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Independent World Television Video Links and Highlights

** To find out more about Independent World Television (IWT), click the links below:**

NEW IWT FOUNDING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
IWT is pleased to announce the addition of Tom Fenton, Bryn Freedman, Shauna Sylvester, and Joe Trippi to our Founding Committee. Click here for their bios and background:
http://click.iwtnews.com/t?ctl=F473A2:3DE5A9D

IWTnews VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS
Pamela de Maigret, journalist, film-maker and Republican activist:
"I think you have to ask the question, do we have free elections in this country? I don't think we do.... This is one more of those stories that Independent World Television needs to stick with."
http://click.iwtnews.com/t?ctl=F473A2:3DE5A9D

Lewis Lapham, Harper's Editor:
"Television media isn't set up to appreciate dissent. It's a consumer product like soap, packaged to sell the most units to the most people."
http://click.iwtnews.com/t?ctl=F473A6:3DE5A9D

Laura Flanders, Air America Radio:
"The big issues of our time -- like global warming or peak oil -- are critical stories to the majority of people on the planet. And yet somehow they're not 'media friendly' because they don't have a hook this week, or a drama in Washington taking place around them."
http://click.iwtnews.com/t?ctl=F473A4:3DE5A9D

Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now! co-host:
"I think the creation of independent TV and broadcasting right now is at the heart of preserving democracy throughout the industrialized world."
http://click.iwtnews.com/t?ctl=F473A5:3DE5A9D

Robert McChesney, Free Press founder:
"Independent World Television can be one of the cornerstones of a democratic media system."
http://click.iwtnews.com/t?ctl=F473A1:3DE5A9D

Linda Foley, Newspaper Guild President:
"There are pressures in the newsrooms to cut back, to cut corners on journalism, both in terms of personnel and in how stories are pursued."
http://click.iwtnews.com/t?ctl=F473A7:3DE5A9D


Nicco Mele, EchoDitto CEO and Dean campaign webmaster:
"Independent World Television is an exciting way to break out of the way the media conglomerates, intentionally or unintentionally, editorially control content...."
http://click.iwtnews.com/t?ctl=F473A8:3DE5A9D

Joanne St. Lewis, University of Ottawa:
"The television media has to stop simply choosing the same experts -- it's about moving to a broader body politic."
http://click.iwtnews.com/t?ctl=F473A3:3DE5A9D


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posted by Annamarie at 7:07 PM