Current.com Blog | July 01, 2011 | 133 comments

Change from News to Community

We want to acknowledge some recent changes around how the Community area is presented on current.com.

First, we want to assure you that the community's response and reaction has been heard and taken to heart. We're always listening and reacting to what the users have to say.

The changes do not reflect a change in how we value the community. If anything, we're trying to made our site easier to use and make it more clear which areas of the site are community-generated and which are not.

Current is continually evolving, and with that will come some slow changes to the website. We're always trying to find ways to keep the site active and interesting for the users who have been here and contributed their time and so many interesting items over the years. At the same time, we're a TV network and have to ensure that our programs are prominently featured online.

We value the community activity on the site and aren't looking to stifle the activity and freedom community members have to share items they find interesting and discuss them openly. That hasn't changed, it's just called something else.

The change from "News" to "Community" was one we had to make in order to distinguish Current's voice from that of the Community's, especially as we move toward more news commentary and analysis. While we find many of your contributions incredibly interesting and engaging, we can't represent it as News under our name. It's yours and should be characterized that way.

We have heard your thoughts about the disappearance of groups from the area. They're not gone, either, but they were removed from the site-wide navigation temporarily while we work on freshening up the main Groups page (current.com/groups) to make it more clear and easier to find topics you're interested in. 

We're constantly trying new things on the site and although we're always trying to make it better, we understand that some changes won't please everyone. We're still trying to find new and interesting ways of highlighting the best the Community has to offer, including our daily "From the Community" roundup that has a spot on top of the current.com home page 24/7, and a new "Community Spotlight" group that features some of the most compelling user-generated items and discussions, and shows up in the new Community drop-down in the top nav. We hope you like it.

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133 comments // Change from News to Community

  • EdJoyProductions
  • xhuffpo
    • +3
      xhuffpo  

    • An open message to current
      We know what this smells like, we have seen it before, you are going to the mainstream middle. You are becoming a soulless corporate machine.
      The irony of K.O. now on the air and you push the people, who would have backed him with as much passion as he shows, to a backwater that will turn rancid and then dry up because you don't want the passion to show.
      Good luck standing for nothing.

    • 11 months ago
  • MikeMaddigan
  • queenofit
    • 0
      queenofit  

    • Good luck with your new or should I say, your "newest" approach here. I assume if what we had before was making you $$$$$ (big bucks) then you would have decided to stay with it and unfortunately (in my view) you're obviously more interested in making money and competing, than staying true to your original intent. I only came here because of the "community" participation, otherwise, there are plenty of corporate run news groups online that are already out there, and I don't give a hoot about following them either, nor do I watch TV, so, basically, I am not your target anyway. I am a little like JanforGore in that I have an emotional connection here, and will drop in from time to time, but, basically, this is not working for me, and today was even worse. I had to be out of commission for nearly two weeks, so I was offline, when I returned, things were so strangely different, that it took me about 15 minutes to figure out how to find out what you had done this time. I am not happy to see how little interest you seem to be placing with the so called "community" members comments, finding a group of dedicated participants who spend their time sharing their research, rants, beliefs, hopes, dreams and much more here is not easy to find. I wish this had turned out better......wearily, Queenofit :(

    • 11 months ago
  • haydemon
    • -1
      haydemon  

    • I HATE the new logo! I don't know what it's trying to be, but it looks like a piece of cloth over the waters (why?) or, as somebody said somewhere else here, like a banner inviting one to a haunted house. It totally lacks personality, it's puny, and it doesn't look "current" at all! Please fire your designer(s)!

    • 11 months ago
  • ColeRayne
  • PoliticalAmazon
    • 0
      PoliticalAmazon  
    • Emucratic:

      "I don't know about everyone else here, but this new layout makes me feel trapped."

      --------------------

      NO KIDDING! Especially when I just signed on and there is a HUGE image of Keith Olbermann filling the screen.

      I also agree with your comment about feeling surrounded by a forest.

      Since KO became in charge of news programming, the entry screen has become more busy. If you go to the KO page on Current, it is a mish-mash cacophony of unrelated-by-style-or-design images, banners, and blocks of text. I believe KO's cacophonous "style" is being slowly incorporated by Current's entry screen, and it is not a good look.

      If I was not already familiar with KO, I would not go past his first entry web page.

