For good or for ill, Matt Lauer is one of a handful of television journalists who seems to have a working brain. Like the rest of his ilk he stays away from systemic issues, and it’s hard to read his political preferences, but, on occasion he comes close to being a tough interviewer that makes the Today Show something more than just fluffery. In this interview he asks some uncomfortable questions of Al Gore (why did you sell Current TV to Al Jazeera?), and while the former VP politely parries the thrust of the interrogation (Lauer is apparently pissed that Gore in his new book pronounces the American media pretty useless), we get a few useful morsels. Invest a few minutes. —Eds
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