Idealist's grail: Network TV beholden only to the public

[Sticky]

Idealist's grail: Network TV beholden only to the public
ANTONIA ZERBISIAS

--snip--

He's "running to meetings, raising dough, making allies" — all to build Independent World Television (IWT), "the world's first global independent news network," to beam it out to the English-speaking world and to base it right here in the GTA. (Greater Toronto Area)

Jay's mantra?

"No corporate ownership. No corporate underwriting. No government funding. No commercial advertising."

Instead, he intends to "harness the economic power of the Internet," the way MoveOn.org and the Howard Dean and John Kerry presidential campaigns did in the U.S., raising tens and tens of millions of dollars in small donations.

Already Jay's got half a million in seed money from charitable trusts, foundations, wealthy individuals and unions. He has access to their email lists and to their memberships.

And he has a business plan (http://www.iwtnews.com) he's been labouring over for two years.

more -
http://tinyurl.com/dayck