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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 01:16 AM
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The News Network bush Will Hate!--This could be the biggest thing ever
Edited on Sun Jun-26-05 01:32 AM by Douglas Carpenter
The News Network bush Will Hate! by m16eib of the Daily Kos

This needs to be blasted into the Blogosphere!

IWT news
I don't really care if you want to miss out on the chance for truely independent news.

NO corporate backing, NO government funding, and NO commercials.

Just independent WORLD news, supported ONLY by the people.

http://www.iwtnews.com/

Watch the VIDEO, do the SURVEY, then you decide if they merit your support!

Now Click on the link and freep this survey! They desperately want Kossacks input (and yes, they wouldn't mind your donation...)

http://www.iwtnews.com/

Here is the link to the rest of the Daily Kos article:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/25/104646/250

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A True Voice of Opposition
--A Voice for Working People
--Not the Elite--
http://www.bernie.org/issues.asp

Who is Congressman Bernie Sanders?

Read this article and watch the short video clips:

http://www.davidsirota.com/2005/04/who-is-bernie-sanders.html

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LightningFlash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 01:25 AM
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1. Bring it on.....Let's get this rolling!!!
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Sid Demo Donating Member (54 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 01:32 AM
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2. I'm in.
I'm giving the $50.00 they are asking for. This would be great!!
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:30 AM
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10. this is very, very, very big
Check this link:


http://www.iwtnews.com/


IWT—Independent World Television

ABOUT IWTNEWS
Independent World Television is building the world’s first global independent news network. Online and on TV, IWTnews will deliver independent news and real debate from professional and citizen journalists -– without funding from governments, corporations or commercial advertising. Using the web to organize and raise funds across borders, IWTnews is building an international movement for democracy.

http://www.iwtnews.com/



http://www.iwtnews.com/
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 11:40 PM
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45. Oh wow on the photo
That's just a little boy with a gun looking ready for battle! :cry:
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 01:44 AM
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3. it is definitely a start
linktv is a fringe statation so it is going to be tough, just like FSTV, which I watch all the time

what ever happened to the project that Al Gore was going to start?
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Roxy66 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 02:41 AM
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7. I was wondering the same thing....where is Al?
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 02:54 AM
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8. Al Gore's project is NOT a news channel-it's a commercial youth network
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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 12:04 PM
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29. Al Gore's "Current" TV channel start Aug. 1, 2005 (nt)
nt
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pbartch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 01:50 AM
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4. thanks for posting!!
I will be watching out for this!!
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DisassemblingHisLies Donating Member (273 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 02:05 AM
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5. Excellent!
Be sure to check this out: http://www.iwtnews.com/node/389
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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 02:49 PM
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35. Welcome to DU DisassemblingHisLies - Great Name!
Very good sig line, too - I saw posts yesterday asking where it would be learned the answer from your sign line. Thanx!

:kick:
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DisassemblingHisLies Donating Member (273 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 04:29 PM
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38. TY, Indy.
You can bet your boots that Ft. Bragg was chosen because it happens to be in Walter "Freedom Fries" Jones' home state - the one who is now pushing for the withdrawal of troops.
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kansasblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 02:12 AM
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6. And take a look at it's board!
It looks great. I wish they could start it sooner.

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dbt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 05:21 AM
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9. Kick!
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:57 AM
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11. We Need These Various Groups To Coordinate
There's several groups all trying to launch the ultimate alternative television or radio network...and I strongly encourage this...but seems each person has their own idea of what alternative is and communications and coordination gets bogged down...so do money issues.

Here's hoping that some of the spirit of the St. Louis conference resonates and groups work closer together. A well-organized "free press" and counter-culture broadcasting in the 60's and early 70's was a key source of unity and strength...I'm hoping to see the same rise again.
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Jensen Donating Member (866 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:14 AM
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12. Best News In a long time...
I'm in, done and kick!
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La Coliniere Donating Member (581 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:16 AM
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13. Brings a Sunday morning smile
to my face. Can't wait.
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 09:12 AM
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14. Just take a look at who is involved
Again--Here is the link:

http://www.iwtnews.com/

Our Team
Independent World Television includes a Founding Committee of leading journalists, community leaders & media reformers, a Board of Directors, Staff, and Consultants.
FOUNDING COMMITTEE
Paul Jay (Canada), founding Chair of IWTnews. He was Creator and Executive Producer of CBC Newsworld's debate program counterSpin. He is also an award winning documentary filmmaker and founding Chair of Hot Docs!, the Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. www.jfilm.org

Laszlo Barna (Canada), CEO of Barna-Alper Productions, Chair of the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association and a past board member of the Canadian Television Fund.

Odelia Bay (Canada), a freelance journalist, radio broadcaster and CBC television news producer.

Medea Benjamin (USA), Leading peace activist, cofounder of the human rights group “Global Exchange” and the women’s peace group “Code Pink.” Helped form the “United for Peace and Justice” coalition. Her work focuses on unfair global trade policies and promoting "fair trade" alternatives.

Tony Benn (UK), for fifty years a Labour MP, served as Cabinet Minister and Chairman of the Labour Party. Benn is Chair of the UK anti-war coalition and spoke at the massive London rally against war in Iraq. www.tonybenn.com

Phyllis Bennis (USA), author and fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C. and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. www.ips-dc.org

Charles Benton (USA), Chair of the Benton Foundation. A former Chair of the National Commission on Libraries and Information and the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters. www.benton.org

George Biggar (Canada), Vice President of Policy, Planning and External Relations for Legal Aid Ontario.

Larry Birns (USA), Director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a research group that has monitored U.S.-Latin American relations, since 1975. He is a former defence researcher and member of the Institute for Strategic Studies in London, and public affairs officer for the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America. www.coha.org

Robert Blair (Canada), President of Photon Control Inc., he is past Chair of Nova Corporation, Husky Petroleum and Foothills Pipeline and was appointed as an Officer (1990), and subsequently Companion (1995), of the Order of Canada.