    • 11 months ago
  • mirror
    • 0
      mirror  

    • Ill take a guess and tell you why your changing it all: you re now ToOLs of the media corps!!! congrads for lying to yourselves so well!! you actually sound convinced you've done some improvement. you've killed the only live thing about CURRENT and stuffed it into your private little safe far away from the sun where it will wither and die.............

    • 11 months ago
  • punman
    • 0
      punman  
    • Image

    • http://current.com/community/93319614_solutions-new-show-proposal-for-current.ht...

      This is a new idea based on Feedback from the Community on the Sarah Palin poetry idea that seems to be getting zero response from The Community (mostly deserved.) Many Community Members are dismayed by what they feel is a backseat to the new direction at Current. This doesn't have to be so. The Community can still be an integral part of Current and its future and this may be part of a solution called "SOLUTIONS" which can air sometime after Countdown,

      SOLUTIONS would be a new type of show that actually tackles A Problem head on and actually makes a Change. Each night the hour would be divided into segments that are revisited in upcoming shows. Whatever the Problem is that ails our country now, should be the topic of conversation. Instead of talking heads, the actual decision makers come on the show and work on the Problem until something meaningful happens- like a resolution to the Problem. Audience members would be involved also- similar to a town meeting format. That would be real change- Something that Current TV could strive for and have everyone from the Community involved with. Enough fooling around with the same old BS from day to day- now is the time to get started- there are many problems out there that need real, workable "SOLUTIONS" - something different - less Snarky and more Substantive.

    • 11 months ago
  • pissedoffinarkansas
    • +2
      pissedoffinarkansas  

    • "We value the community activity on the site and aren't looking to stifle the activity and freedom community members have to share items they find interesting and discuss them openly."
      Is that why "An Open Letter to Al Gore" , was removed from the front pages yesterday and relegated to who knows where( I personally looked through the first 600 posts yesterday afternoon and couldn't find it). This kind of shit happens all the time. If your post is critical of Current or talks about something (and I don't pretend to know who makes those decisions cause there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the censorship, sometimes it's allowed through, sometimes it is literally kicked to the back of the proverbial bus) deemed "unworthy" , your post will never see the light of day which is very frustrating. I understand people being upset about the changes and wanting to leave. I would myself but there isn't anything as good or better out there. if anyone knows of anything that is PLEASE let me know.

      P.S. I don't even try to post any more for the reasons mentioned above. It's hard to get any discussion on something that never gets past pg. 11 or 12 on the site. Not many people go back that far I don't think.

    • 11 months ago
  • PoliticalAmazon
    • 0
      PoliticalAmazon  

    • Ah, damn. Just heard from a fellow Current poster that he is leaving.

      I found what he said to me to be very much the gut feeling I have now:

      "Basically I get the same uncomfortable feeling I did at HP.. No point to being where you don't feel like it's a straight game..."

      It DOES feel like HP. Lord, will Current be going to AOL next?

    • 11 months ago
  • PoliticalAmazon
    • +1
      PoliticalAmazon  

    • Everything changes. Current changed when the HP refugees flooded Current, and some of the Current oldsters really resented it.

      The reason I came to Current and stayed here was because of the relatively lack of JBT monitoring, and the ability for posters to post news articles. I'm over 12 years old--really, I am--and I can discern which is credible and which is not.

      So, when the changes grow to the end of my tolerance zone, I'll move on, just like I moved on from HP when they started making the pre-AOL changes.

      There are two good ways to vote: with your pocketbook and with your feet. Mostly, giving your opinion to someone, or an organization, that made changes before they even asked for your input, is really a huge waste of time.

      If they cared whether or not you stayed, they would have asked for your input first.

    • 11 months ago
  • Buckeye_Bill
    • +1
      Buckeye_Bill  
    • PoliticalAmazon:

      I've been a traveler of the internet for many years now. From the days of Blogger and Metafliter back when it as called "wee blogs". I've posted countless comments on other sites such as HuffPo and the YouTube communities for years. PlanetPOV was a real trip! Then FOK and now Current. And of course I've had my own blog for years now, too. The one theme of all is that they change with time and who joins. The changing of the guard, you might say.

      Like a soup. The more peas you drop into an onion soup, the more it becomes *pea soup.

