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Chuck D interviewed Paul Jay and Sharmini Peries
Meet the Man Trying To Change The Face of The American Media
Head of 'The Real News' network
Paul Jay is trying to save the news media, one viewer at a time.
Horrified at the corporate media's acquiescence to the White House
during 9/11 and the run up to the war in Iraq, Jay decided to set up
his own organization to provide the public with real, unadulterated
journalism that would effectively challenge power regardless of the
political environment.
"Go big or go home": Interview with Paul Jay, Part 1 of 5 The interview highlights the prehistory of IWT/TRN, the courageous TV network that will search out the truth and bring it to a worldwide audience, uncompromised by money from corporations, advertisers or governments.
Ad-free news covers the globe "What if there were a cable channel that married the best of PBS and CNN - that is, 24-hour world news with a global network of correspondents, but paid for by viewers rather than advertisers? That's the idea behind Independent World Television and its flagship show The Real News, the brainchild of Canadian TV producer Paul Jay."
Following the progress of IWT (Nanaimo, BC) Paul Jay elaborates on the vision and plans for The Real News to be launched in 2007; he introduces a new Video Interview with David Suzuki, featured on the website at www.iwtnews.com.The business plan of IWT notes "the perilous times we live in" and asserts that "Democracy depends on an informed public and a courageous press... We must not sleepwalk into war or tyranny.The world situation is too dangerous to not know the complexity of things. We need television journalism that dares to seek truth and does not bow to pressure. We need The Real News."
Can we have new TV?
LAURA FLANDERS, Host: "A conversation about what's possible and what you can do, with civil rights veteran James Early, an advisor for the new Latin American network Telesur, and Paul Jay, the founder of Independent World Television, a project that's trying to change the face of media."
Build it and they will watch?
"Fed up with the platitudinous news coverage he felt he was being fed by mainstream network and cable TV, documentary maker Paul Jay came up with an ambitious solution. In just over a year, the Toronto-based Jay plans to raise roughly $25-million to launch a new network, Independent World TV."
By the people, for the people
"Independent World Television wants to make media what it should be, $50 bucks at a time. Unless you‚ have been living at the bottom of a coalmine without a cable connection for the last five years, you already know that North America‚ as major news media are in trouble."
I want my IWT
"Sick of screaming at your TV when a news cable channel is on? Have no fear, IWT is here. Marty talks to Paul Jay, founder of the new international news network Independent World Television."
L'information a but non lucratif
"Une nouvelle chaine d'information internationale est
en gestation. Au nom de l'integrite journalistique et de la 'vraie' information, elle ne sera financee ni par les grandes societes ni par les gouvernements, mais par les telespectateurs eux-memes."
Vidal keen on news
"It was a tight squeeze inside agent Paul Alan Smith's BevHills high-rise for 'An Evening With Gore Vidal.' Some 200 guests, including Mace Neufeld, Roger Corman, Haskell Wexler and George Schlatter, crammed in to hear Vidal talk about what ails the world and how a few Canadians could make a difference."
Nascent IWT net would rely on subs
"In the next few rounds, Paul Jay is taking on such U.S. news-gathering giants as Fox News and CNN by launching in 2007 Independent World Television, a global news network funded by supporters, not corporations or commercial advertising. He was in Los Angeles Monday to attend a donor party hosted by Gore Vidal at the home of agent Paul Allen Smith."
An antidote to corporate television
"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."
DIY TV
"Most discussions of citizen journalism assume that the Internet is the best medium for people who want to come together to produce news stories. But a new media company has a vision that's more, well, visual: it hopes to bring the concept of citizen journalism to television."
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