Val Blokowski (Canada), former CBC Newsworld's Business Manager, Executive Director of the Education Network of Ontario and IWTnews planning study consultant on Business Models.

Jack Blum (USA), lawyer, as Senate attorney investigated BCCI and Lockheed Aircraft's overseas bribes. He is a consultant to the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations and the UN Office of Drug Control and Crime Prevention.

Salih Booker (USA), Executive Director of Africa Action, he directed the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies Program, served on staff at the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the US Congress, and was an Associate Director for the Catholic Relief Services' Southern Africa Office. www.africaaction.org

Tanja Bosch (South Africa), station manager of Bush Radio in Cape Town, Africa’s oldest community radio station. She completed her PhD in Mass Communication as a Fulbright Scholar at Ohio University with a dissertation on community radio and community identity in South Africa.

Helen Caldicott, MD (Australia), pediatric physician and President, Nuclear Policy Research Institute. Recipient of the Lannan Foundation 2003 Prize for Cultural Freedom. Named as one of the most influential women of the 20th Century by the Smithsonian Institute.

Ben Cashdan (South Africa), author, lecturer, documentary filmmaker, was an economic advisor in the office of President Nelson Mandela. He produces films for SABC, BBC and Channel Four.

John Cherian (India), journalist and Deputy Editor of Frontline, India's largest English language national magazine. www.flonnet.com

Jeff Chester (USA), Executive Director of the Center for Digital Democracy in Washington DC. Chester created Ralph Nader's Teledemocracy Project on cable TV reform, and co-founded the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression as well as the Center for Media Education. www.democraticmedia.org

Afsan Chowdhury (Bangladesh), Director of Advocacy and Human Rights at BRAC in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Development work and journalism with UNICEF, BBC, CNN, and Deutsche Welle. He studied the impact of satellite TV with the Media South Asia Project.

Jeff Cohen (USA), founder of FAIR, the New York-based media watch organization. He has been a commentator on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, and senior producer on MSNBC's "Donahue." He is an IWTnews consultant on developing its carriage campaign.

John Connolly (USA), national president of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. His thirty-year acting career includes appearances in television, feature films, and Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theatre.

Mark Cooper (USA), Director of Research at the Consumer Federation of America. He has published numerous articles on telecommunications and the media.

Paul Copeland (Canada), lawyer, is a Bencher (director) of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1990, is currently a director of the Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted, a member of Law Union of Ontario, and was a member of the International Commission of Jurists.

Mary Cornish (Canada), senior partner in a leading Canadian public interest law firm. As an international consultant, she has advised the World Bank, European Economic Community and Swedish and New Zealand governments.

Brad deGraf (USA), an entrepreneur and strategist at the intersection of digital media, international finance and social change. Besides founding two seminal digital animation studios, he is the founder of Media Venture Collective, and advises international aid agencies on digital animation in developing countries.

John Duncan (Canada), lawyer, represents domestic and foreign television and film producers in all aspects of development, production and exploitation, with particular expertise in the areas of international co-production, production financing and rights acquisition.

David Fenton (USA), founder and Chair of Fenton Communications, developing public relations campaigns for public interest groups. Formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine, he was named “one of the 100 most influential P.R. people of the 20th Century” by PR Week.

Bob Fertik (USA), President of Democrats.com. He is the co-founder of the Pro-choice Resource Center, Eleanor's List, Political Woman Newsletter, Women Leaders Online, and the Women's Voting Guide. www.democrats.com

Larry Fink (USA), has been photographing for over 40 years and shown widely since the early 1970s. He has had one-person exhibitions at major venues including MOMA (1979) and Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC (1997) and internationally, as well as receiving two Guggenheim fellowships and two NEA grants.

Laura Flanders (USA), Air America radio host and journalist. She is the author of Real Majority, Media Minority: The Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting. Flanders was the Founding Director of the Women's Desk at the media-watch group FAIR. www.lauraflanders.com

Bill Fletcher Jr. (USA), President and Chief Executive Officer of TransAfrica Forum. Bill was formally the Vice President for International Trade Union Development Programs for the George Meany Center / National Labor College of the AFL-CIO. www.transafricaforum.org

Linda Foley (USA), President of The Newspaper Guild, Vice President of the Communications Workers of America, Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO's Department for Professional Employees and Vice President of the International Federation of Journalists.

Janeane Garofalo (USA), Air America radio host, comedian, actress, activist and political commentator. Film credits include Reality Bites, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Larger Than Life and Mystery Men. She is a member of Win Without War, MoveOn.org, and the Policy Think Tank 18to25.com. www.airamericaradio.com/shows/majorityreport

Lila Garrett (USA), was So. Ca. Chair of the Kucinich Campaign for President and has been President of So. Ca. Americans for Democratic Action. She hosts political radio talk show Connect The Dots on Pacifica’s KPFK and is an award-winning TV writer, producer, and director. In 1996 she received the Eleanor Roosevelt Lifetime Achievement Award.

Amy Goodman (USA), host and Executive Producer of Democracy Now!, a TV and radio show she helped launch in 1996. She began her career in community radio at Pacifica’s WBAI in New York and produced their Evening News for ten years. www.democracynow.org

Ferial Hafferjee (South Africa), editor, Mail & Guardian Newspaper, and a leading political commentator.

Ron Haggart (Canada), was Co-Executive Producer on Face Off and counterSpin for CBC Newsworld. He worked as a Vancouver Sun reporter, columnist with The Globe and Mail, and Executive Producer of Local Informational Programming for CityTV and Senior Producer of the fifth estate on CBC.

Adrian Harewood (Canada), a Toronto based writer and broadcaster. He hosts the television programs The Directors, Literati and The Actors and was a host of CBC Newsworld's counterSpin.

Buzz Hargrove (Canada), National President of the Canadian Auto Workers Union. He is also Vice-President of the Canadian Labour Congress executive committee and co-author of Labour of Love: The Fight to Create a More Humane Canada.

