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 |
| Production 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]
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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
- 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.[6]
- 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.[7]
- 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.[8]
- David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Free Lunch, Perfectly Legal, and The Fine Print, May 31, 2014.[9]
- 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.[10]
- 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.[11]
- Ray McGovern, a 27-year veteran high level CIA Analyst turned political activist and founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. November 16, 2013[12] and December 1, 2013.[13]
- 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.[14]
See also
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External links
- Pirate Television series on Free Speech TV
- 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
