Al Gore’s online Current TV (based in San Francisco) abandons its own reporters

April 21, 6:09 AMSF Politics ExaminerArthur Bruzzone

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The silence is deadening and shameful.  Two of Al Gore’s reporters  (his online Current TV network), Laura Ling and Euna Lee, have been held captive for over a month by North Korea.

In that time, the former Vice President has not spoken a word of protest, his site is deleting comments from readers, they’ve posted a guard at their San Francisco studio to keep out the press, and not one article has appeared on his own journalists in their news section. 

You will see, however, an article on the CIA interrogator's use of waterboarding technique on U.S. captive Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the admitted planner of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The Current’s two journalists, Ling and Lee,  face up to 10 years in labor camps ---hard labor.  They were arrested by the North Korean authorities on March 17, after travelling through northern China to the North Korean border to do a story on trafficking of North Korean women.

They may not have even been in North Korea at the time of their arrest. North Korean border guards probably crossed the Tumen (the river that forms the border) while Ling and Lee were filming on the Chinese bank, according to Reporters without Borders.

Where is outrage.  Where is Al Gore.  And why is his online TV station suppressing readers’ comments, refusing to report the story about his own reporters, and posting guards to keep the press out.

Current TV states their  mission on their home page (bottom right).  “Current is about what's going on in your world: all the things you and your friends are actually interested in -- that you won't find on any other news site or cable TV channel.”:

Clearly, the fate of their reporters is of no interest to Current or Al Gore.