If you were a Progressive TV media mogul?

Just for fun!
If you were a media mogul who owned your own television network, and you wanted to put your money where your mouth is to help further along the "Progressive Movement" or liberal agendas, What would your programming formats be? Who would you hire to host your shows? Do you think that televising live broadcasts of progressive radio talk shows on the air would work? Would you watch something like Media Matters For America if it was on television? What would be your alternatives to MSM Sunday talk shows? MMFA would be a personal favorite of mine along with a Randi Rhoades, a Stephanie Miller, a Bernie Ward, and after the kids go to bed, a Mike Malloy? The list goes on and on if you were to include notable bloggers and pundits.
I would expect to include open invitations to any Democrat or republican politician forewarned prior that no interview would be a "walk in the park" for either party.
Isn't it a fact we all know, that unless the long established, highly organized, well-oiled right wing sound machine is oppossed and counteracted a helluva lot more often and harder than it has been,,,then,,,Well!,,,expect plenty more of the same!
Now, I know the possibility of such a television venture happenning is somewhere between 'None and Never" along with a few scattered "Are you freekin' nutz?" in between.
I also realize that it's probably only republicans (especially the 0.27% affected by the "death tax") who have the kind of money needed to invest and protect their political ideas and agendas. But, I'm only asking, for fun, What would your own tv network shows be like? And out of curiousity, Why do you think there isn't one already in light of the fact that the republican "use and abuse" of the televised media has been one their biggest of big play gamebreakers for years.

a round table discussion - somewhat like McLauglin - with Bill Clinton as moderator.

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I'd hire the best detectives & reporters to dig up the dirt. Then the best writers and anchors to deliver the stories in the most interesting way possible.

First target I'd take out would be Vast Right Wing Conspiracy....i.e.the religious right and right wing noise machine.

And if a terrestrial broadcaster is sinking they could punch up TV news profits greatly by taking a non-corporate journalistic direction in their evening news. But the MNC's (multi-national corporations) own TV.

If the Dems win congress back, they could refuse licensing to cable and broadcast programmers if they refuse alternate (fact based) news channels on.

As for journalists, take your pick from the unemployed and ousted. There are many heroic journalists who are unheard and unseen. Amy Goodman for hard news, along with the many web based thinkers. And anybody from the talent pool on Air America for info-tainment broadcasts. Some at AAR could roll right over to hard news, but are too valuable as opinion makers to read news.

Now INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM would be a very very important part of an info-tainment channel, I imagine. The BBC has set a good paradigm for that, as well as the former PBS. So it could be included in a news channel format too.

OR

Democrats could restore PBS in addition to a liberal news channel. People are getting wise to Fox. A freeper guy I know has even said he can't trust it anymore...

and I doubt I am alone in saying how dismayed I was that he went to something completely neutral.

I'd try to recruit Keith Olbermann and Christanne Amanpour from MSNBC and CNN, maybe for the morning show. I'd also get Greg Palast, and Robert Scheer. Paul Krugman would cover economics and the stock market. I'd hire Helen Thomas to cover the White House. I would forbid is coverage of missing white women, Brangelina, American Idol. Or just have a daily wrap-up and call the the "Who gives a rat's ass files."

schedule Scheer head up against Bellow Reilly.

Besides honest news that asks the real questions.

1. "Religion today" - A program with a comparative religion teacher as the host,
and each program would meet and explore a different religion, from its belief
systems to its practices and how they affect culture. There are enough world
religions and sects to keep this program busy forever.

2. "100 most powerful people in the US" - a roundtable discussion where 10 different
persons from different fields put forward, argue and select those 100 most powerful
persons... this program would run annually.

3. "industry today" - this program would do a detailed education on a business
sector/industry and its companies, explaining how businesses compete in that sector,
be it spagetti manufacturing to electric guitar strings. This proogram would be
very educational and inspiring to discover all the innovative and interesting industries
that run our society.

4. "History and myth" - a very intense show hosted by a philosophy professor and
a team of history advisors, that take challenging looks at past history, debating the
various accounts and why the hsitory is told like it is, and what could have been
different at the time... and how the historical myths affect our modern worldviews.

5. "prison TV" - This would be a reality TV show filmed in a prison environment, where
we seek to reproduce the conditions of american detention on live camera to see how
viewers feel about it.

6. "Energy and Invention" - A show that investigates and studies energy and motion
technologies, using a very comprehensive system of dimensioning the actual value of
said technology to teach the public how to study energy technolgy systems.

7. "Economic man" - This series would investigate and study economics as a popular
motivation in cultural transofrmation. It would have programs on macro and micro
economics, how currencies work, how the federal reserve system works and how financial
markets affect the average person. There is enough material to make many years of
extraodinary programming in this area.

8. "Geolography and Habitat" - this program would take the cameras to a new geography
every program to study nature, and how water, and geographic climate affect the planet

9. "Postmodernist hour" - a program about metanarratives, one that deconstructs
narratives in each episode, teaching derrida, focault, and heck, the entirity of
western knoweldge evolution.. and as well, including the eastern narratives as well.
Program would have different experts in to educate, and discuss with callers.

10. "Human equality" - show takes a camera to meet the lives of persons all over the
planet talking with them about their concerns, their views on civil rights and the
world.

Then we'd show rambo movies and james bond flicks. ;-)

I'd watch alot of them

Mogul and Progressive are mutually exclusive.

For very good reasons.

or we're all sunk. I hope there are some very wealthy people that would love to save America from corporatism. Some things are more important than money, like a planet to spend it on.

take positive political action.

We've tried everything else. :shrug:

Bernie Ward read this article on air.
"Why Democrats Lose", by Robert Parry

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