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American Prospect, The, August, 2005 by Zureick, Alyson
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AL GORE MAY NOT HAVE invented the Internet, but this August he and entrepreneur Joel Hyatt are taking the technology to the next level with the launch of Current, a new youth-focused, Internet-inspired cable channel. Current, which will be broadcast into about 20 million homes beginning August 1, aims to be MTV and Google rolled into one, a sort of televised blogosphere whose goal is to "democratize" broadcast media.
Gone are the 30- to 60-minute features that dominate network television. Instead, they've been replaced with 1- to 5-minute "pods," short ...
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