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View Article  Celebrate Independence Day By Helping IBLTV Work For An Independent Media
  Celebrate Independence Day By Helping IBLTV Work For An  Independent Media

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Democracy cannot survive without an independent media.  Celebrate the 4th of July with an act of patriotism.  Make a donation to Iowans for Better Local TV and receive the "Outfoxed" DVD!
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Learn about the outrageous excesses of Fox TV the easy way!

This film by Robert Greenwald forcefully presents an unvarnished picture of Fox Television and its various "Fair and Balanced" programs. Learn how Rupert Murdoch acquired his broadcast kingdom, News Corporation, now one of the Big Five media conglomerates and a Fortune-100 company.

The beauty of owning and viewing this DVD is not that you won't get infuriated or nauseous, but rather that you won't have to watch more than two hours to see it all!

 ~ Watch Roger Ailes claim with a straight face how he announces the creation of Fox News channel as a premier news station with top journalistic standards!

 ~ See Bill O'Reilly, no stranger to employee harassment problems, self-righteously yell and brow-beat his "guests" on any matter he disagrees with!

 ~ Hear insider scoops from former Fox producers and reporters how this network leads the way in unbalanced news and opinion.

 ~ See how Fox was the first to "call" the 2000 election, even though no other network was able to call it, and how the non-partisan voter news system did not support the call!

 ~ Get the health benefits of a fully activated cardiovascular system as it tries to send sufficient oxygen to your brain to cope with the flood of, uh, nonsense delivered by Fox programming!

We will send this DVD video to you in exchange for a $25 donation to IBTLV.

Just make sure to include, with your donation, a request for a complementary copy of this DVD!

Send us a check (made payable to IBLTV) to our mailing address (IBLTV, P.O. Box 578, Iowa City, IA 52244) and we will send you a copy of "Outfoxed", postage paid.

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View Article  Former Wisconsin Senator, Earth Day Founder Gaylord Nelson Dies
  Former Wisconsin Senator, Earth Day Founder Gaylord Nelson Dies

By Frank A. Aukofer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Gaylord A. Nelson, who spent a lifetime in service to Wisconsin, the nation and the planet, never stopped fighting on behalf of environmental causes.

The former Wisconsin governor and U.S. senator was the founder in 1970 of Earth Day, which is regarded as the beginning of the modern environmental movement. Twenty-five years later, Nelson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, for that and his lifelong work on behalf of the environment.

 Earth Day was a milestone that, in retrospect, Nelson himself regarded as the most personally satisfying, although only as the capstone of his efforts on behalf of environmental protection throughout his political career and beyond.

After serving four years as Wisconsin's governor from 1959 to 1963, Nelson spent 18 years in the U.S. Senate until his defeat in 1980. He could easily have moved into a life of wealth and privilege as a Washington lawyer and consultant, but that never was an option he seriously considered.  Instead, he immediately signed on as chairman, then counselor, of The Wilderness Society. In his later years, when asked why he continued to work, Nelson was succinct.

"Our work's not done," he said.

Nelson made pre-election headlines last year, charging that the Bush administration had "failed to lead and actually sabotaged progress on crucial environmental problems."  Four more years "could upset 40 years of progress toward cleaner air, cleaner water, resource protection and a new environmental ethic," he said in October, adding that he regretted that Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry had not spoken out more forcefully on the environment during the debates.

This past Earth Day, Nelson issued "a wake-up call" that made international news, accusing [Bush] and Congress of not providing leadership on population control and other environmental issues.

"For [Bush] to call for oil drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge is like burning the furniture in the White House to keep the first family comfortable," he wrote.
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Nelson died Sunday at the age of 89.

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Iowans for Better Local TV

*IBLTV is a group of citizens from the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids area who are concerned about the decline in the quality of local television. Fight local media consolidation, as it leads to an unaccountable medium that enriches itself while disregarding the need to serve the public good.


Air America

*How to Bring Air America Radio to Your Local Community


The Counterpoint

*The rational counter to 'The Point,' 'The Counterpoint' critiques and corrects the daily editorial by Sinclair Broadcasting's corporate vice president, Mark Hyman, that is broadcast on all Sinclair-owned television stations across the country


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FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting

*FAIR is a national media watch group that offers well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship


Media Matters for America

*Media Matters for America is an information center dedicated to monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media