Al Gore defends Current TV sale to Al Jazeera
The Qatar-based Al Jazeera earlier this month struck a deal to buy Current TV for $500 million
Nashville (Tennessee): Former US vice-president Al Gore is defending the sale of his television channel to Al Jazeera, saying the news organization is hard-hitting, especially on climate issues, which is his passion.
The Qatar-based Al Jazeera earlier this month struck a deal to buy Current TV for $500 million.
Gore told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he had no reservations about selling the cable news network to Al Jazeera.
He says he considers Current TV to have been a success in that it won awards and was profitable each year. Gore in his latest book titled, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, makes only a fleeting reference to Al Jazeera.
He calls it a “feisty and relatively independent" satellite network. He also takes aim in the book at corporate media for “suffocating the free flow of ideas".
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