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The Media Love Gore All
the More
Entertainment Weekly, Time praise the
environmentalist “laptop-wielding ninja”
By Ken Shepherd
Business & Media Institute
June 1, 2006
The media still love Al Gore. The week of the wide
release of his new film “An Inconvenient Truth,” two major magazines
heaped praise on the earth toned-warrior.
The former presidential candidate has pulled “his
charisma out of the lockbox to give a harrowing ecological lesson,”
cooed the sub-headline to a gushy movie review in the June 2
Entertainment Weekly. Writer Owen Gleiberman said that Gore’s new
documentary will, “by the time you’re done watching” beg the
question “Which way on God’s green earth would you want to err” on
global warming.
Meanwhile in the June 5 Time magazine, writer Karen
Tumulty pondered if Clinton’s former Number 2 will shoot for Air
Force One in 2008. The Time writer found Gore a “scorned, washed-up
politician transformed into a laptop-wielding ninja” aiming to
“rescue the planet from the forces of greed and indifference” with
his new feature film, set for wide release on June 2.
The accolades heaped on
Gore were just a continuation of a trend that the Business &
Media Institute documented on May 24. In that report, BMI found 23
times Gore made an appearance in a month’s time frame on news
programs on ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN.
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