Remember This Guy?
I don’t know if anyone noticed that I failed to post yesterday, or if anyone cares. Should there happen to be a die-hard fan looking to hold my feet to the fire about my promise to post for two weeks straight, I had an excuse. Some friends from the old country (Ottawa, Ohio) were in Beavercreek to hang out like old times. We saw Wedding Crashers in its entirety at the theater, without an interruption for a fire alarm. It’s always nice to get the old gang together, even though our war with the south-side rival gang ended last year. It’s a shame because I had finally gotten into my cap-bustin’ prime and I was rounding into form. By the end of this quest, I will have posted fourteen total entries. I guess I will have to post two on one day, but I have also been working on some special projects that I hope you will enjoy. Anyways, I just wanted to use this forum to discuss my reaction to this article that I found at Netscape.com. Does everyone remember Al Gore? No? Well, he ran for president way back in the year 2000, trying to capitalize on the momentum he had gained following the success of his invention: the internet. After failing in his bid for the presidency, Gore entered a bit of a funk and grew a beard that no one deemed acceptable. Now, he’s back in the news because he is preparing for the launch of a new television network that he co-founded called Current. The thing that caught my attention was that the staff of reporters and producers at the new network includes Gotham Chopra and Laura Ling, of Channel One News and MTV….well, I don’t want to call it fame, but they worked there. I don’t know if anyone else had to endure Channel One News during their high school years, but at my school it was about as popular as mandatory drug testing. I can only wonder what happened to the other, less fortunate “journalists” of Channel One. Are they working at Burger King? Or did they thrive in the business world, and advance to the ranks of a TGI Friday’s or an Olive Garden maybe? Wherever they are, I hope they realize now just what they put students through. If I’m ever employed at a job that resembles Channel One News, I hope someone will have the courage to inform me and tell me to stop. I would do it for you.
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my image of al gore is mainly from other medias that made fun of him, such as bill clinton being dressed as dr frankenstein, beconing his disfigured sidekick ‘algore’; or the ever popular SNL skit with “the lockbox”. perhaps this new network might actually work because da keeds can get news that isnt based on jokes like SNL or john stewart. not that i dont love john stewart, but its hardly a respectable way to inform oneself.
i missed the choprah boat for channel 1 in high school (granted i think i only had about 1 year total that i had study hall with tvs in it- laaame), but i do remember lisa ling! wasnt she on the view for a while, too? she just cant make up her freakin mind where to work!
ok, its august 1st now. i’ll check it out……. well unless it interferes with my new ‘hogan knows best’ obsession.
lovely post. thanks for starting my day the jaymz way.
good old Channel One. Anderson Cooper was on there too, now he is at CNN! and Lisa Ling is pretty popular witht the View and dateline I believe.
Yeah, I remember watching that news show.
Well Jim, I doubted you on the existence of a Laura Ling, as I grew up watching Lisa and did not know she had a sibling following in her footsteps. (There’s some sort of parallel for us in that regard.) On further research I found out that Laura was indeed an anchor for Channel One, just like her older sister. They took her down from the list on their site already though, and she isn’t in the wikipedia entry either. Oh, and for anyone wondering about the other Channel One reporters that wikipedia entry has information on about 7 of them. How about you do some googling and fill in the sections on the rest of the anchors Jim?