Arts & Entertainment Many Americans Think Al Jazeera Are Terrorists, Say TV Experts With the purchase of Current TV this week, Pan-Arab news network Al Jazeera bought a huge base of American subscribers (many of whom didn't seem to know they even had the channel). According
Arts & Entertainment Gavin Newsom Is Departing Current TV Immediately following yesterday's news that Al Jazeera had bought Current TV, Gavin Newsom announces that he'll be taking his seven-month-old Gavin Newsom Show off the air. According to Newsom spokesman and infamous SFist
SF News Al Gore Jazeera? Arabic News Network Possibly Buying Out Current TV [Updated] After several months of rumors that Current TV was looking to sell out, Qatar-based, Arabic satellite news network Al Jazeera is reportedly finalizing a deal that would take over the cable news network
SF News Current TV Contemplating Selling Out Current TV, the independent television network founded by Al Gore in 2005 with headquarters right across from AT&T Park, has been entertaining offers to be acquired by some other network or
SF News Current TV HQ Reportedly Robbed In Suspicious Weekend Heist At the SoMa headquarters of Current TV, the locally based alternative news channel reportedly fell victim to a curious heist over the weekend. In the very same building where the Lieutenant Governor films
Arts & Entertainment Gavin Newsom Gets His Own Talk Show On Current TV Proven to be such a shoot-from-the-hip, anything-goes, oh-my-god-did-he-really-just-say-that kind of guy, former San Francisco Mayor and now Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom landed his very own talk show on Current TV, reports Ms. Carla
SF News Making More Money Than Ever Before, Current Plans Massive Layoffs What's being described as a "major bloodbath," both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Current offices plan on snipping 80 employees, which will bring their entire staff to somewhere around 300. This comes
SF News Freed Journalists Ling and Lee Arrive In U.S. After almost five months of being held in North Korea for "hostile acts," San Francisco-based journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee arrived back in the U.S. just 24 hours after Bill Clinton
SF News Husbands of Laura Ling and Euna Lee Speak Out Last night. before a vigil for Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who are currently serving a 12-year jail sentence in North Korea for illegally crossing the border, the inmates' husbands
SF News Watch Newsom Interview Now Current TV has asked us to plug an interview their doing with Newsom right this very second. For better or for worse, the chat will be about not trashing your coffee grounds (which
SF News Formerly Jailed Journalist Josh Wolf On Jailed Journalists Concerned that today's sentencing will land, if all goes horribly wrong, Current TV journos Laura Ling and Euna Lee 12 years of hard labor inside a North Korean jail, we asked formerly-jailed journalist
SF News North Korean Prisons: No San Quentin While many chin-scratching political commentators claim that Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the two Current TV journalists who were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea, are bargaining chips in
misc Photo du Jour 427 Scene from yesterday's rally at Civic Center to free Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. Both are on trial in North Korea for something ridiculous, facing 10 years of hard labor.
SF News Journalists Detained in North Korea Go on Trial Thursday, Lisa Ling to Speak Out This Week CurrentTV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who were detained for illegally crossing the North Korean border and accused of "hostile acts," are set to go on trial on Thursday. They were working
misc Film: The Death Star Destroys the Starship Enterprise Here's a great follow-up to last fall's Imperial Fleet Week: Death Star Over San Francisco, by Mike Horn of Current TV. Military force was authorized yesterday minutes after the E.T.'s 48
SF News Where Is the Love, Current TV? It's been over two weeks since Current TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee were arrested at the North Korean border. The two journalist sit in jail, waiting to be tried for "hostile
SF News Lisa Ling's Sister, a Spy? The two CurrentTV journalists detained in North Korea, reporter Laura Ling photographer Euna Kim, are under investigation by authorities for espionage. While allegedly being treated well in captivity (at least according to North
Arts & Entertainment Film du Jour: The Rosenthals, Punk Rock Family What with the Fowler family giving San Francisco a bad name, let us not forget about the real, truly liberal, adorably subversive families of the Bay Area. Take, for example, the Rosenthals. According
SF News Current TV Sacks 30+ Employees Emmy-awarding Current TV -- YouTube for the Atlantic Monthly set, and a site we have grown to love over the last year -- is handing out the pink slips today. Alas. According to
SF News Rent Control/Prop 98: the Video Care of Current TV, here's a nifty video about Proposition 98, which, if passed, would eliminate rent control. Zoinks. It also features someone with a very thick East Coast accent. Double zoinks. Anyway,
misc Radiohead Serves Up NYE Performance of <i>In Rainbows</i> on Current TV Moby must be sick with envy over this one. Tonight the "unconventional young network," Emmy Award-winning Current TV, will air a taped, private, hour-long Radiohead concert on New Year's Eve (and on New
SF News Digging MySpace's New Digs The sexy cats over at ValleyWag have the fresh MySpace office shots that you want. Or not. Formerly the home of LookSmart, the new space will be able to call other fresh, hip,
Arts & Entertainment Current TV Wins Emmy For Some Reason Also: really? Why? Aside from having sweet Mission Bay offices -- with self-consciously placed arcade games in their front windows -- Current TV takes itself way too seriously to be important. They have
SF News RagoneWatch (A Day Late) Here's our Caption Action entry for the picture above! Oscar winner Al Gore, Oscar-less Leonardo diCaprio, and our pick in the pool for Best Supporting Actor (in the role of John Nelson), Peter
Arts & Entertainment Journalist Josh Wolf Jailed for Video Screw getting Dooced, Josh Wolf has set the blogger bar a bit higher than getting fired. He's been jailed. Judge William Alsup, presiding over a federal grand jury case investigating the attempted burning