Sheri Herndon (USA), served as News Director at KCMU Public Radio in Seattle, and is co-founder of the Independent Media Center in Seattle. There she developed the Indymedia network's communications and governance structures and managed internal policy development, legal and network collaboration projects.

Roger Hickey (USA), co-director of the Campaign for America's Future. One of the founders of the Economic Policy Institute and the San Francisco Public Media Center. Former media director for the National Center for Economic Alternatives.

Jesse Hirsch (Canada), founder of the Media Collective, TAO (tao.ca), and director of Openflows.org, a professional services firm specializing in free software for open source intelligence.

Tom Hurwitz (USA), documentary director of photography. Films he has shot have won four Academy Awards, over a dozen Emmy Awards and the Camera D'Or at Cannes. His credits include Harlan County USA.

Zane Ibrahim (South Africa), Managing Director of Bush Radio, “mother” of community radio in South Africa.

Janine Jackson (USA), Program Director of the national media watch-group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) and co-hosts and produces FAIR's syndicated radio show, CounterSpin. www.fair.org/counterspin

Peter Jenner (UK), President of Sincere Management and Secretary General of the International Music Managers' Forum. After lecturing at the London School of Economics, he managed many music acts including Pink Floyd and Billy Bragg.

Mark Karlin (USA), founder and publisher of BuzzFlash.com, a pro-democracy news and commentary Internet site that draws up to 5 1/4 million visitors a month. www.buzzflash.com

Allan King (Canada), acclaimed filmmaker whose films include Warrendale and Dying at Grace. Formerly the President of the Directors Guild of Canada.

Naomi Klein (Canada), journalist and author of the best-seller No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies and Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate. She writes syndicated columns for The Globe and Mail, The Guardian and The Nation magazine. www.nologo.org

Dr. Tawana Kupe (South Africa), Head of Media Studies at the Wits University's School of Literature and Language Studies. Taught Media and Communication Studies since 1993 at the University of Zimbabwe, University of Oslo, in Norway and at the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University, in South Africa.

Lewis Lapham (USA), editor of Harper's Magazine, has several books of essays to his credit including Money and Class in America, Hotel America and Waiting for the Barbarians. www.harpers.org

Avi Lewis (Canada), broadcast journalist, documentary filmmaker (The Take), host and producer of counterSpin on CBC Newsworld, where he presided over more than 500 televised debates.

Stephen Lewis (Canada), the United Nations' Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. From 1984 to 1988 he served as Canada's Ambassador to the United Nations, and he is the former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF. He heads The Stephen Lewis Foundation, dedicated to easing the pain of HIV/AIDS in Africa.

Joanne St. Lewis (Canada), assistant law professor at the University of Ottawa and founding Director of the Law Faculty's Education Equity Program. A Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada and was co-chair of the Canadian Bar Association Working Group on Racial Equality.

Mark Lloyd (USA), Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and teaches communications policy at the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute. A communications attorney and former broadcast producer at NBC and CNN, he co-founded the Civil Rights Forum on Communications Policy.

Hanadi Loubani (Canada), a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at York University, Toronto. Her creative and critical essays are published in Fuse Magazine, Anthology of the Poetry of Arab Women in North America, and the Women and War Journal.

Paul Maslin (USA), pollster and strategist for “Dean for America”, internet-based fundraising consultant and pollster for IWTnews’s planning study.

Robert McChesney (USA), founder and President of Free Press, an American non-profit, media reform organization. He is a Professor at the University of Illinois and the author or editor of eight books on the media and democracy. www.robertmcchesney.com

Judith McCormack (Canada), adjunct law professor and Executive Director of Downtown Legal Services, a clinical education program at the University of Toronto. She is a former Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board. Recipient of the Ontario Law Society Medal for outstanding service in the highest ideals of the profession.

Nicco Mele (USA), Howard Dean's campaign webmaster and internet strategist. Was webmaster at Common Cause and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. Named one of America 's "best and brightest" by Esquire magazine in December 2003.

Jyoti Mistry (South Africa), filmmaker and senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and Head of Television at the Wits School of Arts.

Andre Morriseau (Canada), broadcast journalist, Aboriginal Voices Radio Network (AVR), and producer/host, Nation 2 Nation. Former chair for the imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival, world Indigenous film festival.

Mishuk Munier (Bangladesh/Canada), filmed throughout South East Asia as a news and documentary cameraman for BBC World Service, ARD1 and Fox/StarTV. Head of News Operations for the first private terrestrial network in Bangladesh, Ekushey TV (ETV) and taught broadcast journalism at the University of Dhaka.

David Newman (Israel), professor of Political Geography and a Senior Research fellow at Ben Gurion University in Israel, where he founded the department of Politics and Government. Editor of the International Journal, Geopolitics, and former columnist for the Jerusalem Post.

John Nichols (USA) – Washington correspondent for The Nation, associate editor of The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin, and co-founder of Free Press. Nichols has covered four U.S. presidential elections, along with elections and political activism in Britain, Ireland, Israel, India, Palestine, El Salvador, Jamaica and South Africa. He is the author, with Bob McChesney, of It's the Media, Stupid and Jews for Buchanan.

Debbie Nightingale (Canada), runs a Toronto production company. She was Assistant Programmer at C Channel, Canada’s first cultural pay television station. She was also Special Projects and Development Officer at the Ontario Film Development Corporation and founding Executive Director of the Hot Docs! documentary festival.

Maureen O'Donnell (Canada), was Director of Communications for the Toronto International Film Festival and Director of Television Publicity for the CBC and is an expert in strategic communications planning and marketing.

David Ostriker (Canada), was Head of Business Affairs for counterSpin, on CBC Newsworld. Ostriker served on the executive committee of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and is a past Chair of the Canadian Independent Film Caucus.

Greg Palast (USA), author and investigative journalist (New York Times bestseller The Best Democracy Money Can Buy) and broadcast journalist with BBC's Newsnight. www.gregpalast.com

Leo Panitch (Canada), Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto. Author of Global Capitalism and American Empire.