      I do learn information as I go about my journey. Some good, some not so. There is one constant, though. Trolls are the same whereever I go. It's as if they all have the same mindset and desire to name-call and belittle others points of view.

      How bizarre.

      http://www.metafilter.com/about.mefi

      *I have nothing against onion or pea soup! (My disclaimer)

    • 11 months ago
  • PoliticalAmazon
    • -1
      PoliticalAmazon  
    • Buckeye_Bill:

      I started using the internet when it was still basically just used for research---a very long time ago.

      I'm also aware that change occurs, and not just on the internet. I have been visiting some websites for many years, and rolled with the changes. I had planned to do the same with Current, but their obnoxious approach to it and the "back-of-the-bus" relegation of a huge part of their core users is unsettling and unwarranted.

      Where we differ is that I don't believe anyone is a "troll." Everyone has an opinion. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean the person is a "troll."

    • 11 months ago
  • Buckeye_Bill
    • +1
      Buckeye_Bill  
    • PoliticalAmazon:

      We certainly do differ there. I can not fathom how one person can verbally attack another without ever having "met" them or by reading a few sentences written and prejudge another. I would say that when the majority views on a website see a commenter as a troll...they're a troll.

    • 11 months ago
  • David_H
  • Buckeye_Bill
  • PoliticalAmazon
    • +1
      PoliticalAmazon  

    • QUOTING FROM EXPLANATION: "The change from "News" to "Community" was one we had to make in order to distinguish Current's voice from that of the Community's, especially as we move toward more news commentary and analysis. While we find many of your contributions incredibly interesting and engaging, we can't represent it as News under our name. It's yours and should be characterized that way."

      ----------------

      The fact that it happened at the exact-same time Keith Olbermann took over news programming for Current is, what? A coincidence?

      This sounds like a WH press briefing.

    • 11 months ago
  • Conniepae
    • 0
      Conniepae  
    • PoliticalAmazon:

      The night of the change, I posted some pretty harsh comments. I felt victimized by the changes. It felt like they were removing an important part of my personal expression. Current has been a place I could come to vent, share and speak my mind. I feared they were eliminating one of their best features.

      But, as it turns out, I'm still here, venting, sharing and speaking my mind. I don't blame them for not wanting to lay claim to others views as news. Keith Olbermann can be a very positive thing for current. During the next campaign season, finding people willing to expose the shenanigans will be a necessity. Our courts have failed us. Mainstream media has failed us. I sincerely hope Keith and Current do not.

      Don't leave, make it better! Participation is the key. When you see lies, expose them. When you see injustice, say it. Current is a place to express what's on your mind and then hear what's on the minds of others. People need a place to sort out fact from fiction.

    • 11 months ago
  • PoliticalAmazon
    • -1
      PoliticalAmazon  
    • Conniepae:

      I agree that KO CAN be a very positive change for Current, and had anticipated he would.

      However, if the first thing he does as the head of news programming for Current is make changes that marginalizes Current's loyal news posters to the back of the bus, resulting in new and old posters leaving Current, then he is not making a positive change.

      From what I have seen, the news board posters made up a significant percentage of Current's users and visitors. I don't see the financial incentive to insulting them by making changes which put them on the fringe of Current, ending up motivating many posters to move to another board system.

      Commentator celebrities should be aware of big heads. Arianna thought her high-handed changes to HP and merge with AOL would leave her HP community largely intact. That didn't happen.

      Perhaps that is actually a good thing, from Arianna's point of view. After all, Arianna, HP and AOL had a very large base of users, so losing a lot of HP's in the merge may not impact them in the long run.

      But KO and Current don't have that luxury. KO has gone through a rough time the last six months, and, especially with the circumstances under which he left MSNBC, I don't think he can afford to alienate a portion of the loyal contributors to his new home base.

      People will notice the change in numbers. There won't be more people coming here to see KO's show, because it is not offered here online. So what will they come here for? To post about KO?

      Where would the post? On the back-of-the-bus boards here at Current?

      I used to regularly start news topics before. I have not since the change, and I don't anticipate doing so in the future. I don't believe viewers' news contributions should be relegated to the equivalent of a board featuring folders like "Knitting Patterns for the Holidays."

      Whoever made this decision should be fired. Current ended up insulting its loyal users, and motivated them to find another posting home, at a time when KO needs to have as much traffic as possible through Current.

