What can you do if you don't like the way your ideals are portrayed in the media? You start your own network, and bypass traditional TV by distributing your message through the Internet, mobile devices and video-on-demand.

The conservative-backed Right Network launched today with this introduction:

"We are proud Americans. And we're inspired by the many Americans before us who've stepped forward to help move us all forward. So now we’re stepping forward. We're creating a platform where people can join the national conversation. A place where they can be inspired, entertained, laugh together, or just sit back and enjoy being part of a vibrant community with a similar perspective - a right-minded perspective that includes an entire spectrum of opinion from thoughtful and reserved to bold and brash."

The Right Network's first series is called "Running." It follows a couple of Tea Party-backed candidates who are running (or ran, some lost in the Primary) for offices in California. Other shows include "Right2Laugh," with standup comedians and "Politics and Poker," with card players sitting around talking politics.

Tea Party leaders in our state have been working to promote the launch. "I think the business model has a very good chance to succeed," says Sally Oljar with the Tea Party Patriots in Seattle.

Familiar actor Kelsey Grammer, whose TV show "Frasier" was set in Seattle, is one of the early investors and supporters of RightNetwork. He says it's the only way to "stop allowing people who hate us to define us."

"If you have NBC, ABC, you have entire networks flooded with a very particular point of view," he tells the Associated Press. "They won't admit it, but it's clearly the way it is. There's plenty of room for us."

It's off the subject, but I always loved the view from Frasier Crane's fictional Seattle condo.