Kicking at Gore & What to Do?

I would suggest that the more Gore seems to be gaining public interest the more someone will try to muddy it if not pull out from under the man.

Right now we have the Tennessee Center for Policy Research throwing rocks at Al Gore. As I have now crawled through their site and reviewed the policy papers I was interested in why they would launch such a hit job. As they seemed to stay in the State of Tenn and mostly around tax and land issues.

Here is their mission statement taken from the Amicus Brief in the Kelso Case.

# The Tennessee Center for Policy Research is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan research organization dedicated to providing concerned citizens, public leaders, and government officials with expert empirical research and timely free market solutions to public policy issues of the day. The Center encourages solutions to public policy issues grounded in the individual liberty, competition, personal responsibility, and the social capital of the community bonds to achieve a freer and more prosperous Tennessee.

I would say that this point in time they have strayed a bit from this mission in scope and quality of research or lack of it. Nicole Williams, (615)383-6431 editor@tennesseepolicy.org told me "We only covering Gore's usage from the consumptions side and the carbon offsets were not part of the story" when I called the above number.

So they only now cover a story from the angle they want to cover and thus violate their own mission statement and possible charter of organization. As for the data itself a simple phone call to NES Customer Service at 615-736-6900 and give them an address and they will give you the hi and low for the address.

Now want the more information all one has to do is walk down and hand them 10 buck and you can get a print out of any address. It is all public information yet according to Ms. Martian from NES they would blackout the Name and Account number.

All in all this group seen to been coming out of now where with this hit on Gore yet a bit more research shows that the group recently Trent Seibert joined as Director of Government Accountability. This guy has a bit of reputation of some drama up to get ratings.

# So what made me think I could stroll into a television newsroom and do the kinds of stories I did at The Tennessean and The Denver Post without missing a beat?

It could be this: There is an attitude in print journalism that looks down at the world of tv news. When I was working in newspapers, almost all of the ink-stained reporters thought that tv work was akin to standing up by the scene of the fire/crime/shooting/debate, saying a few words to the camera and then heading home for martinis.

Man, was I wrong about that.

Trent Seibert http://www.target2tv.com/

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So I guess TV did not work out and would explain how a group TCPR went from some some dry, but fairly well researched positions & statement to just getting publicity.

So I guess Trent did learn something from TV after all and maybe someone needs to ask a reporter or two what they think about all of this.

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Nelson