RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS DISCOVER POWER OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT: Special Video Report (15 min)

Los Angeles, CA In a Special Internet Report entitled“Russian Journalists Discover The First Amendment”the Full Disclosure Network® presents a fifteen-minute video featuring prominent U.S. Political authorities and five visiting Russian journalists who questioned the Full Disclosure Network® if the independent network has experienced opposition from U. S. political authorities.

The Russian visitors were part of a tour sponsored by the United States Library of Congress “Open World”program and facilitated by the International Visitors Council of Los Angeles. Meeting with Full Disclosure producers Leslie Dutton and T. J. Johnston the journalists specifically wanted to know details about the relationship between government authorities and the independent Full Disclosure Network.

The video reveals the sincere and heartwarming reaction of the Russian journalists after they learned, from Full Disclosure of the reaction by authorities to specific programs where conflicts and failed public policies were exposed.

Video clips from those programs feature political authorities:

• Richard Thornburgh, Former U.S. Attorney General
• Ken Starr, Presidential Prosecutor
• Robert Woodward, Journalist-Author
• Steve Cooley, Los Angeles District Attorney
• Roger Carrick, Special Legal Counsel to LAUSD Office of Inspector General

Visiting Russian Journalists featured in video are:

• Ms. Mariya Ramazanovna Abubakarova, Chief Editor, Grozny City Newspaper
• Ms. Kseniya Aleksandrovna Anufriyeva, Editor, Commentator, Mir Television Station
• Ms. Tamara Bessmertnaya, Senior Editor Almazny Krai Television & Radio
• Mr. Dimitriy Leonidovich Sokolov, Deputy Chief Editor, Editorial Board Ryazan News
• Ms. Matalya Romanovna Volina, Correspondent, Vostochno-Sibirskaya Pravda News
• Ms. Irina Vladimirovna Shcherbinina, Facilitator for the Library of Congress

Some of the topics covered with the journalists:

• Is there any power (official) that you (fear) to cover?
• Do your programs report on events or do they foresee events?
• How do you cover Presidential politics?

The full length program covering this meeting is to be featured on 45 cable systems a complete listing of channels and airtimes, by community can be found on our Channels page.

KEN REICH ON L.A. TIMES COVERAGE OF ISRAELI – PALESTINIAN CONFLICT: Watch Video Here (27 min)

Los Angeles, CA The Full Disclosure Network® is re-releasing part one of a two-part interview with noted journalist, Ken Reich a long time staff writer with the Los Angeles Times, who passed away on Monday, June 30, 2008. This part-one of the 2002 interview covers the issue of bias of the Times coverage of the Israeli—Palestinian conflict and was originally featured on 45 cable television systems but is now being made available for the first time on the Internet. Watch the full show here (27 min)

Ken Reich first joined the Los Angeles Times staff in 1965, and during his 39 year career he served as a general assignment reporter, a political writer, a lead Olympics writer, Atlanta Bureau Chief and even Editor of the Op Ed page. He started out covering the Presidential campaigns of Eugene McCarthy and George Wallace, and went on to cover Jimmy Carter’s campaign in 1976. He had a distinguished academic career and travelled extensively to the Far East, India, Oman, Baharan, and United Arab Emirates. He visited 79 countries throughout the world.

Ken Reich appeared on numerous Full Disclosure® programs to defend and explain how the Los Angeles Times covers some of the most important issues of the day. Here are few of the questions fielded by Ken Reich in this program.

• Are Times reporters required to have knowledge of the people and the area they are covering?
• When assigning a reporter to cover the Holy Land, who decides what they should cover? Are their stories scrutinized for choice of words, coloring of the article?
• How is it a Times reporter refers to a “suicide bomber” while administration officials refer to the same incident as a “homicide bomber”?
• Is there a need to have “equal” coverage to the Palestinian point of view?
• How is the Jewish community receiving the Times coverage of the conflict?

Exclusive: Television Interview With Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona (Online Video Preview 10 min)

Los Angeles, CA. The Full Disclosure Network® presents an exclusive two-part interview with Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona videotaped a few days after his arraignment in Federal Court on political corruption charges. The programs are featured on 45 cable systems (channel listings here) starting Wednesday, December 12th and will be available in their entirety on the Internet FREE for a short period of time from the http://www.fulldisclosure.net/ home page. Thereafter, the Internet access will be available to Full Disclosure subscribers only.

WATCH THE PREVIEW HERE NOW

Preview 10:30 min (click here)

The following issues are discussed with Sheriff Carona and legal experts:

· Circumstances of his indictment, and arraignment
· Media coverage of the case ,
· Prosecutor tactics
· The Sheriff’s prospects in the upcoming trial.

Featured in the interview programs are:

· Mike Carona, Sheriff Orange County
· Anthony Patchett, Former Special Assistant Los Angeles District Attorney
· Stanley Goldman, Professor Loyola Law School
· Leslie Dutton: Moderator

Known as “the news behind the news” Full Disclosure Network® cable television programs are featured on 45 cable systems and the Internet since 1992 and produced by host Leslie Dutton and Producer T. J. Johnston. In 2002 the Full Disclosure® special series “L. A.’s War Against Terrorism” was recognized by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a local Emmy Award for a public affairs, informational series. Channels and airtimes can be found on the website at http://www.fulldisclosure.net/

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Media Ethics, School Bonds & More: Sunday On L.A. Cable Channel 36

Los Angeles, CA Full Disclosure Network® presents a special two-part Video News Blog series on “Hot Button” issues this Sunday on L.A. Cable Channel 36 and on 45 cable television systems, please check dates and times by community.


Please note the air times and dates on L.A. Cable Channel 36

• PART 1 8 p.m. Sunday, December 2, 2007
  4 p.m. Monday, December 2, 2007
• PART 2 8:30 p.m. Sunday, December 3, 2007
  4:30 p.m. Monday, December 3, 2007
  
  Videos available here on Internet click on the title links below.
  
  PART 1
  News Black Out Bond Vote Scam Jarvis Taxpayers & David Tokofsky (LAUSD)
  Concealed Weapon Permits? Sheriff Leroy Baca vs Sheriff Mike Carona
  Left vs Right Journalism Brent Bozell vs Murray Fromson (CBS retired)
  
  PART 2
  Bob Woodward vs Edwin Meese, III on use of un-named Sources
  School Corruption Sparks Citizen Revolt in California
  Mini Documentary on the "FULL DISCLOSURE NETWORK"
  

Full Disclosure Network® has been billed as "the news behind the news" for the past fifteen years and is produced by Leslie Dutton & T. J. Johnston. In 2002 the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awarded a local public affairs Emmy for the Full Disclosure® Series “L.A.’s War Against Terrorism” featuring LAPD Chief Parks, Lt. Ken Hillman, Sheriff Baca and Councilman Mark-Ridley Thomas.