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GRITtv: The Future of Independent Media
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Independent media is almost a household name these days. But in 1986 when Fairness And Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) launched most people hadn't heard of anything like it. So what's changed in the last two decades? Has the stranglehold of corporate media been loosened? Today, pioneers in the field, Janine Jackson, Program Director of FAIR and co-host of CounterSpin, Steve Rendall, Senior Analyst at FAIR and, Jeff Cohen, director of the Park Center for Independent Media and the author of "Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate...
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Tell Congress: Pass Net Neutrality Now
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The phone and cable companies are scrambling to kill Net Neutrality so they can inspect and filter content, and overcharge you for using the Web in ways they don't like. Over the past six months alone, these companies have hired 500 lobbyists in Washington to try to stop this bill from becoming law. It's up to you to tell your members of Congress to side with the public -- not with the corporate lobbyists -- and take a final stand for an open Internet by supporting the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009 (H.R. 3458). Click the website...
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Dan Rather Explains the Problems with Network News
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Former CBS Anchorman, Dan Rather, speaks to an audience about how corporate broadcasters have compromised journalistic integrity by satisfying stockholders, instead of public interests.
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Democracy Now! (Latest Episode)
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Democracy Now! is a daily independent newshour broadcasting on over 500 radio and television channels. For more information, including complete transcripts of their shows, click on the website link. This video will display the most recent episode of Democracy Now!
Use the back button to the right of the Play button to view previous episodes.
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POPaganda: The Art and Subversion of Ron English
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Ron English's billboards force the man on the street to look twice...or maybe three times.
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Net Neutrality Rock: "Help me become a law!"
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Network Neutrality -- or "Net Neutrality" for short -- is the guiding principle that preserves the free and open Internet. Put simply, Net Neutrality means no discrimination. Net Neutrality prevents Internet providers from blocking, speeding up or slowing down Web content based on its source, ownership or destination.
Net Neutrality is the reason why the Internet has driven economic innovation, democratic participation, and free speech online. It protects the consumer's right to use any equipment, content, application or service on...
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Good Magazine: Internet Censorship
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Sex. Ass. Falun gong. Chances are, if you're reading this right now, you don't live in Yemen, Myanmar, or China. Internet censorship can take many forms, from restricting private internet access to blocking searches for politically volatile keywords. Exercise your internet freedom by taking a look at Good magazine's latest Transparency.
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Bill Moyers addresses the NCMR 2008
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In a powerful speech legendary journalist Bill Moyers praised the media reform movement as "the most significant citizens' movement to emerge in this new century." With over 3,500 people in attendance Moyers said that the work of activists has "challenged the stranglehold of mega-media corporations over our press" and fostered "alternative and independent sources of news and information that people can trust."
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2008 Election Fraud Plans Exposed
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What happens when Karl Rove accidentally sends 500 emails to the wrong address? We get a small piece of the G.O.P.'s plans to rig the 2008 election. 
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The Real McCain 2
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This is truly spectacular: within 24 hours, The Real McCain 2 has skyrocketed to over half a million views! It's the #1 most viewed video on YouTube right now, and it's getting loads of love on Digg as well. These numbers put us right up there with many cable news shows. This incredible feedback clearly indicates that what the general public wants to see (and what the corporate press has failed to show) is an accurate portrayal of McCain. So continue to pass this video along to all of your family, friends, and colleagues.
We need to end the...
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What is Creative Commons?
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What is Creative Commons? It's the future of copyright - a whole new way of sharing and remixing culture. Audio remixed and mashed up by Robin Good, Livia Iacolare and Michael Pick.
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NCMR 2008: Media reform starts here
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The next National Conference for Media Reform will be held in Minneapolis, June 6--8, 2008. Join fellow activists, media makers, educators, journalists, policymakers and concerned citizens in calling for real and lasting changes to our nation's media system.
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Breaking news in Congress: Net Neutrality needs YOU
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Don't take the Internet for granted. The Internet Freedom Preservation Act (HR 5353) will guarantee Net Neutrality protections for everyone. We must pass this bill to protect everyone's right to connect with one another without being blocked by phone and cable companies. You can make the difference. Congressman Markey tells us how.
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Big Media is the sickness - IndyMedia is the cure
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Indy Media is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.
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Project Censored 2008
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Project Censored tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters, and every year the group compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country's major national news media.
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Can Your Film Change the World?
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Here's a big idea: Pangea Day plans to use the power of film to bring the world a little closer together. We're divided by borders, race, religion, conflict... but most of all by misunderstanding and mistrust. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that -- to help people see themselves in others -- through the power of film.
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My Urban Report Interviews Chris Rabb of Afro-Netizen
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Talking about the importance of new media in the lead-up to the 2008 elections. The importance of black American voices being represented in the media, whether through established channels or channels they've set up themselves. Afro-netizen.com is a great alternative news website if you haven't checked it out yet.
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Five Words for Free Media
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We want to be free! All Power to the People. Words taken from the National Conference on Media Reform 2007 in Memphis, TN.
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Van Jones at the NCMR 2007
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Van Jones' closing speech at the National Conference on Media Reform 2007, which was held in Memphis, TN. One of the best from the conference.
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Save the Internet!
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From its beginnings, the Internet has leveled the playing field for all. Everyday people can have their voices heard by thousands, even millions of people. The SavetheInternet.com Coalition -- representing millions of Americans from all walks of life -- is working together to defeat corporate efforts to kill network neutrality and ensure that Congress passes no telecommunications legislation without meaningful and enforceable Network Neutrality protections. Go to SaveTheInternet.com to get involved and take action.
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