Alternative news on Channel 4
undercurrents | 30.08.2001 14:55
Alternative news programme on Channel 4
Tomorrow , Friday 31st August, at 7.30pm, Channel 4 will broadcast ALT WORLD, an alternative news programme made by video activists reporting from Australia, Britain, Brazil, Yugoslavia.
News features include
Breaking News- Undercurrents reports on how British Police arrest reporters and stop the news reaching the public. With just 20 hours to go before transmission, Channel 4 legal department are demanding cuts to be made from our investigations
Banksy- Squall follows Britain's cheekiest Grafitti artist at work
Landless movement- "it is the largest social movement in Latin America today but you probaly haven't heard of it" says the presenter. Homeless people in the shanty towns of Brazil are staging mass land occupation and rebuilding their lives.Conscious cinema explores.
and much much more
A spokesperson for Undercurrents said-
"Alt World will be the first televsion News programmes exploring the role of alternative media in the growing grassroots political movement. This is a radical rethink at how News is presented."
Tune in Tomorrow Friday August 31 at 7.30pm, Channel 4 ALT WORLD
More details on
http://www.undercurrents.org or
http://www.channel4.com/alt-world/5_0.html
Tomorrow , Friday 31st August, at 7.30pm, Channel 4 will broadcast ALT WORLD, an alternative news programme made by video activists reporting from Australia, Britain, Brazil, Yugoslavia.
News features include
Breaking News- Undercurrents reports on how British Police arrest reporters and stop the news reaching the public. With just 20 hours to go before transmission, Channel 4 legal department are demanding cuts to be made from our investigations
Banksy- Squall follows Britain's cheekiest Grafitti artist at work
Landless movement- "it is the largest social movement in Latin America today but you probaly haven't heard of it" says the presenter. Homeless people in the shanty towns of Brazil are staging mass land occupation and rebuilding their lives.Conscious cinema explores.
and much much more
A spokesperson for Undercurrents said-
"Alt World will be the first televsion News programmes exploring the role of alternative media in the growing grassroots political movement. This is a radical rethink at how News is presented."
Tune in Tomorrow Friday August 31 at 7.30pm, Channel 4 ALT WORLD
More details on
http://www.undercurrents.org or http://www.channel4.com/alt-world/5_0.html
undercurrents
e-mail:
underc@gn.apc.org
Comments
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questions
30.08.2001 21:53
Are you using ch4 or are they using you?
Or is it a mutal thing?
Is it serious or pop?
Does any of this matter?
Look forward to seeing it and good luck with ch4 legal dept!
(see
for info on ch4 legal dept re alt.news@4 in article and discussion "Bristol video activists gets censored"
by i-Contact video network)
Lensman
Jon Snow's quite a good bloke
30.08.2001 22:33
This isn't a cynical thing, this is Channel 4 being progressive.
Thomas