Al Gore: You know what may soon offer an alternative to the TV media environment? The internet!

Al Gore Skewers TV News

[Gore] "...the internet is now growing in importance and pervasiveness, to the point where soon it may offer an alternative to the TV media environment that reinvigorates democracy. I'm hoping that's the case."
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But he does have kind words for one outlet: Al Jazeera, the network that bought Current from him.

"The change that many analysts believe was most important in sowing the seeds of the Arab Spring was the introduction in 1996 of the feisty and relatively independent satellite television channel Al Jazeera," he writes in his book.

Critics have pointed out that Al Jazeera has close ties to the government of oil-rich Qatar, but Gore did not respond to questions about it.