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Our old friend Robert Broughton has just alerted us to this:

I went to a presentation on June 14 by Paul Jay, of the CBC Newsworld program counterSpin. Paul's current project is Independent World Television and I think it's an excellent idea.....

To make this happen, he's hired Paul Maslin, who engineered the grass-roots internet fundraising effort for the Howard Dean campaign in 2004. Paul has also signed up an impressive list of media heavyweights, including Gore Vidal, Naomi Klein, and Janeane Garofalo; the list can be found on the IWT News Site, which launches on June 15.

There's a fundraising component to the thing but, when you figure out how much you throwaway to greedheads like Crazy Uncle Ted and those Shawpeople every month for crapola worth less than poop on shinola, who the heck cares.

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