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Volunteers for free speech seek allies
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A noble experiment in free speech and community activism needs your help. Treasure Valley Public Access Television, Inc. (TVTV), the non-profit public access television station for Boise and the Treasure Valley, needs warm bodies and dollars.
Like most of you, the dollars in my pocket are few and the hours I have for extracurricular activities are scarce. But when members of TVTV asked me for a financial donation, I did not hesitate.
I knew what he, and the other TVTV volunteers were doing. I have known since that day two years ago I wrote a news story about TVTV on assignment from The Idaho Statesman.
Simply put, TVTV is about empowering you and your neighbors to make, do and experience TV. Take it from me, I never had an unhappy day making television. Making television is not like watching commercial television.
Watching commercial television is usually a matter of turning your brain over to an endless parade of persuasive advertisements disguised as entertainment.
Making television is a liberating experience.
You really have to try it to appreciate it. And TVTV trains you and will allow you to feel that liberation. Later, you can sit back and say, “I made that.” Once you have made TV you come to appreciate the nuances of persuasion the parasites, known as commercial television, use to manipulate you via your publicly owned but privately controlled air waves.
This is a society prone to giving over control to the big folks and the experts. But TVTV is truly liberating. A true community media center. Not a place where you have to have bags of cash to do television. An open forum, not a private club for the well heeled. A place for the expression and the discussion of ideas, not the suppression of ideas.
And that is where you come in dear fellow student. With your energy, creativity and intelligence TVTV will succeed and become the only truly open, non-commercial, media center in the valley.
Won’t you act now and call 426-3086 and say, “Yes! I want to do television.” Do not take my word for it visit the TVTV web site and take a look at http://www.tvpatv.org. You can own a television station for the cost of a carton of cigarettes.