What would it take to create an Internet based news network?

[shawn703]

A streaming video type thing, 24 hour coverage, and a place to get away from the corporate-whore media on the television?

[porphyrian]

1. Money.

Thus, it would be doomed to becoming yet another corporate-whore media outlet in short order.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. Is Air-America a "corporate whore outlet"?

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[porphyrian]

7. Give it another year or two.

Once profit becomes more important than product, which will happen sooner or later, they'll be just like any other media whore outlet.

[Warpy]

5. Probably correct, although internet streaming is dirt cheap

compared to broadcasting by tower, satellite, or cable.

Personally, I'd prefer to keep internet news like it is now, print based and on sites like this one. I find that this site tells me things the other media outlets don't discover for days, sometimes months.

It's fun being ahead of the news curve, and it's good to have it print based. Streaming media would be great for people who can't read, but that's about it.

[KamaAina]

3. Something a lot like this

http://english.ohmynews.com/

OhMyNews comes from South Korea, where something like 70 percent of households have broadband! Don't look now, but thanks to Bush*, they're catching up to us in stem c ell reasearch, too... :(

[bemildred]

4. RSS News Feeds work rather well. nt

[Cleita]

6. There are liberals out there with money, who if they pooled

their resources could buy one of the cable networks that aren't doing so well and turn it into a news channel. I think this could be done anyway. I don't know for sure. I mean is Spike TV really doing that well?