Former Michigan governor Granholm leaving Current TV

Jennifer Granholm cited in USA Today, January 3, 2013

Former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm announced she is leaving Current TV and her public affairs program The War Room following the purchase of the cable network by Al-Jazeera, the pan-Arab news giant that the government of Qatar finances.”We were told today that Al-Jazeera is the buyer for Current TV,” Granholm said in a posting on her Facebook page…. Granholm has been considered one of the network’s leading personalities.