Pirate Television (television program)
| Pirate TV Seattle | |
|---|---|
| Genre | current affairs |
| Created by | Ed Mays |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Ed Mays |
| Location(s) | Seattle |
| Running time | 58 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original release | 1997 – present |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
Pirate Television is a progressive, independently produced weekly current affairs program broadcast nationally within the United States by Free Speech TV.[1]
Pirate Television challenges the Media Blockade, showcasing independent voices, information and programming generally unavailable in the mainstream media. The show features talks, interviews and documentaries. The series, originally called Crack the CIA, focused on exposing the secret foreign policy of the United States and the phony drug war. As the subject matter of the program expanded, it was decided to drop the Crack the CIA moniker and just call the show Pirate Television.[1][2][3]
Background
Pirate Television began as a public access television program broadcast on the Seattle Public Access station, which is now called Seattle Community Media. Since then the program has been picked up by public access stations all over the country.
On February 11, 2012, Pirate Television began being broadcast nationally by Free Speech TV.[4]
Awards and reaction
Pirate Television won the SCAN award for "Favorite Political or Community Affairs Program" in 2010.[5] This is the only time the show participated in any awards programs. The show continues to be one of the most popular on Seattle Public Access and has been given the responsibility to produce all of the lecture and book talk programming on Free Speech TV.
Notable guests
- Chris Hedges is an American journalist, activist, author, and Presbyterian minister. Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of several books including War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002)—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction—Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), Death of the Liberal Class (2010), the New York Times best seller, written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), and his most recent Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt (2015). [6]
- Greg Palast is a New York Times-bestselling author and a freelance journalist for the BBC as well as the British newspaper The Guardian. [7]
- Paul Roberts, an award-winning journalist, author of The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification, The End of Oil, and The End of Food, October 11, 2014.[8]
- Julene Bair is an award-winning writer, educator, author of: The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning, and One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter, July 7, 2014.[9]
- Nick Turse, an investigative journalist, historian, and author. He is the managing editor of the blog TomDispatch.com and a fellow at The Nation Institute. He is the author of Kill Anything That Moves, and The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives, June 6, 2014.[10]
- David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Free Lunch, Perfectly Legal, and The Fine Print, May 31, 2014.[11]
- Mark McDermott, an economic justice and labor educator, member of the Machinists, AFSCME & Steelworkers Unions, co-founded the Seattle Worker Center and John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation, co-author of Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America, May 24, 2014.[12]
- Kshama Sawant, a Seattle City Council member. Sawant became a socialist activist and part-time economics professor in Seattle after emigrating to the United States. MP Joe Higgins is an Irish Socialist Party politician. February 15, 2014.[13]
- Ray McGovern, a 27-year veteran high level CIA Analyst turned political activist and founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. November 16, 2013[14] and December 1, 2013.[15]
- Jeremy Scahill, a special correspondent for Democracy Now!, writes for The Nation magazine, best-selling author of Blackwater and Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield, July 14, 2013.[16]
See also
References
- 1 2 "Pirate TV". freespeech.org. Free Speech TV. Archived from the original on 28 January 2013. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
- ↑ "About Pirate Television". Retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ↑ "Pirate Television". Retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ↑ "Pirate Television - Episode Guide". Retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ↑ "And the SCAN Award Goes To . . .". Seattle, Washington: Seattle Community Access Network. Archived from the original on 27 Nov 2010. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
Favorite Political or Community Affairs Program: Pirate TV
- ↑ "Pirate Television: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt with Chris Hedges". freespeech.org. Free Speech TV. Archived from the original on 6 September 2013. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
- ↑ "Pirate TV - Greg Palast". freespeech.org. Free Speech TV. Archived from the original on 1 May 2013. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
- ↑ Roberts, Paul (2014-10-11). Pirate Television: The Impulse Society with Paul Roberts (Video). Free Speech TV. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ↑ Bair, Julene (2014-07-27). Pirate Television: The Ogallala Road (Video). Free Speech TV. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ↑ Turse, Nick (2014-06-29). Pirate Television: Revisiting War Crimes During the War in Vietnam (Video). Free Speech TV. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ↑ Johnston, David Cay (2014-05-31). Pirate Television: The Impact of American Inequality (Video). Free Speech TV. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ↑ McDermott, Mark; Nichols, John (2014-05-24). Pirate Television: National 28th Amendment Roadshow - Overturn Citizens United (Video). Free Speech TV. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ↑ Higgins, Joe, MP; Sawant, Kshama; Freiboth, Dave (2014-02-15). Pirate Television: The Fight For $15 An Hour (Video). Free Speech TV. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ↑ McGovern, Ray (2013-11-16). Pirate Television: The Real Agenda of the American Empire (1 of 2) (Video). Free Speech TV. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ↑ McGovern, Ray (2013-12-01). Pirate Television: The Real Agenda of the American Empire (2 of 2) (Video). Free Speech TV. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ↑ Scahill, Jeremy (2013-07-14). Pirate Television: Inside America's Secret Wars with Jeremy Scahill (Video). Free Speech TV. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
External links
- Pirate Television series on Free Speech TV. Archived from the original on 28 January 2013.
- Official website
- Pirate Television on YouTube and on the Free Speech TV YouTube channel.
- Pirate Television show listings at Seattle Community Media
- Pirate Television at TVGuide.com
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