by Judi Mcleod
May 6, 2004
Former U.S. Vice-President al Gore is working at being the Ted Turner of Canada.
How else to explain his admitted use of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in running his 24-hour NewsWorld International (NWI) cable television network?
as the latest media mogul, Gore who launched his cable network with lawsuit supremo Joel Hyatt on May 5, is outsourcing to what some Canadians call "The Communist Broadcasting Corporation".
The Toronto Maple Leafs may have lost out on the Stanley Cup, but socialist activists Judy Rebick and Maude Barlow are ready to dance it up on the streets.
Gore and Hyatt picked up NWI from Vivendi Universal Entertainment for an undisclosed amount of money.
NWI is a round-the-clock channel that airs global news produced by the unpopular-in-its-own-country CBC. Under Gore’s chairmanship, CBC continues to supply the programming.
The Gore television network is not only Canada’s problem. NWI is distributed to about 17 million subscribers across the U.S. through DirecTV, Time Warner digital cable, comcast and other cable operators.
No word yet whether Gore has displaced failed Toronto mayoral candidate John Tory as the media’s official "cable guy".
NWI’s target audience is 18 to 34, a group that at its low end allows Gore and Company to get them coming out, or before any locked-in political opinions can be formed.
Gore should find more luck swaying public opinion in Canuckistan than he did on his Liberal radio station. Canada’s national newsmagazine, MacLeans announced in a recent cover story that only 15 percent of Canadians would cast a ballot for George W. Bush if they had the opportunity to do so. More fertile Gore ground must be available in the 38 percent of Canadians surveyed who felt that George W. Bush was a greater threat to world peace than Saddam Hussein.
But at the moment of his launch, Gore was waxing entrepreneurial: "We are launching an exciting television network for young men and women who want to know more about their world and who enjoy real-life (emphasis ours) stories created with, by and from their own generation."
This is a "real-life" story, al Gore style.
Gore has given sermons at New York City’s St. John the Divine Cathedral, during St. Francis of assisi ceremonies, on Oct. 6.
The annual blessing of animals takes place when camels and elephants on their way to the altar could stampede congregants, who like all sermon-bored congregants happen to slip off into the land of nod.
In one sermon, Gore called on congregants to recognize that "God is not separate from the earth."
The theme of his sermon led some to wonder what kind of tobacco the former vice president was smoking…"I saw children lying in the laps of large dogs and a boy bringing his stuffed animals to be blessed. I saw the not-yet famous elephant and camel march up the aisle; a lawyer who scoops the poop and enjoys being clown-for-a-day; a priest who finds himself covered with wiggling ferrets; a man and a woman who meet when their leashes became enmeshed; a volunteer gardener with a bowl of compost and worms."
St. John’s, official church of the United Nations, advocates the religion of Gaia, embraced by Gore.
Gore denies that his new cable network will be a political one: "We want to empower this dynamic generation (the 18 to 34-year-olds) with a network dedicated to them that has integrity and a commitment to excellence."
The Gore network, he said, was not going to be a Liberal network, a Democrat network or a political network.
It was not, he said, even going to be an american network.
Problem is CBC, which will continue to provide news for NWI already is Liberal. Kept afloat by the Canadian government with taxpayers’ money, a constant Internet plethora of pulse polls continue to find that CBC has a decidedly Liberal bias.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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