{"id":976,"date":"2005-07-24T11:35:59","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T15:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=976"},"modified":"2005-07-24T11:35:59","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T15:35:59","slug":"then-there-was-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"then there was none"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newsworld International<\/a> goes off U.S. air August 1st<\/a>. So long to CBC News<\/a> and a reasonably fair representation of both sides of conflicts and current affairs from a foreign perspective. Hello to Al Gore and Joel Hyatt whose INdTV purchased it from Vivendi in 2004 for a reported $70m under the auspices of creating a liberal counterpoint<\/a> to Murdoch’s FOX which Gore now denies is his objective. He’s pledged “that INdTV will be apolitical” and claims to be “democratising<\/a>” news “by handing control of the airwaves to a creatively empowered new generation”. Who’s he kidding<\/a>? So why gobble up the only apolitical 24-hour news source available to Americans, unless your real aim was to snuff it out, as private interests<\/a> are attempting to do to the CBC in Canada?<\/p>\n

Current TV (the official site<\/a>)’s revolutionary approach to programming was to be had by enlisting a corps of inexperienced digital journalists (fifty – never hired), selected on the basis of web submissions<\/a> and put through a four-week boot camp by DV Dojo<\/a>‘s Michael Rosenblum (he was dismissed without explanation), who were then supposed to produce segments<\/a> in the grassroots-based ideal of MTV’s UNfiltered<\/a>. As the launch dates nears, the only real revolution in evidence is the one video freelancers are waging apart from it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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