and sold again to Al Gore and Joel Hyatt in 2004. Newsworld continued to provide the network's programming until Gore and Hyatt launched their own network, Current TV, on August 1, 2005.
Newsworld also carried some news and lifestyle programming from BBC World.
It other words it is no longer on the air as Newsworld.
"it don't take much"
It "doesn't" take much. BTW, using both knuckle dragging and mouth foaming is cumbersome and defeats the clarifying purpose of a metaphor.
"BTW, using both knuckle dragging and mouth foaming is cumbersome..."
Only to someone who can't read without moving their lips, but I'll type slower next time.
Iowahawk says he is running for U.S. prez. Part of his platform is to turn Gore's mansion into a dragracing strip, as it is more ecologically friendly than its present use.
TEE-HEE, rod is funny.......
For the naysayers-
http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/schedule/dailySchedule.jsp?network=CBC%20Newsworld
"BTW, using both knuckle dragging and mouth foaming is cumbersome and defeats the clarifying purpose of a metaphor."
Ha! You talk like those cavemen on the teevee!
The real question:
Is Al Gore an artist or ape?
Ape.
naw ben he is an artist, CON ARTIST that is...
Autistic Ape maybe? Or in unPC terms Idiot Democrap?
Syncro
owned by CBC and PowerCorp. how incestuous can you get?
the biggest piece of leftist fawning since Trudeau did his homoerotic biography of Castro.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_mallick/20070608.html
CBCpravda "All Liberal, All the time"
idiot democracy is common among the knuckle draggers, I'd venture so far as to say it's rampant!
the question being..who are the knuckle draggers?
Just what we need 24 hours of listening to AL GORE blabbering his rediclous malarkey luckly there are many other different station to listen to other then MR HOT AIR
So the CBC and Al Gore are together at last. I can't wait to see what sort of emissions this match produces. Or offspring, for that matter.
Y'all better brace for the Goring y'all are going to get from Gaseous Al, his ol' eyeballs are a'bulgein'.
Gaseous Al knows little of Newsworld CBC, take away the politics and what's left?
The station was sold by CBC long before Gore bought it from Vivendi in 2004. I fail to see the story here and it does little to show a connection between Gore and CBC. The CBC story is 3 years old and the station is now a completley different format.
How many kilowatt hours will Hot Air Al be using while he is blabbering like he dose?
I'm confused. I used to work for Newsworld International. It was sold to Gore but he turned it into CurrentTV (or something) and the CBC was shown the door. That was two years ago!
I heard that AL GORE got lost in the woods and they had to send in the secret service to find him but it must have been pretty easy once their tracked down where all the animals were snoring
Politics Watch is running another great story on the CBC and the Conservative government's inaction on privatization.
CBC not yet for sale under Harper Tories
by Romeo St. Martin
PoliticsWatch.com
OTTAWA — "I'd like to put a 'For sale' sign on the CBC. We don't need it."
-Conservative MP Myron Thompson, Moose Jaw Times-Herald, June 18, 1994
After nearly 18 months with the Conservative government in power, Thompson's "For Sale" sign is not yet hanging on CBC facilities in communities across the country.
The complete story is at:
http://www.politicswatch.com/cbc-june12-2007.htm