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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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Human Rights in Ireland
Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

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A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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New analysis suggests Labour's tax on private schools could bring in less than half the expected amount because of the extra cost of adding more students to the state system.
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A far-Left group has claimed responsibility for crippling Paris's rail network with arson attacks, stranding 800,000 passengers, just before the Olympic opening ceremony.
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A radical cleric has raised over £3 million to transform a remote Scottish island into a self-governing Islamic state with its own army, justice system, school and hospital.
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Independent World Television?

category international | arts and media | other press author Thursday September 09, 2004 18:38author by redjade Report this post to the editors

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Independent World Television?

There's a proposal from a bunch of big name media activists and left leaning journalists to start, Independent World Television [ http://www.iwt.tv/ ], international progressive television news network. They aim to raise a fair amount of money, 100 million dollars, and have a professional staff of journalists while drawing on some AP and/or Reuters footage.

It seems like it's a cross between a progressive english language version of Al-Jazeera and a TV version of IPS.

The general drive seems to get alternative content out there to an audience, not change the relationships around which media production and consumption are built. This is quite different from the 'media revolution to make revolution possible' and 'become the media' missions of indymedia. I bet the two will co-exist similarly to the sometimes tense, sometimes cooperative relationship between democracy now and indymedia.

What i do wonder, is this. Is this the best strategy at the moment? Aren't we about to see a revolution in the way TV is transmitted similar to what is happening with VOIP in the telephony world? Will the 24 hour news channel go the way of the evening news? What are the implications to ubiquitous bandwidth, narrowcasting, very low cost barriers to entry for production, and the end of broadcast television?

more info and links at....

Related Link: http://www.anarchogeek.com/archives/000435.html
author by monducheapublication date Thu Sep 09, 2004 21:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Who will they get to carry their news channel?
I mean most of the major satellite and cable networks are corporate run, so if the station presented any ideological threat, I can easily see the big media kahuna's giving a nod of the head and the channel finding no one to carry it except maybe on the internet.

author by zapping - non interactive cathode raytube couch potatoes.publication date Thu Sep 09, 2004 21:59author address author phone Report this post to the editors

the revolution will not be televised.

I remember people getting excited over "TV iniatives" before, but they always flopped.
Why? Why is it that in this day and age with over a hundred home shopping channels, countless pornography channels, and countless religious channels, that we don't have at least one Michael Moore channel?

TV is toxic.
to watch.
to make.
to dispose of.

author by jopublication date Thu Sep 09, 2004 22:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

who on earth will give a 100 million to a bunch of activists. These guys have been smokin' too much.

Also as the article says broadcast media is on the way out. Within 10 years if bandwidth and access increase its quite probable media will switch from the broadcast model to a publish and subcribe model, like Tivo but downloading instead of time shifting.

Once that happens, providing the hardware isn't locked to a single provider, we can all make our own TV shows!

author by zap zap zap a tizzerspublication date Thu Sep 09, 2004 22:08author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I was seven years of age and my mammy helped me cut out up a cardboard box, and I put it on my head, and the truth is my grandfather bless him, used prefer watch the evening news on my Telly to the other one.
That was in the days before RTE2, you know, and there wasn't even a channel 4!!!
Of course the younger people today know nothing of such simple pleasures, it's all rap music and hip hop and interactive video games and online chat rooms for them.

author by homeland security buba. - TV is Toxic! (even if it's a cut up cardboard box on your head)publication date Tue Sep 14, 2004 20:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

(Beyond TV was originally thought of as if it were going to be an alternative webcast TV station.)

Copy of Their invite:-

BEYONDTV 5th Video Activist Documentary Festival

November 19th-20th 2004 in Britain

Don't drink from the mainstream!

Welcome...

to the 5th BEyONdTV annual video activist documentary festival, hosted by Undercurrents, an award winning multi-media charity.
BEyONdTV screens the latest documentaries, community video and animations from the world's most radical producers which are overlooked by mainstream broadcasters.

What's showing?

This year's festival will include amongst others:
Surplus: Terrorised into being Consumers
Consumer confidence has been low since September 11. A successful war against Iraq was supposed to be the only way to restore that confidence - and our happiness. But is shopping our salvation? Do we have a choice?
First prize at the 2003 IDFA-Amsterdam Silver Wolf Competition.
Granny goes to Palestine
A grandmother from Swansea goes to the Middle East to protest against the Israeli wall which is splitting up Palestine families.
Life Before Death
Is the West disconnected from Death? An exploration of what happens when people face a terminal illness.
Tibetan Stories
How two film makers supported remote Tibetan people telling their own stories (part of a presentation on Participatory Video).
Presentation by the Swansea stars of Channel 4's "Wife Swap" program.
The festival will open with a concert by top political band Seize the Day (Winners of the BBC3 world music award and then banned)
followed by visuals and music from top VJ's.

How do I get my film into the BEYONDTV festival?
Do you have a short film, documentary or animation concerning environmental campaigning or social change?
To submit YOUR video into the festival line-up, contact us with details of your entry.
Guidelines on http://www.undercurrents.org/beyondtv

Send your tapes to:
Undercurrents BEyONdTV 2004
Old Telephone Exchange,
Pier Street,
Swansea SA1 1RY.
Wales, UK

Related Link: http://www.undercurrents.org/beyondtv
 
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