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Two New TV Series Are Liberal and Proud [ACLU teams up with Court TV; more]
NYT ^ | Feb. 18, 2006 | Felicia R. Lee

Posted on 02/18/2006 5:44:19 AM PST by summer


Dune Lankard, an Alaskan environmental activist, is featured in an episode of "The Sierra Club Chronicles."

... The two liberal groups see this as only the beginning of more such shows to get their messages out.

"The Sierra Club Chronicles" is a monthly series ... It had its national premiere on the Link TV satellite channel last month; a new episode will be broadcast Sunday night on that network.

Both Court TV and Link are now showing "The ACLU Freedom Files," a series of 10 30-minute episodes featuring real cases... The series is also shown on Zilo TV, a college education network that provides programming to more than 5.5 million students across the country.

"This is a beginning," Mr. Greenwald, the producer and director of the documentaries "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" and "Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Price," said of the two shows.

"The constant conversation we were having," he said of people on the left, "was, we need to buy a television studio. ...

...Mr. Greenwald produced "Chronicles" (which cost the Sierra Club $750,000 for all seven episodes) through his company, Brave New Films...

...The shows cost the A.C.L.U. $2.2 million, Mr. Romero said, with $1.6 million for production expenses and $600,000 for promotion. ...

...Not everyone has applauded the idea. Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a Washington-based research institute that is part of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, said that partisan organizations with their own shows just confuse viewers seeking unbiased information...

...Link TV, which broadcasts "Chronicles," is a noncommercial, independent network available in more than 26 million homes on the DirecTV and Dish satellite services....

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Alaska; US: California; US: Florida; US: New York
KEYWORDS: aclu; courttv; environment; liberals; media; sierraclub; tv
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This is a very interesting article, and I wish I could have posted all of it.
1 posted on 02/18/2006 5:44:21 AM PST by summer
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BTW, I was very surprised to see Alec Baldwin come out of hiding, and recently post on the Huff Post, claiming VP Chency is a "terrorist." I guess it must be an election year!


2 posted on 02/18/2006 5:45:52 AM PST by summer
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To: summer
More shows for conservatives to avoid.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

3 posted on 02/18/2006 5:48:20 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: summer

"Dune Lankard" needs a haircut and a bath.


4 posted on 02/18/2006 5:48:54 AM PST by GadareneDemoniac
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To: an amused spectator; martin_fierro

FYI re media.


5 posted on 02/18/2006 5:49:20 AM PST by summer
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To: summer; freepatriot32; puroresu; trillabodilla; Element187; bill1952; repubzilla; Highway55; ...

Envirowhacks mobilizing to the media ping...


6 posted on 02/18/2006 5:50:01 AM PST by Issaquahking (Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. Choose wisely, the MSM hasn't)
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To: summer
It's time to get us to elect our first female president.

Though not well known by the masses, the elites know how to manipulate and control "the commoners" as the Bush-era rides off.

7 posted on 02/18/2006 5:52:02 AM PST by IronManBike (Lodestar in the LoneStar)
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To: IronManBike

And if they are as successful as the women presidents on tv we won't be looking anything like Sweden soon ;)


8 posted on 02/18/2006 5:55:45 AM PST by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada!)
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To: goldstategop
More shows for conservatives to avoid.

LOL... :)
9 posted on 02/18/2006 5:55:54 AM PST by summer
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To: summer

In a prefect world there would be an epsisode of "Sleeper Cell" where the FBI plant is discovered because of leak to the LA Times.


10 posted on 02/18/2006 6:02:22 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: summer

I predict these two TV Series will be as successful as Air America Radio.


11 posted on 02/18/2006 6:06:59 AM PST by Ticonderoga34
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To: summer

... partisan organizations with their own shows just confuse viewers seeking unbiased information...

Uh, I think the word is not "confuse". It's outrage.

I sought unbiased information from the major networks for years, until I gave up and stopped watching.

It's their money, so they can spend it as they like. However, it seems wasteful and duplicating existing outlets to buy a broadcast outlet when there is already PBS, ABC, CBS.....


12 posted on 02/18/2006 6:07:44 AM PST by Rhetorical pi2
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To: summer
Both Court TV and Link are now showing "The ACLU Freedom Files," a series of 10 30-minute episodes featuring real cases... The series is also shown on Zilo TV, a college education network that provides programming to more than 5.5 million students across the country.

Bingo! .. that is is what they are aiming at .. the young students that are just learning and don't know all the TRUE facts

13 posted on 02/18/2006 6:08:53 AM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists.. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: Mo1
The series is also shown on Zilo TV, a college education network that provides programming to more than 5.5 million students across the country.

Bingo! .. that is is what they are aiming at .. the young students that are just learning and don't know all the TRUE facts

Mamas and Daddys need to be sure the kiddies are raised "right" as well as correctly. In my sphere, the kids go the way of the parents and don't deviate too much. Unless they have a good history teacher in high school and become conservatives.
14 posted on 02/18/2006 6:21:46 AM PST by HighlyOpinionated (In Memory of Crockett Nicolas, hit and run in the prime of his Cocker Spaniel life, 9/3/05.)
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To: summer

After much thought, I think that anti-bundling regulations would cure a lot of this crap.

If I can drop a cable channel, or not subsidize it at all, then the market place will work better.

I know I would only get about seven channels if I could select them individually, and I'd rather not pay for the trash.


15 posted on 02/18/2006 6:24:39 AM PST by SampleMan
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To: summer

I wonder if these shows will be as ponderous and boring as listening to Air America. I'd actually listen to AA just to see what the other side is thinking, but they've managed to take the vibrant and exciting medium of talk radio and turn it into an audio version of root canal.


16 posted on 02/18/2006 6:28:47 AM PST by John Jorsett (scam never sleeps)
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To: goldstategop

Or watch, so we can counter their arguments.

I suspect Catherine Crier has a hand in this.


17 posted on 02/18/2006 6:39:38 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: HighlyOpinionated
the young students that are just learning...

More like, just beginning indoctrination.

18 posted on 02/18/2006 6:50:26 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: summer
Give credit where credit is due - the libs are very media savy - especially with their cohorts in the MSM. Witness PETA, whomever they have as point (if it is a single person) in finding issues to attack, that person is a flippin genius. Even when it is as ridiculous as asking 'Fishkill NY' to rename itself, it is remembered (1996) and becomes part of the cultural memory.

I can hope that these shows are as ponderous as Air America, but I do respect Sierra Club and ACLU for their skills. ACLU is not going to talk about banning Christian icons and the Sierra Club is not going to mention loss of jobs from the Spotted Owl. Every show will be about some issue that can be shaped to have a villain and a victim. No gray, all black and white!

19 posted on 02/18/2006 6:51:10 AM PST by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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To: GadareneDemoniac

Yaeh, how come so many of them look like 50's Fidelistas?


20 posted on 02/18/2006 6:52:43 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?")
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