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Cenk Uyger, former MSNBC host and host of “The Young Turks” Internet show, will soon join Keith Olbermann, David Bohrman, and other major network stars who now work for Current TV.

Gore: “Welcome to Current TV, Cenk. Joel Hyatt and I are so excited to have you and we want you to keep on speaking truth to power without fear or favor. You’re on a truly independent network show.”
Cenk: “That’s why I’m here—I love it. I want to be independent, aggressive, progressive…I know you’re not going to mind that.”

Uyger worked for MSNBC earlier this year, but a blogger for the New York Times says he quit because he sensed network execs were affected by political pressure.

“MSNBC may or may not be the establishment, but Current seems to be the anti-establishment; it promotes itself as the only news and commentary channel that is independently owned.”

This isn’t the first time co-founder and former vice president Al Gore picked up someone from a different news network, citing Current’s unique independence.

Gore added Keith Olbermann to Current’s list of hosts earlier this year, and just this past month he hired former CNN executive David Bohrman.

According to the Huffington Post, Gore said in a statement “...that hiring Olbermann showed the network's intention to be a truly independent, conflict-free, progressive voice in the news and political commentary arena." And Bohrman, ‘passionately shares our vision’ and will help ‘take Current to a whole new level in programming and production.’”

In an interview with CNN’s Howard Kurtz, Bohrman hinted Current’s independence isn’t just attracting other networks’ stars, but it may also attract other networks’ viewers as well.

“Well, I see us taking viewers from them both. I think MSNBC trots it out a little bit at night. I think most of the day, 20 hours a day, it’s the NBC News network. And the one trap even at night that I think we see at MSNBC, and I think we see here even at CNN, as well, there’s almost this false equivalency where everything is a minute on this opinion and then a minute a counter-opinion… There’s too much yelling and shouting for the appearance of balance.”

At Current, Uyger will host a progressive nightly show at 7 p.m. about politics and pop culture to lead in to the network’s main show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

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