Robert Parry (USA), a renowned investigative reporter who exposed the Iran-Contra scandal while working at Associated Press, founder of the Internet's first investigative Zine, Consortiumnews.com, and author of four books, including Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq.

Francine Pelletier (Canada), independent documentary filmmaker and screenwriter, former host of CBC's flagship current affairs show, the fifth estate.

Sharmini Peries (Canada/Venezuela), foreign policy advisor to the President of Venezuela, former Director of Justice International, Managing Director of Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Network and covered economic and political issues for Frontline India.

Greg Philo (UK), professor of communications and Research Director of the Glasgow University Media Group. Co-author of the books Bad News, More Bad News, Really Bad News on media issues such as television coverage of the developing world and audience reception of television news. www.gla.ac.uk/departments/sociology/units/media.htm

Anne Pick (Canada), independent producer, director, was with CBC, was a founding member of Hot Docs! and spent ten years on the executive board of the Documentary Organization of Canada.

Sarah Pillsbury (USA), is co-founder of the Liberty Hill Foundation and Development Director for the Center for Nonprofits and Voting. She serves on the board of directors of Artists for a New South Africa and the advisory board of the Center for Creative Voices in Media. She is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning producer whose credits include Desperately Seeking Susan, River’s Edge and How To Make An American Quilt.

Chellie Pingree (USA), President of Common Cause, a non-partisan citizen activists group with nearly 300,000 members and supporters and 38 state organizations. She is a former member of the Maine Senate. www.commoncause.org.

Michael Ratner (USA), President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York. Taught at Yale Law School, lectured at Columbia Law School, and was President of the National Lawyers Guild. www.ccr-ny.org

Elliot Richmond (Canada), Chartered Accountant, leading the entertainment practice at Horwath Orenstein in Toronto, where he is a partner.

Bill Roberts (Canada), President and CEO of VisionTV. Previously was Secretary General of the North American Broadcasters Association (NABA), Senior Director-General of International Affairs of TVOntario and managed the secretariat of the World Broadcasting Unions.

Kenneth Roth (USA), Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, a post he has held since 1993. The largest U.S.-based international human rights organization, Human Rights Watch investigates reports on, and seeks to curb human rights abuses in some 70 countries. www.hrw.org

Michael Saykaly (Canada), President and Research Director of Optima Research, served as Vice President of CROP, Le Centre de recherches sur l'opinion publique, is the author of The Guide To Public Opinion Research and is advising IWTnews on its Planning Study.

Danny Schechter (USA), Founder and Executive Editor of MediaChannel and founder and Vice President/Executive Producer of Globalvision, Inc. A journalist on CNN and ABC, is the author of The More You Watch, The Less You Know, and Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception (book and film). www.mediachannel.org

Jonathan Schell (USA), writer and journalist, Peace and Disarmament Correspondent for The Nation magazine, a fellow at the Nation Institute, visiting lecturer at the Yale Law School, was a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine from 1967 to 1987, author of The Fate of the Earth, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Stephanie Schriock (USA), National Finance Director for the Howard Dean Presidential Campaign, and previously served at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee as Director of Campaign Assistance. She is lead consultant for IWTnews on fundraising issues.

Andrew Jay Schwartzman (USA), President and CEO of the Media Access Project, a public interest telecommunications law firm that promotes the public's First Amendment right to hear and be heard on electronic media. www.mediaaccess.org.

Peter Scowen (Canada), Ideas editor, Toronto Star, was Editor-in-Chief of two weekly alternative newspapers (Hour and The Mirror, both in Montreal), and covered Quebec's National Assembly for CBC Radio. Author of Rogue Nation: The America the Rest of the World Knows.

Dimape Serenyane (South Africa), a principle in Herdbuoys McCann-Erickson, one of the most dynamic forces in the local advertising industry.

Monique Simard (Canada), heads Productions Virage, Vice-President of Cinémathèque Québécoise 's Board of Directors, and President of the board of directors for Alternatives, an international action and solidarity organization.

Norman Solomon (USA), author and syndicated columnist, including Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You. He is Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national consortium of policy researchers and analysts in the US, and an associate of the media watch group FAIR.

Kim Spencer (USA), President and co-founder of LINK TV, a 24-hour non-commercial, viewer-supported television channel in 25 million US homes. He has made documentary films and TV specials on global issues, and was a coordinating producer of ABC News Prime Time Live.

Jim Stanford (Canada), economist with the Canadian Auto Workers, author of Paper Boom: Why Real Prosperity Requires a New Approach to Canada's Economy and regular columnist with the Globe and Mail.

David J. Theroux (USA), founder and President of the Independent Institute in Oakland, and publisher of The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy.

Jenny Toomey (USA), Executive Director of the Future of Music Coalition, activist, musician. Co-ran Simple Machines independent record label. Former writer for The Washington Post, Village Voice and CNET.

Siddharth Varadarajan (India), journalist and commentator and Deputy Editor of The Hindu, was columnist with The Times of India. After studying economics at the London School of Economics and Columbia University, he taught at New York University for several years before joining The Times of India as an editorial writer in 1995.

Gore Vidal (USA), author of twenty-two novels, five plays, many screenplays and short stories, more than two hundred essays and a memoir. In 1993, a collection of his criticism, United States: Essays 1952-1992, won the National Book Award. He has written many films including the classics Ben-Hur (1959) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). He received an award from the Cannes Film Festival for best screenplay for The Best Man.

Kenneth Walker (South Africa/USA), owner of Lion House Productions. Previously the Africa Bureau Chief for National Public Radio. Covered the White House for the Washington Star and ABC News and anchored USA Today: The Television Show.

Patrick Watson (Canada), a writer, director, actor, TV host and interviewer, was co-producer of the CBC series Close-up and produced and hosted CBC's flagship show This Hour Has Seven Days. Watson is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a former Chairman of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Celia Wexler (USA), Vice President for Advocacy for Common Cause. A former journalist, Wexler has played a key role in developing Common Cause's lobbying and grassroots strategies on media reform.

