New Liberal Media Mogul on the Block: Al Gore

So, Al Gore has decided to join the ranks of the dysfunctional media moguls (Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, Michael Eisner, whoever else....) and announced that he's launching his own TV network called "Current".

According to Reuters, Gore had this to say:

"We are about empowering this generation of young people in their 20s, the 18-34 population, 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."

Uh-huh.

I'm not quite sure what to make of that comment. This comes from the same guy who played tonsil hockey with Tipper on TV (and gave us all the heebie-jeebies):

Anyhow, the YodaBeesh prediction is that this will suffer the same rapid rise and fall of such great ideas as The Magic Johnson Show, NBCi, CopRock, and The Oxygen Network. I will make sure to document "Current" every single fckuing step of the way!

Message to Al: Dude, don't try to play all hip and connect with the young cynical audience of this generation. If you do a talk show with young adults, you'll have definitely reached a new low. Kids are so ADD these days that you'll be lucky if they are able to make it to channel 551 (or whatever lucky channel you are assigned by DirecTV and Cox). Oh, and leveraging the "Google" name really may not help you. I don't see what Google has to do with "democracy" and "teen issues". Please don't drag Google down with you. I'd like to see their stock continue to climb. Otherwise, best of success to you!