    • 11 months ago
  • remanns
  • David_H
  • remanns
    • -1
      remanns  
    • David_H:

      The "system" they [ c u r r e n t ] used previously for posters was fine by me -

      but if they have their hearts set on THIS ONE, it might as well actually function.

    • 11 months ago
  • remanns
    • -1
      remanns  
    • David_H:

      p.s. - - -
      It DOES seems odd to me that the "cold shoulder" badge is worth NEGATIVE points,....or whatever ; it seem to denote some community INTEREST in comments made.

      ( worth pints to me )

    • 11 months ago
  • Buckeye_Bill
    • 0
      Buckeye_Bill  
    • David_H:

      Isn't it odd how men will lay down their lives for medals? The military realized this back during WWI. They could get away with not paying soldiers anything by handing out medals!

      And now we have 'badges'.

    • 11 months ago
  • David_H
  • Buckeye_Bill
    • 0
      Buckeye_Bill  
    • David_H:

      Everyone has heard the words of General Eisenhower warning us about the MIC, however, there was another General before him that was eloquent with words to explain how war is a racket. Smedley Darlington Butler. A two-time recipient of the Medal of Honor. He had quite a few suggestions that would cause nations to think twice about entering into a war.

      http://youtu.be/F3_EXqJ8f-0 (of course, one must copy and paste this link to actually see it)

    • 11 months ago
  • remanns
    • +5
      remanns  

    • This is a lateral comment,............but DAMN,.......I am just sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo damn TIRED of hearing "Olberperson THIS,....and Olberperson THAT" ,.......GAH !

      ( and I don't have a problem with the guy or anything,......I DO prefer Bill Maher as a point of person taste,.....but its JUST personal taste, don't have a chip on my shoulder about it .)

      If "COMMUNITY" [ the lil button on top ] were just labeled "GROUPS" - and the "subset categories" were listed as "COMMUNITY OPTIONS",......well,....that would actually be enough to sate me.

      As it is ,...........well,......."GROUPness" has become a tad remote and inaccessible to the casual viewer ; bummer that.

      NOTE - I actually think there should be a complete alphabetical list of ALL groups, and different options for sorting them should be available.

      You should be able to view them in order of overall popularity,....c u r r e n t ( -heh- ) no. of "hits", ( say,...within the day or week ), related content,.....that sort of thing.

      GROUPS,....baby,.....GROUPS.

      ( and the "bOObies" grope o' course ! HUZZAH ! )

    • 11 months ago
  • Vic_Romano
  • remanns
  • remanns
  • treewolf39
  • Misti
  • David_H
  • remanns
  • treewolf39
    • +1
      treewolf39  
    • David_H:

      He should rename the segment "The Biggest Asshole We Have Heard About Today". Keith is cool but his show will fail by not being available online. Current TV is just not going to be that popular unless they step up truth telling and cut back on mindless advertising. It is like "you are what you eat". Pimping shit every 7 minutes only pisses thinking people off.

    • 11 months ago
  • Conniepae
    • 0
      Conniepae  
    • treewolf39:

      Countdown with Keith Olberman is available live on the internet. Copy and paste this link into your favorites http://current.com/1t8u6kc tune in at 8:00 weeknights and you can watch his show. If you open another tab, you can even listen in the background while being on other sites.

      I take my laptop outside to the picnic table and listen to Keith. I can't watch current tv from my picnic table, but I can watch Keith. Don't let change at current dim your views of what Keith Olbermann and Al Gore are trying to do. I see their goal as a worthy one. Keith is trying to lead with truth. That's a noble goal.

      We are going to need a place to find some truth when the 2012 campaign get's in full swing. Republicans have large sums of money to spin disinformation. Someone must hold them accountable and it won't be mainstream media. Trust is earned and they lost my trust long ago.

    • 11 months ago
  • Conniepae
  • treewolf39
  • treewolf39
    • 0
      treewolf39  
    • Conniepae:

      They need a model similar to MSNBC.com. They would still be able to advertise but we would be able to actually watch the whole show. As it stands I have not seen a show yet and it is very frustrating because I enjoy Keith. I pay 55 dollars a month to be able to stream video without interruption so I am already paying to play. Happy 4th!

