Al Gore Thinks TV Networks Are Destroying Civic Involvement in the U.S.

Despite running acable channel of his own , Al Gore thinks that TV networks at large wield too much power as hall porter of news and areruining civic involvementin the U.S.

In an article for Rolling Stone on the current land of media , Gore hold nothing back in assessing the TV news world :

Unlike access to the “ public square ” of early America , approach to boob tube need large amounts of money . Thomas Paine could walk out of his front threshold in Philadelphia and find a dozen competing , low - cost print shops within blocks of his home . Today , if he travel to the nearest TV station , or to the headquarters of nearby Comcast – the dominant tv provider in America – and tried to deliver his new ideas to the American multitude , he would be laughed off the premises . The public square that used to be a commonality has been refeudalized , and the gatekeepers charge big rents for the privilege of communicating to the American people over the only medium that really affect their thinking . “ Citizens ” are now denote to more ordinarily as “ consumer ” or “ the audience . ”

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He also recognize the net as a possible cure to what ails our political soulfulness , but says we ’re a long elbow room away from the days where genuine journalism is economically workable on the web . [ Rolling StoneviaBrian Stelter ]

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