I have with me Sam Ettaro, the brains behind RepublicMedia.TV. Welcome to OpEdNews, Sam. Please tell us about your new website and how it came about.
I started RepublicMedia.TV in response to a vision. In answer to a passion. In commitment to a cause. We launched RMTV in January of 2007 after I left my position as National Media Director for Aaron Russo's organizations. Aaron and I had a clear vision and were on the same page regarding the need for a very professional national forum in which the best independent media producers could gather. He and I both were very committed to helping independent producers amplify their voice and we felt that, if the alternative media could actually get it together, we could surpass the main stream media in readers, viewers and listeners. It was no doubt a tall order then and it remains so today. It's very difficult to get many of these folks to work together as they have agendas like most people in business. Money. Political leanings. Oh, and egos. That gets in the way too!
Aaron and I worked very well together and I do miss him. He passed on in the late summer of 2006 and I wasn't getting along so well with the people he handed the reins too, so I decided it was best to move on and do my own thing.
The new RepublicMedia.TV web portal was launched on June 22nd, 2009. We're very excited about the platform we've built and are very aggressively attempting to get independent media producers to "get it" and start using RMTV to promote and advance their works. That's what we're here for.
Wow. You're brand new. Talk a little about the nuts and bolts of RMTV Where do you get your writers from? What are you looking for in a writer? Any particular political slant or area of expertise?
As far as a slant, I guess you could say that we're primarily American citizens who feel that our country has been hijacked by special interests.... that includes the left and the right! The false two-party party system and the left-right paradigm that goes with it is simply a distraction from the bigger truth and that is that we have leadership in this country that by and large simply ignores the rule book. That rule book is called the Constitution. Most of our writers and TV/radio producers on RMTV come directly from this standpoint as constitutionalists. Lots of Libertarian-leaning content here. We're open to healthy and vibrant exchanges of ideas but the main line we try to promote is a return to basic Constitutional principles and this applies to all levels of government, local, state as well as national.
Bottom line is that our government which was supposed to be for the people, by the people, has become so corrupt that it seems we're stuck in a Terry Gilliam movie. It's just absurd, really. On the local level, community leaders have become so apathetic that they don't even realize the power that they have as a body anymore. America was built on the principles of a decentralized federal government that provided a few very basic services to the states with the real power being retained on a state and local level. We've gone completely topsy-turvey in America and are now borderline, if not fully, a fascist state pretending to still be the free republic our founding fathers envisioned.
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