Haskell Wexler (USA), has earned five Academy Award nominations and two Oscars for Best Cinematography. He was the fourth cinematographer to receive a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Wexler also writes, directs, and produces his own films, including 1969’s Medium Cool, a controversial look at the strife surrounding the anti-war movement and the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Bill Zimmerman (USA), political consultant who produced all advertising commissioned by MoveOn.org in 2004. www.zimark.com

Howard Zinn (USA), professor emeritus at Boston University, historian, author of numerous books including the classic A People's History of the United States and The Zinn Reader.

(Note: organizations listed are for identification purposes only)

BOARD
Paul Jay (Canada), IWTnews Chair. Creator and Executive Producer of CBC Newsworld's debate program counterSpin. Award winning documentary filmmaker and founding Chair of Hot Docs!, the Canadian International Documentary Film Festival.

Laura Flanders - Public radio host, journalist and author

Judith McCormack - University of Toronto law professor; former Chair of Ontario Labour Relations Board

Mishuk Munier - Helped establish Bangladesh’s first private terrestrial network, Ekushey TV (ETV); taught broadcast journalism at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

David Ostriker - Former Head of Business Affairs for CBC Newsworld’s counterSpin; past Chair of the Canadian Independent Film Caucus

Anne Pick - Award-winning independent producer, director and writer

Michael Ratner - President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

Jonathan Schell - Award-winning journalist and author

STAFF
Paul Jay, Chair
Creator and Executive Producer of CBC Newsworld's debate program counterSpin. Award winning documentary filmmaker and founding Chair of Hot Docs!, the Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. www.jfilm.org
contact@IWTnews.com

Val Blokowski, Business Manager
Val Blokowski served as Business Manager at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Newsworld channel for eight years. His expertise includes new media content and Internet applications, TV broadcasting and film production. He holds an MBA from Queen’s University.
val@IWTnews.com

Anna Isacsson, Project Coordinator
Taking leave from Doctoral studies in Social and Political Thought at York University, Anna has worked as a documentary film researcher / coordinator and has published on film and gender. Her responsibilities include project management and assisting the Chair.
anna@IWTnews.com

Saira Peesker, Project Coordinator
A print journalist and former city news reporter, Saira has been searching for an independent network since completing journalism and political science at Montreal's Concordia University. Her responsibilities include media contacts, project management, and assisting the Chair.
saira@IWTnews.com

Matt Thompson, Producer & Internet Director
A writer and former CBC producer, Matt’s responsibilities include web strategy & content, editing the IWTnews blog, and managing outreach with online partners. He also advises on network branding and programming.
matt@IWTnews.com

CONSULTANTS
Stephanie Schriock, Sr. Fundraising Consultant - National Finance Director for the Howard Dean Presidential Campaign. Former Director of Campaign Assistance at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Nicco Mele, Online Strategy Consultant - Howard Dean's campaign webmaster and internet strategist. Former webmaster at Common Cause and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. Named one of America's "best and brightest" by Esquire magazine in 2003.

Jeff Chester, Transmission / Carriage Consultant - Executive Director of the Center for Digital Democracy in Washington, D.C. Created Ralph Nader's Teledemocracy Project on cable TV reform. Co-founded the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression and the Center for Media Education.

Mark Cooper, Transmission / Carriage Consultant - Director of Research at the Consumer Federation of America. Has published on telecommunications and the media in trade and scholarly journals including recent law review articles on digital society issues.

Jeff Cohen, Transmission / Carriage Consultant - Founder of FAIR, the New York-based media watch organization. Has been a commentator on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, and senior producer on MSNBC's "Donahue."

Paul Maslin, Market Research Consultant - Pollster and strategist for the Howard Dean Presidential Campaign.

Again--Here is the link:

http://www.iwtnews.com/
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 11:36 AM
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24. Reading that list makes me absolutely freakin GIDDY!
Goodman, Gore, Zinn, Palast!
USA, UK Australia, South Africa, India, Canada, Isreal, Bangladesh, Venezuela!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

:applause: :applause: :applause:
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 11:57 PM
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47. Very impressive!
Edited on Sun Jun-26-05 11:59 PM by FreedomAngel82
I have faith in this company for sure with Laura Flanders, Jeanane, Howard Zinn, Greg Palast (my favorite!), Gore Vidal. Yay!
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 09:34 AM
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15. Be sure to watch the video and take the suvey




link at:

http://www.iwtnews.com/

SPREAD THE WORD:applause:
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:27 AM
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16. Here is a possible programming schedules


A primary source of international news, IWTnews Nightly will draw on reports from our own reporters and the world's best print and online journalists. The focus is on context -- today's events in light of root causes and historical perspectives. IWTnews also covers stories that don't make the news elsewhere, about the people and forces changing our world.
Criticize This! is a lively, balanced debate show on the day's major news story -- and how it was covered by the world’s media. Journalists, experts, and a studio audience from across the continent debate the quality, accuracy and depth of coverage –- including our own.

Citizen journalism from around the world. Citizen reporters upload video to our media center, where our professional editorial board vets their work. The best appears online and on TV. JPop pays for accepted pieces, develops emerging talent, and amplifies the growing citizen journalism movement.
Organize This! tells the stories of people fighting for their political and social interests. From across the political spectrum -- from workers, to environmentalists, to conservative think tanks -- this is a behind the scenes look at how and why people get organized.
Skewer features the best political satire from around the world. With brains and bite, the show will become a new addiction for Jon Stewart fans.
Environmental issues treated with the clarity, urgency and real science they deserve.
Issue-focused debate, stretching the limits of public discourse.
Feature length documentaries that combine journalism, art, and emotional impact in the way only great documentaries can.
The real stories behind global economic and trade policies -- and how real people are being affected by them.
Uncompromising investigative reports and documentaries that trace the underlying political, economic and social forces shaping current events.
Recent and classic films with social & political themes.
Stories from the developing world, as told by local film-makers, journalists and citizens.
Pop culture developments from around the world, featuring artists from the world's best theatre, film, music & visual arts.
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:48 AM
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17. Here is there plan
again the link is:

http://www.iwtnews.com/

Our Plan
With your help, IWTnews is well on the way toward launching a worldwide fundraising campaign in 2006. For the plan in detail, see our Development Plan (PDF) document.
Start-Up
Establish Board & Founding Committee
Secure seed funding
(from MacArthur, Ford & Phoebe Haas Trust Foundations & Canadian Auto Workers Union)
Establish non-profit companies in Canada & the United States

