THE REPORT comes from the Hollywood Reporter: Keith Olbermann has resolved the $50 million legal dispute with Current TV over his firing from the network, a well-placed source tells The Hollywood Reporter. A settlement is said to have been reached during a private mediation session in San Francisco on Tuesday. Terms of the deal will [...]
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News Desk: Al Jazeera Buys Al Gore’s Current TV
AL GORE has finally succeeded with Current TV by selling it, for a rumored very healthy profit. Al Jazeera on Wednesday announced a deal to take over Current TV, the low-rated cable channel that was founded by Al Gore, a former vice president, and his business partners seven years ago. Al Jazeera plans to shut [...]
Al Gore to Anchor Convention Coverage for Current TV
AL GORE will not be going to Charlotte, or Tampa for that matter, but he will be covering both conventions from New York, along with Jennifer Granholm, Eliot Spitzer, as well as Cenk Uygur, and Gavin Newsom. Vice President Al Gore will be leading Current TV’s coverage of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Coverage [...]
Jennifer Granholm: Sitting the Election Out Will Make You an ‘Accomplice’ in Electing Pres. Romney
“Last night I interviewed Jill Stein the presidential candidate for the Green Party on this show. And I confess right now, I should have asked her to just get out of the race.” – Jennifer Granholm, “The War Room” [Current TV] THE ARGUMENT Jennifer Granholm makes above is a tactic that no longer fits the [...]
Chris Licht, Al Gore’s on Line One
Al Gore’s Current TV has bigger problems to deal with than a potential lawsuit from fired news anchor Keith Olbermann – namely not getting kicked off Time Warner Cable for low ratings. – Exclusive: Low ratings could end cable deal for Gore’s Current TV, by Peter Lauria IT‘s been a very bad week for Al [...]
Keith to Dave: ‘I screwed up’
“Do they know what they’re doing over there?” – Dave Letterman The biggest casualty last night was Current TV. Olbermann said he had no idea if “Countdown” had ever aired, because he couldn’t find Current on his dial. Dave acted positively stumped on where to find it and this routine went on throughout the interview. [...]
Progressive Notes: Women’s Rights Progressive Trevor Thomas Versus Millionaire Anti-Choice Establishment Democrat
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. There is a very important Democratic primary setting up in Michigan. It is congressional District 3, a working class district which at one time was represented by Jerry Ford. In the 2010 Tea Party wave a real hardcore conservative won, Mr. Amash. The guy is vulnerable [...]
Sacrificing Eliot
This is a morality tale. It’s also about the character of Democrats and the weakness most politicians on the Left show in the face of a fight. It’s something you never see from Republicans, even when they’re wrong, caught lying, or found to have done something illegal, even criminal. Eliot Spitzer goes after Wall Street, [...]
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