Former Vice President Al Gore said Thursday that the Internet is helping to restore balance to democracy.
“One of the reasons why American democracy is going through a very difficult time right now is that wealth distorts the way we make decisions,” Gore said in San Francisco during Connect 2016, a technology conference sponsored by China’s Cheetah Mobile.
That was particularly true when TV broadcasters reigned, but now the TV “information ecosystem” is declining, said Gore, who sold his cable channel Current TV in 2013 for $500 million to Al Jazeera America. That news network just announced it will shut down April 30.
“The Internet is now restoring an information ecosystem in which individuals can have an impact,” Gore said. “Individual bloggers can now bring light to facts and information that others can read and understand. And this has a political impact.”
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Al Gore endorses citizen journalism
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Fing A it exposed $tock$ to being the $ellout of the century.
ReplyDeleteBlogs are good. $tock$ is not!
Still waiting for "facts and information" to back this blog's assertion that Steven Richard Leacock was drinking at Union before leading police on a chase.
ReplyDeleteHow long shall we wait for that arraignment, EU?
http://encinitasundercover.blogspot.com/2015/06/downtown-vibrancy-update.html?showComment=1433794546914#c4703744715762595090
The Leacock Truther strikes again!
DeleteIf you want to use the word "journalism" in the title alluding to your work here, then you should expect to be held to basic standards.
DeleteWhen is that arraignment, anyway?
Gotta love the internet inventor (Al Gorerhythm).
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRQS5RhrwLA
The union sucks.
ReplyDeleteA bunch of want to be 50-year-olds trying to Chase skirt ......
So weird and boring
You mean the AL Gore that uses 10 times the electricity per sq ft of house that I use and yet he has the audacity to tell me to stop my carbon footprint and that I'm killing the earth while he flies around in his private jet... That Al Gore???
ReplyDeleteHe's an idiot.
Say what you will about Gore, but he's right. Mainstream news is corrupted, owned by corporate interests, and spreads propaganda on behalf of the government without prompting. Blogs and individual journalism will save this world, but only after the institutions destroy it.
ReplyDelete10:25. Mattached Drudge said the Internet provided the citizens a chance to participate as never before in 1997. He then started a site, helped by Andrew Breitbart named www.thedrudgereport.com. Drudge is the most viewed daily website on the planet.
DeleteGore sounds like someone who has been detached from the real world for 19 years.
10:25 Amen. +1
Delete11:29 Drudge is fine. Glenn Greenwald is better.
Alert Alert. Encinitas Library renamer is racist supporter of apartheid Israel and just paid to have a library built in his name in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories thus further expanding the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians off their own land.
ReplyDeleteSee the You Tube video https://youtu.be/bYJZS0n6LVk titled
The Steven & Patricia Mizel Library- dedication
*RED ALERT* ** Citizen Journalism**The takeover of Encinitas by juice and not orange juice. Encinitas Library renamer is a HUGE supporter of racist and apartheid Israel and just paid to have a library built in his name in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories thus further expanding the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians off their own land. See the You Tube video titled 'The Steven & Patricia Mizel Library- dedication' or plug this in: https://youtu.be/bYJZS0n6LVk
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