Produce detailed planning study & business plan

Launch IWTnews web site
Launch IWTnews web site
Premiere “Independent World Television: Birth of a Network” video
Launch IWTnews Blog

Build an online community of supporters
Grow an email list of IWTnews supporters
Spread the word through emails, blogs & meet-ups
Begin producing short news reports & regular web content
Launch first show: Criticize This!
Launch Worldwide Fundraising Campaign
Launch a world media event in 2006
Host concerts & events with celebrities, community leaders & media figuresin New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Dublin, Berlin, Sydney, New Delhi & Johannesburg
Generate international media coverage combined with grassroots organizing
Put out the call worldwide: “Tell the world you have a right to know! Help build Independent World Television!”
Inspire half a million people to contribute around $50
GO ON AIR!
Launch IWTnews programming on satellite, digital cable, public stations &
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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:50 AM
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18. And watch DVD - Orwell Rolls In His Grave to fully understand WHY
we NEED this!

SEE IT NOW at Information Clearing House:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8560.htm
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 11:40 AM
Response to Reply #18
25. what a coincidence--I have it on right now!
Actually I have seen it before...I reviewed it on Amazon and called it perhaps one of the most important films you may ever see.

again see the IWT website:

http://www.iwtnews.com/



Independent World Television is building the world’s first global independent news network. Online and on TV, IWTnews will deliver independent news and real debate from professional and citizen journalists -– without funding from governments, corporations or commercial advertising. Using the web to organize and raise funds across borders, IWTnews is building an international movement for democracy.

http://www.iwtnews.com/
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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 12:40 PM
Response to Reply #25
30. I watched it last night - was really depressed so glad you posted this
info today. I watched the video, took the survey and forwarded the info to friends. That made me feel much better and hopeful.
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Daphne08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 11:07 AM
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19. Sounds great!
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CantGetFooledAgain Donating Member (635 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 11:12 AM
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20. Woo-Hoo!
This is long, long overdue.
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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 11:15 AM
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21. Done, done, and done. nt.
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Ouabache Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 11:17 AM
Response to Original message
22. right, which NY LA and Chicago tv stations
will be showing it, which I won't be able to get. Oh gee, five (5) of them?

How nice.

That is always the way these things go.
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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 12:03 PM
Response to Reply #22
28. There will be a webcast, too (nt)
nt
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 11:20 AM
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23. done! done! done!
This is exactly what we need!

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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 12:01 PM
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26. wow
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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 12:02 PM
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27. I donated
with the link on the top right of...


http://www.iwtnews.com /
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i have issues Donating Member (451 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 01:22 PM
Response to Reply #27
31. This is Super.
Donated. kick to the top.
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 01:42 PM
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32. Watch the 15 Min- Birth of a Network Video




Here is the link for the videos:

http://www.iwtnews.com/video
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Bill219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 02:03 PM
Response to Reply #32
33. thanks for the info..
just donated $100.00 by clicking on the donation link
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 02:45 PM
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34. Here is the IWT Mission Statement
again their link is:

http://www.iwtnews.com/

Our Mission
The Problem
Serious news and full-spectrum debate -- on which democracy depends -- are disappearing from television. Across the globe, news media are concentrated in the hands of a few entertainment conglomerates whose interests determine news coverage. They promote superficial "infotainment" over tough investigation, context and holding authority accountable. Public broadcasters face shrinking budgets and growing political and commercial pressures.

The Solution
We need a news and current affairs network that defends the public interest and the highest standards of journalism. Independent World Television will be such a network, a non-profit broadcast service financed by viewers across the globe -- independent of corporate or government funding and commercial advertising.

Why now?
Before, there were no means to directly raise funds from people around the world. Now, the web allows millions to band together and raise capital to compete with corporate media outlets. Think of the 15 million people who demonstrated against war in Iraq on one day in 2003. Think of the internet fundraising successes of MoveOn.org and the Howard Dean presidential campaign. Members of the Dean fundraising operation are already on board.

The Launch Plan
The network is raising a $7 million start-up budget from individual donors and foundations. The MacArthur, Ford and Phoebe Haas Trust foundations and the Canadian Auto Workers Union have contributed to a planning study. In its next phase, IWTnews will build the online community necessary for an international mass fundraising campaign launching in early 2006. The campaign will use concerts and media events headlined by socially-conscious celebrities to drive the internet fundraising. If half a million people in the entire world contribute just $50, IWTnews will secure the $25 million it needs to fund its first year of broadcasting, in 2007.

The Programming
To be seen on satellite, digital TV and the web, IWTnews is also negotiating alliances with public and nonprofit channels to carry its programming. IWTnews will cover the big issues -- war and peace, political campaigns, environment, global economy, civil rights, labor issues and social policy. IWTnews will hire journalists for their experience, political acumen and understanding of history. Complex issues will be addressed with energy, bite and wit. Citizen journalism will bring insight from people around the world. Informed by a commitment to social justice and respecting diversity of opinion, IWTnews will focus on news other media ignore or suppress, and on individuals and groups that are transforming the world.