    • 11 months ago
  • Conniepae
    • +1
      Conniepae  
    • treewolf39:

      I have Current TV with my cable package through Time Warner in Cleveland. When I tried to watch Monday and Friday of his first week, it said "Crent TV unavailable, please try again later". I was furious, I went to chat on line to voice my frustration. TV isn't cheapl. I pay over $100.00 a month, just for TV. I don't want them filtering what I want to see. If the problem continues, I am going to switch cable companies.

      It's easy to say, I'll just cancel Time Warner, but I have had them a long time and enjoy the programming I have. But, if I find out they were intentionally blacking out Keith Olbermann and Current TV, that's justification enough for me. Trust is earned and if they intentionally blocked Keith's show, they lost my trust and my $100+ dollar a month payment! Money talks. If enough people cancel Time Warner for playing politics with 'our' television dollars, they would stop it.

      Politics over profit, isn't profitable. Time Warner is in it for the money, they are just playing politics. Not with my money!

    • 11 months ago
  • treewolf39
    • 0
      treewolf39  
    • Conniepae:

      If I have to pay more I would be tempted to give up the whole mess. I have been on the net for about five years now and I have been watching it tighten around the big players. TV is total propaganda with some very limited exceptions. The internet is being chocked in much the same way. Time Warner is not our buddy...

    • 11 months ago
  • ArchDruid
  • remanns
  • savvy7
    • +1
      savvy7  
    • ArchDruid:

      Wish you'd reconsider, ArchDruid. Yours were some of the comments I most enjoyed reading, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do. I understand. I've been noticing a different ambiance from Current's earlier months, and found myself motivated to contribute less and less to the fray. I'll probably give it six more months, popping in from time to time, and if it goes downhill...

    • 11 months ago
  • Conniepae
    • +1
      Conniepae  
    • ArchDruid:

      Don't leave. I have visited your posts! The disasters should be discussed. Your posting them gives people a chance to talk about it. Your posts shine a light on the trajedy still happening in Japan.

      I had planned to leave, but where would I go to vent? Where else has the community of current? Granted we have lost many great people at current, but it's not over. They may come back?

    • 11 months ago
  • ivxx
  • Conniepae
    • +1
      Conniepae  
    • ivxx:

      Welcome back. I'm hoping now that it's a community, they will have 'hometown hero's' again. Or, instead of Vicky, we have a Keith. I appreciate Keith's voice of reason. I hope we can work together, to stop people from moving along to the wrongs.

      Jon Stewart does it regularly. He exposes wrongs, which everyone else just moved along to. Keith can do it on a serious note. He can expose the lack of real news on cable news. When we are being spun with fluff news, so the real news gets ignored.

      I'm looking for some good discussions. I think Keith will bring more people to the current community.

      He claims to want accountability and truth! I hope so, because so do I!

    • 11 months ago
  • TranceSendDance
    • +2
      TranceSendDance  

    • When you followed your first first Olbermann (sp?) show with some Drug War propaganda bullshit "documentary" about pharmies i immediately recalled that the same asshole who let Bush II steal our nation created this psyop of a news portal to begin with.

      And his wife was the crusader of "Parental Advisory" on art.

      Thanks alot!

    • 11 months ago
  • PoliticalAmazon
    • +1
      PoliticalAmazon  
    • TranceSendDance:

      Yeah, but when Bush ran for office even Frank Zappa--TGore's nemesis, if you remember--said he'd get on his knees and kiss her feet if it meant Bush wouldn't be elected. Dang, I miss him.

      I don't think VPs can be blamed for what the presidents do. Look at Biden and Obama....I would hope Biden is as sick as I am (probably more because he knows more than I do) at how Obama has turned out.

      About the recent changes....come on, why blame Gore and Current? The changes started when Keith Olbermann took over the news programming for Current.

      Like others, I don't like the "back-of-the-bus" feeling being stuck in a namby-pamby "COMMUNITY" heading imparts. If anyone finds a new posting home that's better, please let me know before you leave for good.

    • 11 months ago
  • Conniepae
  • Buckeye_Bill
  • ArchDruid
  • PoliticalAmazon
  • SARGENURSE
    • -1
      SARGENURSE  

    • Hooooraaayyy!!! So glad to have Kieth back on his Countdown show. I love his commentary, and his Friday's Thurber reads. Thank you for bringing our favorite journalist back to TV.

