Maurice Ali
Joined: 14 Nov 2003
Posts: 7685
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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 Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:14 pm Post subject: Countdown To The Fortress TV Show! |
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Countdown To The Fortress TV Show!
By Maurice Ali, President and CEO: FOF Inc./IAIJ Inc.
Maurice Ali
The countdown has begun! Now the only question is if the actual airing on September 18, 2:30AM will occur. Many of you regulars have heard this speech before; for others.....here it goes:
Fortress Of Freedom Inc. is a corporation that exists to enable ordinary people access to the mass media. Our latest project is broadcast television..... The Fortress TV Show was shot as if ordinary people would produce a show to get their message out. The show was made under some of the hardest conditions we could envision. The next step was to see if we could get this Canadian Program (as designated by the CRTC here in Canada) on a TV broadcast station as is required under typical TV licence agreements. The question to be answered is: Can ordinary individuals really express themselves to their community via television as is mandated by the CRTC to enhance Canadian Culture in a media dominated by American television?
The answer to that question takes on two results:
1. The show does not air..... Then we will produce the result in our newspaper (which is ready to go to press) and sell the story to other newspapers and broadcasters. We will also be very public about our inability to get the TV show on the air and apply to the CRTC for a broadcasting licence, and ask that those large broadcasters who did not help us to get on the air, be excluded from challenging that application. That application will be for low cost affordable broadcast TV for the public. This will have the effect of lowering advertising revenue, production costs and profits and, if others follow our example, extracting a large market share from the existing relatively closed market of TV broadcasting.
2. We get on - then we put any thought of a broadcast licence on hold and praise the broadcaster for being helpful and accessible and promoting Canadian culture in our newspaper; and concentrate on our music production.
That - in a nut shell - is what is going on right now. It is an experiment in securing the public's right to express themselves on the public airwaves. We believe this ability to express oneself in the mass media is necessary for the broadcast of divergent opinions, cultures, religions, artistic freedoms, journalistic freedoms, etc. - This is ultimately impacted on an individual's ability to think among diversity of ideas and ultimately self-determination in our world where the mass media smothers a person's senses.
Anyway.....time will tell.....
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