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Unedited corporate TV news interview

by mark
Channel 4 interviewed an organizer at the FTAA "Release the Text" street party and protest in San Francisco today.
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It's awsome that people are mobilizing around the FTAA and trying to get the word out, I think it is a lot more effective if media spokespersons can avoid saying um, ur , like, ya know.. especially while on camera. Unfortunately TV news only use short one line soundbytes that can rarely explain complex issues, so whenever peole are interviewed by corporate press they should try hard to think about saying as much as possible with as few words as possible, then stop talking and wait for another question, rattling on will usually accomplish nothing, especially if you never complete a sentence. I'd suggest people practise a few soundbytes before ever talking on camera.
suggestions include " FTAA is an expansion of the negative policies of NAFTA. It undermines real democracy and hands over power to corporate interests. This is proven by the fact that they won't release the actual text of the FTAA to the public. Free Trade is just a fancy name for economic imperialsim and the continued exploitation of the third world by the wealthy first world elite."

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