I had my young cousin visit me on the Left Coast this past summer so she could soak up some rays. While the Mrs. and I were at work, she had run of the house. She is 23 and a college graduate, but I wouldn't expect her to do any intellectual heavy lifting. She doesn't have a job yet (we swung her a few intervews while she was out here).

Essentially, she is probably an average young lady.

She watched MTV 24/7. That was it. She had no interest in anything else - except doing email and going out to bars at night.

Algore expects to run a "news" network catering to people like her? As she would say: "I'm so sure." (which apparently means the opposite).

In fairness, I think this might be his entire point.

I'm not saying it's necessarily going to work, but trying to pitch news to a demographic that currently isn't interested in the existing news outlets isn't ipso facto ridiculous.

Kevin,

I suppose not. But I seriously don't see how this works.

It'll probably just end up being some flashy, shallow reflection of another news channel with little actual politics and more MTV-lite type stuff. Bonus points if he can throw in a liberal spin on all the news.

When will you folks learn, Mr. Gore is out to invent the concept of a news channel. The same as he invented the internet. Your just not paying attention folks!

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