Former Vice President Al Gore is launching a new San Francisco-based cable television network. Realizing that nothing says young, hip, and cutting edge like inventor of the Internet Al Gore, the network, dubbed "Current" and debuting August 2005, will target the 18-34 demo. Current's news programming will tap into Google Zeitgeist search engine data to identify hot topics. UPI via Washington Times; Vote on the net's chances of success here.
Michelle Malkin has coverage, as well as prior commentary on Google's lop-sided campaign contributions to Democrats and its apparent liberal bias in choice of Google News sources. Additional blogosphere posts on -- and cumulative anecdotal evidence of -- Google's alleged biases can be found at little green footballs (a/k/a LGF), Riehl World View, Jeff the Baptist, Les Jones, Conservative Outpost, GOP Bloggers, The Jawa Report, Indy Media Watch, Conservative Life, Hennessy’s View, JackLewis.Net, Myopic Zeal, Bookworm Room, Generation Why?, The Wayne Review, Desert Rat Ramblings, Libertarian Man of Mystery, Hundred Percenter, Protein Wisdom Thunder and Roses, Say Uncle, Wuzzadem, Gus Van Horn, Think Sink, Lifelike Pundits, Blogs for Bush, and Roger L. Simon.
Newsmax notes that, although "Al Gore swears his new network won't be a bastion of liberal programming... his big financial backers are all liberal, including one of the backers to the ultra-liberal Air America radio network."
During the 2004 election cycle, Google [GOOG]'s employees made 99% of their contributions to Democrats, according to opensecrets.org data, which is obtained from government sources. Google's campaign contributions are the most one-sided of any of the top 20 computer/Internet companies. The tech industry overall favored Dems by 53%.
(Yes, for the record, this blog is, at least for the time-being, "powered" by Blogger, which is both owned by Google and free. Yahoo's blog service, Yahoo 360° launches soon, and Microsoft's, MSN Spaces is in its infancy. Both are also free.)
[Updated 4/9/05, 4/14/05, 4/16/05]
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