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Closer: The Fall of Baghdad, Directed by Stephen Marshall, Produced by Lisa Hsu, USA, 2003
6 min.

This cannibalization of the coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom by the Guerrilla News Network highjacks the conventional 24-hour news network ticker and implants it with their version of the invasion. Sadly, three years later, the list continues.

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The 90's Pilot Episode, Tom Weinberg, Executive Producer, Joel Cohen, Producer, USA, 1989
10 min.

Excerpts from “Beijing Journal” by Pat Keeton and “Crack Clouds Over Hell’s Kitchen” by The Educational Video Center that both aired on the pilot episode of "The 90’s" television program. “Beijing Journal” covers the student uprising in Tiananmen Square in 1989 while “Crack Clouds Over Hell’s Kitchen” provides an up-close portrait of drug addiction in New York City. The videoblogging feel of these two pieces immediately struck me when I watched them as well as their immediacy and intimacy with the subject matter.

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Blackout in East Timor, Directed by Stephen Marshall, Produced by Paul McNuily and Joulie Wheeler, USA, 1997
8 min.

“Blackout in East Timor” examines the limited coverage of the brutal abuse inflicted by Indonesia on East Timor during its US backed occupation. I like the discussion at the beginning of the video about the high cost of investigative journalism and the limits to covering stories. The video was made at the tail end of Indonesia’s 25-year occupation of the region and called for a boycott of corporations that do business with Indonesia.

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Birth of a Network, Independent World Television, 2006
13.5 min.

A short teaser trailer for Independent World Television, producer of the independent news program The Real News, which is currently available on-line. Through a grass-roots fundraising campaign, modeled after web initiatives like MoveOn.org and the Howard Dean campaign, the network plans to have their programming available on digital cable and satellite television by 2007. Independent World Television is “non-profit and accepts no funding from governments, corporations, or commercial advertising.” The reach and possibilities of this kind of programming is very exciting. For now, the website samples will have to be enough.