Just thinking out loud here...Liberty news channel?

[VictorB]

What kind of impact do you guys think a legitimate, liberty/libertarian leaning news channel would have on the general public? I'm talking about a news channel that is up there with CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. It seems that these three stations have an enormous amount of influence on the way people think and vote. Every person I've talked to these past few days is just spewing out whatever they hear on their preferred news channel.

It's a pipe dream, but it would be amazing to see some wealthy libertarians banning together to fund this thing.

Can you imagine the on-air talent? Stossel, Ben Swann, The Judge, Tucker Carlson. I can dream, can't I?

 

[LibertyEagle]

I do think we need something, but I'd rather start with just a station that offers regular programming and news too.

 

[acptulsa]

I really don't think it's as impossible as it seems at first. Wire service news stories would do; the main thing is to get the spin out and provide sane editorials. And we could start on the web; if it gets popular enough there, we could sell it to local broadcast stations easily enough.

 

[VictorB]

You know, the more I think about it, the less far-fetched it really does seem.

Add Schiff and Woods to the mix of people who would make a regular appearance on the channel.

 

[ninepointfive]

if we aggregated all the youtube channels, and enhanced the content in between - something could probably be done with it.

 

[idiom]

I am launching a 3D Sports channel which basically has all the same infrastructure. I could piggy-back a channel to go head to head with CNN and the BBC in 3D for around US$10 mil. Most of that would go towards funding 50-100 journalists around the globe and some integrated 3D cameras.

After that it would be self-funding.

It would be incredibly 'anti-american' though, being a non-american channel about liberty. It would just be news and Ron Paul's opinion on it all day long which is as un-american as you can get

I could probably do it for less, but in TV its go big or go home. Serious enquiries PM me.

It will be the IFP, the International Free Press. Information, Freedom, Peace.

It will be based out of New Zealand, Africa, and Central America.

Picture feeds out of New York or Syria in 3D with a pro-individual bias to the commentary.

 

[ninepointfive]

If anyone was interested in this - do a case study on, "break the matrix" and see where the pitfalls were.

RTR has a news channel, but I haven't seen it marketed all that much.

And personal feelings aside, Infowars is the most successful model at the current moment.

 

[Andyc3020]

This would be great, but how do you get major sponsors, when most major corporations are part of the problem?

 

[VoluntaryAmerican]

We need a Libertarian editor to gain control of the Op-ed section in one of the big newspapers, NY Times, Wash Post, LA Times.

These papers op-eds have a huge affect on the nations opinion of current events and the Libertarian voice is missing.

 

[QuickZ06]

Maybe that Ben Swann guy can be the front man for all this media stuff.

 

[lx43]

I like the idea we desperately need a liberty news/opinion channel.

 

[LJC4Liberty]

I'm in! Where do I apply? Freelance graphic designer for hire.

 

[VictorB]

I'm in! Where do I apply? Freelance graphic designer for hire.

This is fantastic. I bet there are thousand of liberty loving individuals willing to work for something like this.

Right now, MSNBC and CNN are full throttle on the pro-Obama propaganda, and Fox News is doing the same with Romney. We have no voice in the mainstream. We'll never get any of these three to back us, so we have to create our own voice.

Where does Peter Thiel live? I might have to drive to his house and plead with him personally . Seriously though, make it a public company and I'll buy shares. It'll allow people to be, in essence, partial owners of the thing.

 

[supermario21]

The best bet is try and get another libertarian on Fox. Stossel is already there, Judge Nap is there, Cavuto is good, WAR goes on sometimes.

 

[acptulsa]

This would be great, but how do you get major sponsors, when most major corporations are part of the problem?

That would be a major problem. If it could be syndicated (networked, in essence), however, local sponsors could be recruited. This would solve that problem, give local business access to a more anti-corporatist audience, and be a boon to all manner of local channels.

It'll allow people to be, in essence, partial owners of the thing.

News isn't traditionally profitable. If it's unique, though, and depends on wire services instead of maintaining its own reporters, that would cut out a major portion of the costs. Eventually, the corporate wire services could cut us off, of course. Would be more surprised if they didn't. So, we'd have to hope we're popular enough by then to pay the sort of freelance gonzo reporters who don't do well selling to the existing media.

Maybe that Ben Swann guy can be the front man for all this media stuff.

I'm sure we have enough talent. The Mainstream Mafia creates its own frontmen; we can do the same.

We need a Libertarian editor to gain control of the Op-ed section in one of the big newspapers, NY Times, Wash Post, LA Times.

These papers op-eds have a huge affect on the nations opinion of current events and the Libertarian voice is missing.

Real journalists never get promoted any more. That's why this is needed.

 

[idiom]

I swear the majority of users on this forum have me on ignore.

 

[acptulsa]

I swear the majority of users on this forum have me on ignore.

How did this thread get back to the top of New Posts? No one has posted since I did...

j/k I suspect most did as I did--checked our bank books and failed to find ten mil. Obviously, this would take more than ten investors. We put together five million for Ron Paul's first money bomb, but the forum was more active back then. Seems to me, pulling this off for ten mil would be at least as sound an investment in liberty, bang-for-buck wise. How do we get fired up over it?

I've long been puzzled over what does, and what doesn't, get us fired up. This sort of thing is so obviously what we so desperately need. And several variations on the theme have been proposed here over the years, from local newsweeklies with nationally-prepared content to this to a suggestion to buy GE stock (and, thus, NBC) back when there were thousands on this forum and GE was five bucks a share. Yet here it lies, while sign waves and blimps take off without fail...

 

[anaconda]

The judge Nap approach was good. A segment on a MSM show. Expand from there. Become The Media. The low budget liberty shows will not have wide spread appeal (RT, Gary Franchi, Alex Jones (his recent news segment)), etc. Bless every last one of these efforts but they have really poor production quality for wide spread appeal, compared to what grabs the eye of the low information cable T.V. viewer. We need to get the low information masses on our side very soon.

 

[BSU kid]

For $100, you can buy a domain name and set up a decent looking website. Add in volunteer staff from the liberty community (tech support, writers, scientists etc.) and then pay to get into Google News Searches...and you are in business.

 

[Bastiat's The Law]

I love the idea of a Liberty TV channel complete with a dream team lineup of a who's who in this movement. It would take a massive amount of money to setup and lure highly qualified people away from the other major networks though. I think trying to get them on the cheap would send the wrong message. Pay them handsomely and word-of-mouth would get around that this channel appreciates their employees and people would seek to work at our channel in the future, not only because of the compensation, but for the journalistic freedom.