{"id":2836,"date":"2005-09-14T19:56:56","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T18:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/14\/current-tv\/"},"modified":"2005-09-14T19:56:56","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T18:56:56","slug":"current-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/09\/current-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Current TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Al Gore? He was the guy who won the US Presidential Election in 2000. Well, he got the most votes, but as thousands of Iraqi morticians and waterlogged South-staters will tell you, he didn&#8217;t actually <em>win.<\/em> Regardless, he&#8217;s taken the last five years getting over it, and now that the mourning period is over, he&#8217;s launched his own TV station.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called Current TV and it&#8217;s basically a bunch of 2 to 5 minute shows (called &#8220;pods&#8221;) that are produced by a plethera of individual, non-Current-affiliated producers, ranging from Jim-with-a-camcorder-down-the-street to professional production houses. If you&#8217;re reading this, you probably can&#8217;t get the station &#8211; but look for it to come soon and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.current.tv\/\" title=\"Silly alt tag, clicks are for linking!\" rel=\"external\">check out the website in the mean time.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Okay so the best part about this is that anyone who can make a decent piece of work is likely to get on the air &#8211; you get paid $250 for your first spot and then paid successively more until, beginning with the 7th production, you get $1000 per spot&#8230;think about that &#8211; a five minute spot could easily be produced in a week if you come up with the right format&#8230;living in a big city you could find oodles to produce on a weekly basis, and even if you only worked 3 weeks per month, well, I can&#8217;t imagine many people who couldn&#8217;t manage to live off of $3000\/mo salary. Quite splendiferous indeed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Al Gore? He was the guy who won the US Presidential Election in 2000. Well, he got the most votes, but as thousands of Iraqi morticians and waterlogged South-staters will tell you, he didn&#8217;t actually win. Regardless, he&#8217;s taken the last five years getting over it, and now that the mourning period is over, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}