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October 5, 2005

Podcast of Al Gore's Speech

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Al Gore shares some yuks with my brother Eric Carvin, news editor of AP's asap news service, at the We Media conference.

"Our democracy has been hollowed out," former Vice President Al Gore said today in a scathing speech about the state of civic engagement in American life. In his speech, lasting around 50 minutes, Gore worried that television journalism has been dumbed down to the point where stories about Iraq get shoved aside for stories about a guy with a chronic hiccup problem who can't get into a stable dating relationship. He talked about his new venture, current.tv, which invites viewers to submit their own content to the network, as a strategy for reinvigorating the public marketplace of ideas; current.tv, he explained gives citizens the opportunity to participate in debate in ways that traditional broadcast television would never allow.

Here's a podcast of Gore's speech. It's quite large - more than 40 megs - but when I compressed it too much the audio quality really suffered. I'll post a separate link to the lower bandwidth (11 meg) audio version in case you need a relatively smaller file and can put up with the crummy audio. -andy

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Posted by acarvin at October 5, 2005 10:57 AM

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