{"id":485,"date":"2004-05-06T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2004-05-06T13:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=485"},"modified":"2004-05-06T09:37:16","modified_gmt":"2004-05-06T13:37:16","slug":"gore-and-investors-buy-cable-news-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"Gore and Investors Buy Cable News Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/05\/national\/05GORE.html?ei=5059&#038;en=61a2b3526ebc97d8&#038;ex=1084420800&#038;partner=AOL&#038;pagewanted=print&#038;position=\">May 5, 2004<\/a><br \/>\nBy KEN BELSON<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NEW ORLEANS, May 4 ? Former Vice President Al Gore and a group of investors announced Tuesday that they bought Newsworld International, a 24-hour cable news channel, from Vivendi Universal Entertainment. They said they would turn it into a news channel intended for young adults.<\/p>\n<p>The move, announced at the cable industry&#8217;s annual convention here, comes amid rapid growth in television programs designed for ever-narrower political, social and demographic groups. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gore said the programming would not carry a heavy political message but would be influenced by what younger viewers wanted to watch. He said the intent was to provide an alternative to networks owned by large corporations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It <i>was<\/i> an alternative to networks owned by large corporations.  I&#8217;d given up on news programmes until I discovered this one and its international perspectives, something that is sorely missing in today&#8217;s seen-through-the-eyes-of-America-only media.  Now I suppose the search is back on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 5, 2004 By KEN BELSON NEW ORLEANS, May 4 ? Former Vice President Al Gore and a group of investors announced Tuesday that they bought Newsworld International, a 24-hour cable news channel, from Vivendi Universal Entertainment. They said they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=485\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-7P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}