Independent World Television is building the world’s first global independent news network. Online and on TV, IWTnews will deliver independent news and real debate from professional and citizen journalists -– without funding from governments, corporations or commercial advertising. Using the web to organize and raise funds across borders, IWTnews is building an international movement for democracy.


again their link is:

http://www.iwtnews.com/

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snot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 03:05 PM
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36. KICK and nominating nt
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 03:44 PM
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37. watch the full--15 minute version of the video
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 04:29 PM
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39. spread the word....


http://www.iwtnews.com/


Here is the link to tell all your friends:

http://www.iwtnews.com/invite
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ms liberty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 04:50 PM
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40. WOW!
This is great! Wish I could donate, but I've been unemployed since 2 days after the reanointing of King W.

Kicked
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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 06:14 PM
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41. Please support (nt)
nt
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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:10 PM
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42. Guardian article
Edited on Sun Jun-26-05 08:13 PM by Eric J in MN
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,1510029,00.html/


An antidote to corporate television

Sean Dodson
Monday June 20, 2005
The Guardian

Billed as a leftwing contender to rival the might of CNN and Fox, and weighing in with a annual budget of just $25m, Independent World Television (IWT) plans to create a news network that will counter a corporate media culture that has become infamous for placing profits above the public interest. The mission is to convince an "internet army" of half a million donors to contribute $50 each to secure the $25m that the network needs to fund its first year of broadcasting. It is a big ask. The network will take no commercials, sponsorship or government funding. IWT plans to start broadcasting to more than 25m US homes by 2007.

The network is the vision of Paul Jay, the Toronto-based director of the award-winning documentary Return to Kandahar. "With the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, we saw much of television news at its very worst," he says. "What we need is a network where journalists don't need to worry about the interests of their ownership, about selling commercials nor worry about government funding or interference."

The network launched its website on Thursday. No rolling news yet, but there was a promotional video full of images from Iraq and Afghanistan and unflattering fragments of CNN coverage. It proclaimed: "If the ideals of freedom and liberty are to be more than empty rhetoric, people must form an educated opinion about the issues that concern them."

The station's 86-member advisory board includes some leading lights of the left. Naomi Klein, Gore Vidal, Tony Benn and Greg Philo of the Glasgow Media Group sit alongside chat show veteran Phil Donahue, the art photographer Larry Fink and Peter Jenner, the ex-manager of Pink Floyd.
========================================================
Regarding Donahue, I think they meant Jeff Cohen, a producer of the MSNBC show, not Phil Donhaue himself.

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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:45 PM
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43. They have a blog.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 11:37 PM
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44. I sent this to some friends.
I wonder how serious they are. Hopefully, very.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 11:50 PM
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46. I'm so excited about this!
Edited on Sun Jun-26-05 11:50 PM by FreedomAngel82
I hope it's available on regular cable networks cause I'd love to have this channel. Hopefully I can get my dad into buying it once it's ready. This is definitley what I'd love to have! All the programs look great!
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 12:42 AM
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48. see their blog
Here is the link for the IWT Blog:

http://www.iwtnews.com/blog
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In Truth We Trust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 01:30 AM
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49. kick for truth
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 02:38 AM
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50. SPREAD THE WORD!! SPREAD THE WORD!!! SPREAD THE WORD!!!!
Get this blasted throughout the blogosphere--

DU CAN MAKE A BIG-BIG DIFFERENCE!!

one of the most important projects EVER!!!

Again here is their link:

http://www.iwtnews.com/

TELL EVERYONE ON YOUR E-MAIL LIST AND ASK THEM TO PASS IT ON!!

Here is the link to invite friends:

http://www.iwtnews.com/invite




About IWTnews

Independent World Television is building the world’s first global independent news network. Online and on TV, IWTnews will deliver independent news and real debate from professional and citizen journalists -– without funding from governments, corporations or commercial advertising. Using the web to organize and raise funds across borders, IWTnews is building an international movement for democracy

Again here is the link:

http://www.iwtnews.com/


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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 07:23 AM
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51. kick
:o
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 08:23 AM
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52. Be sure to sign-up on their E-mail list
again--here is the link:

http://www.iwtnews.com/
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 09:08 AM
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53. kick
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 09:31 AM
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54. Thank you for posting. I commit my support.
We need an independent network "by the people"!!!! :bounce:
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TVTech Donating Member (10 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 09:35 AM
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55. I just volunteered my services...
I work in the television industry and I have long hoped that someone would do something like this.

My expertise is in the design and construction of broadcast and cable facilities. Looking over the info on their website, I believe that their budget and timeline are realistic. The biggest hurdle will be getting carriage on cable and satellite systems. I doubt they'll ever make it onto DirectTV (now owned by Rupert Murdoch), but the potential audience is large enough that Echo and the cable operators might take notice.

I also have some doubts as to the sustainability of such a venture without commercial support, but hey, we've gotta give it a try.

With that in mind, I just sent them an email offering my professional services (engineering consulting and design for master control and transmission) at no cost. This is something I believe very strongly in, and it seems like a perfect opportunity for me to do something tangible for the sake of truth in media.

I'll let you all know what kind of response I get.
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TVTech Donating Member (10 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 01:57 PM
Response to Reply #55
58. Received a Reply
And it looks like they might take me up on my offer when the time comes.

...oh, and bump!

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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 10:20 AM
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69. please keep us all informed about anything new...
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d_b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 09:51 AM
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56. Please oh Please let this beam
onto my screen!
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 10:06 AM
Response to Reply #56
57. yes, indeed--we ALL can help get this rolling
:applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause:
SPREAD THE WORD!!!:applause: SPREAD THE WORD!!!!:applause: SPREAD THE WORD!!!!:applause:



http://www.iwtnews.com/ :applause:

http://www.iwtnews.com/ :applause:

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http://www.iwtnews.com/ :applause::applause:

:applause: http://www.iwtnews.com/ :applause::applause:

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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 02:10 PM
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59. We need this to balance Fox! It's about time!
:kick:.....and God Bless These Patriots!

Clark 08'
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 11:49 PM
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60. See this latest article for International Journalist Network
Project offers global independent alternative to corporate television

Jun 27, 2005--the link for this article:

http://www.ijnet.org/FE_Article/newsarticle.asp?UILang=1&CId=303030&CIdLang=1

The link for IWT:

http://www.iwtnews.com /



A new online project has the ambitious aim of becoming the world’s first global, independent TV news network.

