Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is coming soon to a computer near you – literally.
The perennial presidential candidate announced Sunday that he will be launching the Ron Paul Channel, a subscription-only, Internet-based television network, in August. Boasting the slogan “Turn off your TV. Turn on the Truth,” Paul described it on his Facebook page as “a media network dedicated to liberty, peace, prosperity, and the celebration of all the values that you and I share.”
Paul hopes that the channel will attract young conservatives looking for an alternative news source to the mainstream media offerings already available to them.
“The young people use the Internet and hand-held devices,” Paul told libertarian scholar Thomas Woods in an interview on The Peter Schiff Show Monday. “They don’t sit and watch TV and turn the programs on at 7:00 and watch or anything like that. So I thought the technology was there… where we can do it on a routine basis, on the Internet, and have a very, very well-designed program to bring as many people as we can together to promote these views that are being totally ignored either by our government or our professors.”
In fact, he came up with the idea of the channel after being overlooked by the media in a political debate a few years back.
“I was at a debate one time, a couple years ago, where I didn’t think I got a fair shake,” Paul said. “In a two-hour debate, I had 89 seconds. I thought, maybe there’s something wrong with the media.”
Paul also told Woods that he wants the channel to specifically cover stories that the mainstream media would overlook, and that the network will also provide an alternative, libertarian viewpoint to breaking news reports.
“I want to keep up very much with foreign policy and the wars going on, economics, the marketplace, the Federal Reserve,” Paul said. “And then again, the great concern that people are experiencing now with the destruction of our privacy and the destruction of our civil liberties.”
Paul has been keeping himself busy in the six months he’s been out of public service. In April, Paul launched a peace and prosperity institute for college students, as well as his own K-12 homeschooling curriculum.
Watch Paul describe his new channel below.
