[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Lewis Lapham on advise com.

[Al Kagan]

FYI.  This was discussed at the UIUC media conference.

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>
> 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.
>
>
> Diaries :: tribe34's diary :: :: Trackback ::
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> The creator of this is Paul Jay, who was a former excutive producer of 
> CBC Newsworld's debate program "CounterSpin".
>
> According to the article, IWTNews is aiming to get its own digital TV 
> channels in Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere. Programming will also  be 
> offered at their  web site. The article says that  Link TV will carry 
> IWT programming. "ensuring that 25 million U.S. home will have access 
> to IWT shows".
>
> Here's one interesting statement in the article that really caught my 
> eye:
>
> ...They would use the Internet -- which allows millions of people to 
> band together – to raise the money. Jay has brought on board key 
> strategists from the Howard Dean presidential campaign who were 
> astonishingly successful in raising millions of dollars in small 
> amounts over the Internet.
>
> The article doesnt really state if they are former or current 
> strategists... but whoever they are, they want that expertise of 
> fundraising over the internet to help them get started.
>
> The article lists a pretty impressive list of who's who on the 
> advisory committee of IWT:
>
> The 98-member IWT advisory committee reads like a who’s who of 
> progressive left activism and journalism, especially from the US. The 
> list includes Lewis Lapham of Harper’s Magazine, Gore Vidal, Jeff 
> Cohen, Laura Flanders and Janine Jackson from Fairness and Accuracy in 
> Reporting, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, and Janeane Garofalo of Air 
> America.
>
> Among the 35 Canadians on the committee are familiar names like 
> Patrick Watson, Bill Roberts of Vision TV, Naomi Klein, Avi Lewis, 
> Stephen Lewis and filmmaker Alan King. From other countries the 
> advisory board contains people like investigative journalist Greg 
> Palast, anti-nuclear armaments activist Helen Calidicott, and former 
> U.K. Labour Minister Tony Benn.
>
> And what of its plans? Fairly modest for the moment:
>
> Sample programming consists of six hours of programs five days a week. 
> These include one hour of citizen journalism from around the world, 
> the evening news, an issue-focused debate show, a show in which 
> journalists and experts analyze the day’s major stories, an 
> investigative program, feature-length documentaries, a show on the 
> global political economy, political satire, issues from the south, 
> environmental issues and a show profiling how people have organized 
> their campaigns.
>
> If you want to look at its prospectus and think its worthy enough to 
> donate to the cause, go to its main website here.
>
> Update [2005-6-13 22:12:19 by tribe34]:
>
> I was asked about who the Dean people (or former Dean people) are on 
> this group.. Here are some from the website that I can find:
>
> Paul Maslin (USA), pollster and strategist for “Dean for America”, 
> internet-based fundraising consultant and pollster for IWTnews’s 
> planning study."
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
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Al Kagan
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