Wired - Just as the Dems this week surprised pundits with a show of Republican-style unity, those to the left of the party (and to the left of Al Gore, who is starting his own TV network next year), insist they can get their act together, too.
"That's what I'm doing right now," said Micheal Stinson, who helped arrange the Boston meeting, SummitNet04, and who runs the Take Back the Media website. "I'm herding all of the cats."
Stinson said he wants the best progressive journalists and online publishers to join the New Media, the name he uses for the planned network. Editorial standards at the network will be high, he said.
"This is about the issues. This is for real," said Stinson.
Stinson is meeting next week in New York with other New Media planners, including Greg Palast, a reporter for BBC TV and The Guardian newspaper in London. There, the group will begin reaching out to investors.
CNN is conservative? I don't think so.
I've got split feelings about this. On one hand I'd like it if media outlets put their biases on their sleeves. Why not let the public know what perspective their news is being reported from?
On the other hand I think its rather childish for the liberals to decide that if the news media aren't going to say what they want them to say they'll just start their own media. Of course, the NRA had done the same thing on radio so its not like its a phenomena strictly limited to liberals.
What I'd like to see is a newspaper or news channel the hires reporters based on their political orientation. For each right-leaning reporter let them hire one left-leaning reporter. Then, when big news events occur, send out a reporter from each side. Could it get any more balanced then that?