Comments on: Not so Current

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:50:45 +0000

Some of Current’s content is extremely relevant! have you seent he piece on torture? A process called waterboarding was shown and it was dreadful! I know of no other palce that has shown such footage. Let alone taht it was the journalist who willingly underwent the procedure.

Also the opinion pieces form actaul soldiers in Iraq are incredibly compelling. As are the videos made from the Gulf Coast community. I agree that the Yahoo model has not been completely successful but give it time. The network is new as is the partnership. Their should be sight channels on yahoo by the end of the year and with maeline Smithburg at the helm of the yahoo content I beleive we wills ee our share of political acountability she made poipular ont he Daily Show.

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Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:05:59 +0000

[...] Jeff Jarvis writes about Current, and thrases them well. I visited and was not impressed. Like Jeff says, looks like bad local TV news stories. [...]

By: Mike G

Mike G — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:54:58 +0000

I heard Current is going to be carried on Compuserve next.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:07:29 +0000

Actually - the economics are the most interesting (and until this post unreported) part of this story. The decision to buy the cable network Newsworld International for a reported 70 million dollars generated an income stream of affilate fees. That was the story they told investors, and they made the decision not to be an open sources, from the ground up media company. To be fair, that may have not been possible in any case. Current is trying to be part of the new user-generated media movement - but Jeff right when he call out the net for being centralized, and setting rules for participation that are far from open-source. For me the wierdest thing is all the TV packaging (bumpers, hosts, graphics, etc) which are crazy-outt-of-place on Yahoo. It’s more like a promo for the cable net than a service… but maybe that will change… but at some point Current will have to bite the hand that feeds them and shift focus from cable to the web…

By: Mark Tapscott

Mark Tapscott — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:58:22 +0000

Why the surprise that Current is a centralized, controlling monolith? It’s the same Big Government/Big Business model Gore has pushed for his entire career.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:11:37 +0000

Absolutely.

By: David Mastio

David Mastio — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:57:09 +0000

When it comes to Iraq, Jeff is just some guy with an opinion. When it comes to the Internet, he’s a little bit more qualified don’t you think?

By: Ethan

Ethan — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:05:23 +0000

For Jeff Jarvis to evaluate whether Al Gore is “current” as a politician is simply beyond absurdity. Al Gore was right on one of the defining political debates of our time: namely, the War in Iraq. Jeff Jarvis was wrong. And since then, millions of Americans have come around to Gore’s position, while rejecting Jarvis’s, Jarvis still has the nerve to say Al isn’t “current.” Jarvis, meanwhile, doesn’t speak about the issue at all anymore–like a true moral coward, not only is he incapable of apologizing, he is incapable of discussion.

For shame.