Current TV: Not a Political Mouthpiece, Says Gore

From BBC News:

Former US Vice-President Al Gore is launching a new TV channel offering bite-sized entertainment and current affairs aimed at young people. The US cable channel Current (http://www.current.tv) features 15-second to five-minute "pods" on subjects from fashion to finance plus Google's search headlines. It also encourages its 18-34 audience to make their own TV packages. ...The San Francisco-based channel launches on Monday and is available to 19 million subscription viewers.

...Mr Gore said: "We are about empowering this generation of young people in their 20s to engage in a dialogue of democracy and to tell their stories about what's going in their lives in the dominant media of our time."

...Current would not be a political mouthpiece, he added. "We have no intention of being a Democratic channel, a liberal channel, or a TV version of Air America," he said, referring to the liberal radio network. Its "pod" segments, styled on an iPod digital music player's ability to play a wide variety of styles, wil cover topics such as technology, music, parenting and career advice.