Hmm. looks like a pretty cool site, Adam.  Are you involved with the IWT project?
 
I'm wondering things like "will each program have an RSS feed so that I can download them in ant and watch them on my own schedule rather than a set programming schedule"  and "how would each episode be licensed?"
 
For example, the "in brief" video was really great ...  if I wanted to include that vid on my site or in my feed to help spread the word ... well I wouldn't normally want to do that unless it was stated somewhere that that right was granted.  Or, once they are fully operational if a 30sec clip from one of their shows inspires me to action ... am I free to use that clip? etc etc
 
Anyway - looks awesome thanks for the link - will give it more thorough look this weekend.
 
- Dave
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On 10/7/05, Adam Quirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Americans, please watch this:
http://www.iwtnews.com/videoplayer/laura_flanders

Most Americans (not you guys, of course) probably don't realize how much of the news they hear/see/read is dictated by the advertisers.

I'm not sure if this applies as much to other countries, where the news channels are publicly owned entities and do not subsist on advertising revenues.  Correct me if I'm wrong.

Here's some more links:

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://www.iwtnews.com/videoplayer/pamela_de_maigret

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://www.iwtnews.com/videoplayer/lewis_lapham

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://www.iwtnews.com/videoplayer/laura_flanders

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://www.iwtnews.com/videoplayer/juan_gonzalez

Robert McChesney, Free Press founder:
"Independent World Television can be one of the cornerstones of a democratic media system."
http://www.iwtnews.com/videoplayer/robert_w_mcchesney

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://www.iwtnews.com/videoplayer/linda_foley

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://www.iwtnews.com/videoplayer/linda_foley

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://www.iwtnews.com/videoplayer/joanne_st_lewis

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