    • 11 months ago
  • Buckeye_Bill
    • 0
      Buckeye_Bill  
    • SARGENURSE:

      All the FOKers here are going ga-ga for KO. He's kinda, sorta taken over Current single-handedly. As you can notice on top of this page there's:

      COUNTDOWN | SHOWS | VIDEOS | SCHEDULE | COMMUNITY

      With a drop down menu on SHOWS redundantly indicating COUNTDOWN again.

      Changes in attitude, changes in lattitude...nothing remains quite the same.

      That's what brought me here, too.

    • 11 months ago
  • Buckeye_Bill
    • +1
      Buckeye_Bill  

    • Current is changing its "current" to an opinion-based entity of professionals rather than us amateurs. I think the "powers that be" probably see a need to "tack" a different course. I only hope it pays off for them since this is will take them to uncharted territory. We may thank or curse Keith for this in the near future.

      Progress is like that sometimes.

      "Good night and good luck" - Edward R. Murrow (and now KO)

      Thanks, we'll need all we can get!

    • 11 months ago
  • PoliticalAmazon
  • Buckeye_Bill
  • timetide
    • +2
      timetide  

    • so what excuse are you using for the removeal of the threads critical of the changes? before you could lable them "not news" and move them to current limbo. since we no longer have a "news" section (which is bs by the way) they belong in the "community" section since this is an action that screwed the communityover.

    • 11 months ago
  • PoliticalAmazon
    • 0
      PoliticalAmazon  
    • timetide:

      Well, as long as I'm part of the Current experience, I will be looking for news from my peeps in the "community." I don't want sanitized news, and I like news being posted by a wide band of different people, like we used to have.

      I don't want ONE PERSON's idea of what is "news," which is what we have now with KO. That's worse than MSNBC, for the love of God.

    • 11 months ago
  • letsliveinpeace
  • treewolf39
    • +2
      treewolf39  
    • Image
    • ArchDruid:

      You Are More Likely to Survive a Plane Crash than Click a Banner Ad

      CAITLIN DICKSONJUN 29, 20114,783 ViewsComments (10)
      How annoying are banner ads? You know, those ubiquitous advertisements that drop down in your face when you open most news sites? The worst are the ones that expand when you scroll over them, forcing you to click on them no matter how hard to try to avoid it. If you hate banner ads as much as we do, you are not alone: most people do not click on them. Solve Media, an advertising consulting company, has discovered how much more likely you are to do even the most statistically unlikely of things than click on one of these intrusive advertisements, Business Insider reports. For example, "you are 31.25 times more likely to win a prize in the Mega Millions than you are to click on a banner ad." Not only that, "you are 87.8 times more likely to apply to Harvard and get in...112.50 times more likely to sign up for and complete NAVY SEAL training...279.64 times more likely to climb Mount Everest...and 475.28 times more likely to survive a plane crash than you are to click on a banner ad." It's unclear how they figured this out, or if the methodology is all that sound, but we're going to hazard a guess that people hate banner ads enough to enjoy the numbers anyway.

      http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2011/06/you-are-more-likely-survive-plan...

      I don't think Current understands why people use the internet instead of television.

    • 11 months ago
  • PoliticalAmazon
    • 0
      PoliticalAmazon  
    • ArchDruid:

      Well, look what I just found at AtlanticWire. And notice, they have a message board :-)

      Thanks for the link!

      -----------------------------------------

      "American Boots Hit the Ground in Somalia After Drone Attacks
      Adam Clark Estes Jul 02, 2011 7,935 Views Comments (29)

      Somalia is now the sixth country over which the United States is flying attack drones. Last month, the same Special Operations Command unit currently operating in Yemen carried out an attack on two leaders of the Somali militant group al-Shabab in a June 23 mission. The Washington Post reported the attack on Wednesday, and on Friday, Somalia's defense minister says that American military forces touched down to collect the bodies of the insurgents. Al-Shabab has carried out attacks on the Somali government, and while the government is calling on more American drone missions, they say they were not aware of the first drone attack. "But we are not complaining about that. Absolutely not. We welcome it," Defense Minister Mohamoud Haji Faqi told the Associated Press. "We understand the U.S.'s need to quickly act on its intelligence on the ground."....