A team of experienced journalists mainly from Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. launched the project, called Independent World Television (IWT), on June 15. The team hopes to challenge concentrated, commercial television better serving democracy and the public interest.

The plan is to create a viable, nonprofit broadcast service, independent of corporate or government funding and commercial advertising.

After gaining enough visibility, the IWT team intends to launch an international mass fundraising campaign in early 2006. If they get enough support, the network will carry programs on topics such as war and peace, political campaigns, environment, global economy, civil rights, labor issues and social policy. IWT news will focus on information and groups that other media tend to ignore or suppress.

The organizers also are conducting a survey to gauge support and help guide their efforts. To take the survey, visit http://www.iwtnews.com/survey.

IWTnews: http://www.iwtnews.com/home.
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 01:04 AM
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61. .
:applause:
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 01:39 AM
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62. .
:beer:
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 01:49 AM
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63. Interesting, I'll look in to it, and get back to you.
Registrant:
independent world televison
21 Nassau St.
toronto, ontario M5T3K6
CA

Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: IWTNEWS.COM
Created on: 03-MAR-05
Expires on: 03-MAR-07
Last Updated on: 27-APR-05

Administrative, Technical Contact:
jay, paul pj@iwt.tv
independent world televison
21 Nassau St.
toronto, ontario M5T3K6
CA
4164072646


Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.SEF.PNAP.NET
NS2.SEF.PNAP.NET
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 07:11 AM
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65. please
let us know what you find out...
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 06:45 AM
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64. thanks--
again the website:

http://www.iwtnews.com/
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 09:40 AM
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66. kick
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 09:42 AM
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67. This is wonderful.
I have emailed this out to my friends.
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 10:11 AM
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68. help even further by inviting a friend --over 3,300 people have taken the
IWTnews survey breaks 3,000!Posted by IWTnews Staff on Jun 27, 11:39am.
Last week we asked for your help in spreading the word about our international survey on news, democracy, and our plan for a global independent news network. The results have smashed all expectations -- as of this morning, over 3,300 people have taken the survey and added their voice! You can help even further by inviting a friend to take it now!


Here is the link:

http://www.iwtnews.com/
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 10:30 AM
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70. IWT-- A Global Progressive CNN---See the Video/Learn More


http://www.iwtnews.com/

About IWTnews
Independent World Television is building the world’s first global independent news network. Online and on TV, IWTnews will deliver independent news and real debate from professional and citizen journalists -– without funding from governments, corporations or commercial advertising. Using the web to organize and raise funds across borders, IWTnews is building an international movement for democracy.

http://www.iwtnews.com/

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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 08:10 PM
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71. IWT-- the world’s first global independent news network-see the video
About IWTnews
Independent World Television is building the world’s first global independent news network. Online and on TV, IWTnews will deliver independent news and real debate from professional and citizen journalists -– without funding from governments, corporations or commercial advertising. Using the web to organize and raise funds across borders, IWTnews is building an international movement for democracy.

http://www.iwtnews.com/
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 08:27 PM
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72. IWT
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:37 PM
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73. IWTnews takes L.A.
IWTnews takes L.A.

the link:

http://www.iwtnews.com/


Posted by IWTnews Staff on Jun 22, 1:58pm.
IWTnews played to a packed house in L.A. Monday night, with what was meant to be a small gathering turning into a major event that drew over 200 Hollywood activists, actor and producers. Supporters squeezed in to see Birth of a Network and hear Gore Vidal and Paul Jay talk about news, democracy, and building the world's first global independent news network.

"When Dan Rather was asked to justify his network's poor coverage on the issue of Weapons of Mass Destruction," Paul gave as one example after the screening, "he said he 'gives the benefit of the doubt' to any President, Republican or Democrat, and doesn't apologize for that.'

http://www.iwtnews.com/

"Well, we need a TV network that doesn't give the benefit of the doubt to those in power, be they Republican or Democrat."

IWTnews Founding Committee member Joanne St. Lewis introduced Gore Vidal at Paul Alan Smith's home in West Hollywood. The event was covered by The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. Variety's photos of the event are here.
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 12:01 AM
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74. GO
go--go---go---go:

http://www.iwtnews.com /

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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 12:48 AM
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75. kick
I just want to make sure everybody hears about this

the link again:

http://www.iwtnews.com /

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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 12:53 AM
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76. Oh yeah baby!
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BigBearJohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 01:18 AM
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77. THIS is what I have been waiting for. I'm in. HIGHLY RECOMMEND
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 02:14 AM
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78. please spread the word to spread the word..
I hope others will also make postings about IWT with their website
http://www.iwtnews.com/ on DU and all over the web..and to everyone everyone knows...this can only work if lots of people get involved...

Again :applause: the website: http://www.iwtnews.com/ :applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause: http://www.iwtnews.com/ :applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause: http://www.iwtnews.com/ :applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause: http://www.iwtnews.com/ :applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause: http://www.iwtnews.com/ :applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause: http://www.iwtnews.com/ :applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause:applause::applause: http://www.iwtnews.com/
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 03:01 AM
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79. .
keep it going please and tell everyone to tell everyone
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 09:37 AM
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80. kick
kick again
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 09:50 AM
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81. IWT


ABOUT IWTNEWS
Independent World Television is building the world’s first global independent news network. Online and on TV, IWTnews will deliver independent news and real debate from professional and citizen journalists -– without funding from governments, corporations or commercial advertising. Using the web to organize and raise funds across borders, IWTnews is building an international movement for democracy.

http://www.iwtnews.com/
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 12:04 PM
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82. let's make this happen
Again here is the link:

http://www.iwtnews.com /
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BigBearJohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 01:10 PM
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83. Kick
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-05 12:36 PM
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84. Kick
:kick:
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