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New Videos, News Highlights from Independent World Television (IWT)

Check out these two exciting new videos:

Legendary author and IWT Founding Committee member Gore Vidal talks about television news and the state of democracy. "There are so many questions that television refuses to take up -- much less answer." Watch now here:
http://click.iwtnews.com/t?ctl=F5AAEF:3DE5A9D

And new IWT Founding Committee member and former CBS News Senior Foreign Correspondent Tom Fenton talks about the opportunity for IWT: "I'm convinced that there's a real audience out there for what I call 'real news.' News of context, news that tells people what's coming down the road, things that could affect their lives."
http://click.iwtnews.com/t?ctl=F5AAED:3DE5A9D

There's lots happening on our web site this week, with highlights below. Join the discussion happening on our blog, and please help spread the word by forwarding this message to others. Or use our "tell a friend" page here:
http://click.iwtnews.com/t?ctl=F5AAF2:3DE5A9D

IWTnews HIGHLIGHTS

"PURGING THE POOR" FROM NEW ORLEANS?
As an example of the kind of investigative reporting IWT will feature in our current affairs documentaries, author and IWT Founding Committee member Naomi Klein reports on the dramatic "demographic shift" taking place in New Orleans -- and explains how "70,000 of New Orleans' poorest homeless evacuees could move back to the city alongside returning white homeowners, without a single new structure being built."
http://click.iwtnews.com/t?ctl=F5AAEE:3DE5A9D

LOBBYISTS ADVISE KATRINA RECONSTRUCTION ACT.
The Louisiana Katrina Reconstruction Act included "billions of dollars' worth of business" for the clients of lobbyists who sat on an advisory panel to Louisiana's senators, according to the L.A. Times. One advisory panel member is calling it "a huge injustice" to the state.
http://click.iwtnews.com/t?ctl=F5AAF0:3DE5A9D

HAITI: POSTPONED ELECTIONS & GROWING VIOLENCE.
"Iraq's election morass is modest compared to Haiti's," Council on Hemispheric Affairs President Larry Birns says. And Znet's Aaron Mate details the growing list of recent killings involving Haiti's National Police and United Nations forces.
http://click.iwtnews.com/t?ctl=F5AAF1:3DE5A9D

Paul Jay, Chair
Independent World Television
www.IWTnews.com

posted by Annamarie at 1:52 AM