      -------------------------------------

    • 11 months ago
  • PoliticalAmazon
    • +1
      PoliticalAmazon  
    • treewolf39:

      "I don't think Current understands why people use the internet instead of television."

      -------

      Or why they made Current their home, instead of any of the other gazillions of media websites on the internet.

    • 11 months ago
  • treewolf39
  • Buckeye_Bill
  • Misti
  • JanforGore
  • PoliticalAmazon
  • SARGENURSE
    • 0
      SARGENURSE  
    • ArchDruid:

      Who the hell wants to be 'main'stream any more??? The regulars are simply following the orders of the corporate CEO's, avoiding investigations that could discover the truth==so just tell me why.

    • 11 months ago
  • ozoneocean
    • +7
      ozoneocean  

    • Ugh "especially as we move toward more news commentary and analysis." that's worse than when it went all MTV. At least then all the posts in the top ten stories weren't on the SAME thing-
      Thank you HUFF-Po rejects for turning this place into partisan hell.

      I love politics and I'm strident left-wing but I also love smart entertainment and clever community interaction with people sharing new and interesting stuff, NOT constant, unremitting RAGE at the state of the world ALL THE TIME.

    • 11 months ago
  • treewolf39
  • remanns
  • jeffissleeping
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
  • KB723
  • treewolf39
    • +6
      treewolf39  

    • Well I for one am glad it is not completely broken ........YET. It is pretty chicken-shit to not post your TV content online. Many of us have NO tolerance for main stream commercials. Cutting us out only limits our ability to discuss Current content and to share it with others when IT is relevant and honest.

    • 11 months ago
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
    • +2
      COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM  
    • treewolf39:

      I refuse to watch almost any program based upon advertising interspersion. Thank God there are some cable channels without advertising, while other ad free sources are being dropped or curtailed. Even many fringe stations feature more advertising than program content like OWN.

    • 11 months ago
  • treewolf39
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
  • treewolf39
  • Buckeye_Bill
  • treewolf39
    • 0
      treewolf39  
    • Buckeye_Bill:

      I like Cent but he is playing purely political mostly showing or calling out political lies. Mean-while real news and weather and oil spills and nuclear spills are happening around the world. RT is not afraid of climate reporting and they stream live online all day and night. Makes CNN completely irrelevant.

    • 4 years ago
  • Buckeye_Bill
  • treewolf39
  • ArchDruid
  • lordsbassman
  • samthesixth
  • of10rot10
  • of10rot10
  • samthesixth
  • oppressed1
    • +5
      oppressed1  

    • More disingenuous bs. So you guys want to be a real news organization? Must be using the fox template of burying stories and highlighting your agenda. Worked for fox, you guys might as well try to cash in.

    • 11 months ago
  • of10rot10
    • +8
      of10rot10  

    • I think you all have failed to understand we are here for NEWS, our own news whether it ever makes it off the new page or not! Have you forgotten just how riveted Current was during Egypt or the earliest days of Wisconsin? We came HERE for the front line because of our fellow members like Leen61 keeping us up to date on things mass media doesn't deem important enough to share or didn't bother to even ask about.

      We love and adore Keith but there still isn't enough of him on this site. MSNBC offered more and unlike MSNBC not all of us can get our providers to carry Current TV. We had been hoping for some trade back and forth with Keith on the news we want, the news we come here for. Not News is ONLY Keith and the rest of us are now "community". How fluffy bunny can you get? If we had not been here for years making this site what it is you would NOT have been able to get a name like Keith.

      So work it out and quick! Make this cutting edge again and not just another cookie-cutter news dump!

    • 11 months ago
  • bailey78
  • PoliticalAmazon
  • bailey78
  • Jon_Shelley
    • -12
      Jon_Shelley  

    • Seriously, I am grateful for the clarification. In spite of what some of the narcissists in the 'community' might think the distinction between staff and community commenters is essential for credibility. I hope no one here really believes that their comments are as important as genuine news stories.

    • 11 months ago
  • bailey78
  • lordsbassman
    • +9
      lordsbassman  
    • Jon_Shelley:

      Back when Current.com and Current_tv launched together we were adding the genuine news stories. People like you have no idea what that was like. Up until a year ago members that proved themselves at level 3/4 could have the privilege to recommend stories and moderate topics. I'm glad you are enjoying it now.

    • 11 months ago
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