LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Vice President Al Gore is suing Al Jazeera America, saying the news network is withholding tens of millions of dollars that it owes for buying […]
Al Gore says he has no reservations about selling his Current TV cable news channel to Al-Jazeera. He says he considers Current TV, which was largely outflanked by MSNBC in its effort to be a liberal alternative to Fox News Channel, to have been a success. “We won every major award in television journalism, and we were profitable each year. But it’s difficult for an independent network to compete in an age of conglomerate. Our democracy has been hacked.”