Dean strategists involved in helping create left-wing CNN?

[shraby]

Independent World Television will go public on June 15. The goal, as bold as it is big, is to create an alternative news and current affairs network that is, as its name implies, global in reach and free from corporate or government pressures. The network’s success depends on changing the economics of media, with an audacious plan to raise $25 million a year made up of $50 donations from half a million people around the world. Money from business, advertisers and government will be prohibited.

<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/13/215918/015>

[goclark]

1. Please let it happen!

[hedda_foil]

2. When can I donate?

Point me in the right direction and my paypal account is theirs!

[zann725]

3. I hope Soros is on their "list."

n/t

[KC21304]

22. He can give his $50 like everyone else.

No businesses, politicians, etc.

[Selatius]

30. With the 50 dollar limit, you can't "buy it out" like CNN.

It would be the great equalizer, at least in theory. Soros would be treated the same as any worker who donated 50 dollars.

[NEOBuckeye]

4. Wow! So soon?

I wasn't expecting anything like this for another election cycle at best. All I can say is that it's about damn time! Good to see that Dean's people are involved as well.

This puts us one step further ahead towards taking back our media.

[Initech]

5. I'd watch it!

Screw Fox, CNN, MSNBC and CBS,

[Rosco T.]

6. I hope one/both of the Sat services carry it.. n/m

[Guaranteed]

7. Unbelievably beautiful idea.

Amanpour would jump at it I bet if she was offered.

I've got my 50 bucks right here. Let's do it.

[katinmn]

8. I saw a promo of this at the Media Conference in St. Louis

It's going to be great! Amy Goodman and others already doing non-commercial broadcast reporting are involved.

http://www.iwtnews.com/

[Gloria]

9. Wonder who will air it?? Certainly it won't be on our local

Comcast cable, which I am close to ditching. Will hold off until I find out more about this!!

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Please please please please please.

I can't wait for that leftwing librul media to slant my news for me.

[Cha]

15. :)

:toast:

[bling bling]

11. Looks like broadcasting begins in 2007.

Launch Plan

The network is raising a $7 million start-up budget from individual donors and foundations. MacArthur, Ford and Haas foundations have contributed to a planning study. In its next phase, IWTnews will launch its web site and build the online community necessary for the 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.

http://www.iwtnews.com/

edited to add link.

[fricasseed_gourmet_rat]

16. Ford?

Is that, like, the company that makes cars for fornicating sodomites? :-)

[sadiesworld]

12. Very cool.

:thumbsup:

[mandyky]

13. OK, these are former Dean ppl not the DNC

Go read the article.

[Kazak]

14. I've got fifty bucks for that!!!

You betcha!

[niallmac]

18. let the battle begin

:woohoo:

Wow. Wouldn't that be cool? I feel like someone just suggested we could actually destroy the Death Star. May the Force and my fifty bucks be with them.

[newyawker99]

36. Hi niallmac!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. This would be great! I would donate in a heartbeat!

Please, please, please! We need this desperately.

[Mr_Spock]

19. Huh? This is a great idea!

I hope it comes to fruition!

[AuntiBush]

20. Is this the one Gore has been working on?

[NYCGirl]

38. No. Gore's channel is not news — it's lifestyle for under 35 year olds...

here's a link:

http://current.tv/

[AuntiBush]

21. Oh, Good. Article stated it will be on "LinkTV!"

Can't come fast enough. Ob boy. "1" - shew, now we all know how it feels to be the majority-minority.

[kansasblue]

23. I thought Rawstory could be like this someday...

I just don't think Rawstory sees the full potential they could have like IWT does.

[Turn CO Blue]

24. I'm bookmarking this puppy... great idea! n/t

[dissent1977]

25. Yes, this is what I have been saying we needed for so long

finally commercial free news that isn't under the watch of the federal government. I really want to see this succeed.

[kimchi]

26. Sweet.

Fifty bucks is a tiny amount to BRING IT ON.

[Me.]

27. Beginning To Be Able To Breathe Again

After soooooo long, change appears to be on the horizon. Every day there is a glimmer of good news, Dean, the polls, pukes getting worried about the war etc., now this. I wonder if it will be available on Time-Warner or if that will have to be a campaign in and of itself.

[thereismore]

28. June 15 is the webside launch date. Life is good! nt

[BrightKnight]

33. You can donate now.

http://www.iwtnews.com/

The advisory committee list is very impressive. If this is what it appears to be they have my support.

[Selatius]

29. It almost resembles socialism in a way (That's NOT bad)

It comes closer to socialism than not because people are essentially pooling their resources together voluntarily for the same purpose, and given that the limit is 50 dollars for each individual, that would mean a multi-millionaire who owns a multinational corporation would not have any bigger voice when he donates 50 dollars than any worker who donates 50 as well.

Contrast that with, say, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX News. Those news networks' editorial direction are determined by a small and often elite class of owners. I think we get the point here.

The only question is who determines editorial direction in IWT? Do you get voting power if you donate? Can editors be recalled like delegates?

[DearAbby]

31. I have been dancing alot here lately....and it feeeeeels goooood!

Doing the Dear Abby Okie dokie dance...jiggling and wiggling!

:bounce:

[Douglas Carpenter]

32. The most wonderful news I have heard in a long time

Imagine--real news--what a strange concept

[Douglas Carpenter]

34. you can donate NOW and/ or subscribe to their E-mail list

:bounce: oh me I'm so happy about this

Here is the link:

http://www.iwtnews.com/

[Raksha]

35. WONDERFUL news!!! The best thing I've heard in a long time. n/t

[tk2kewl]

37. sad that an independent network not influenced by govt or corporations

and dedicated to truth is considered left-leaning

[seafan]

39. Some of the 80+ advisory council members:

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

http://www.iwtnews.com/