Current TV, now owned by Al-Jazeera, turned down offer from Glenn Beck

Brett T. | 10:34 PM on January 02, 2013

Glenn Beck has confirmed that he had approached Current TV about buying the cable channel but was turned down because he was not “aligned” with the network’s point of view. So is it any surprise that Al-Jazeera was given the go-ahead?

Before Al-Jazeera bought Current TV, TheBlaze looked into buying it but we were rejected by progressive owners. http://t.co/hsMorghe WG

— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) January 3, 2013

https://twitter.com/EWErickson/statuses/286668820733648896

https://twitter.com/JGreenDC/status/286669086090477570

The Wall Street Journal reports that Current’s Joel Hyatt agreed to the sale because “Al-Jazeera was founded with the same goals we had for Current,” including “to give voice to those whose voices are not typically heard” and “to speak truth to power.” Beck, on the other hand, would have replaced Current’s programming with his own TheBlazeTV.

http://twitter.com/MrPartisan/statuses/286671622436446209

Sadly, according to Hyatt, that’s not a joke.