A sound-bite blitzkrieg that challenges the messages we have been fed from our mainstream media and the government it serves. You may never be able to look at September 11 and its post-impact coverage the same way, ever again.
GNN was co-founded by Stephen Marshall and Josh Shore in the summer of 2000. The partners first joined forces at MTV (Josh had brought Stephen in to consult on some radical television ideas for the station) when they finally realized that the mainstream networks would never allow their hi-impact brand of television content and design to reach prime time. GNN's inaugural project was a NewsVideo called The Diamond Life. Completed in the fall of 2000, the video features the music of Peter Gabriel and was produced in conjunction with his non-profit organization, WITNESS.
Since then, the company has grown quickly, rounding out the core partnership with with renowned journalist Anthony Lappé and investment banker turned producer Ian Inaba. Working with San Francisco-based Switch Technologies, who have developed a unique open-source web publishing system, GNN's group of syndicate writers have been empowered to self-publish their articles and videos without the need of HTML coders.
Defining themselves as a cutting-edge, underground news service, GNN has grown its critical mass audience from approximately an initial 300 unique visitors/day to over 25,000 during the Iraq war. Their first DVD compilation, Ammo For The Info-Warrior (play trailer: broadband, mediumband) features NewsVideos that have received hundreds of thousands of views on the net. Among them is the Sundance-Award winning short, Crack The CIA and the 2003 Media That Matters Film Festival Media Activism Award winner, Copwatch. Most recently, the group completed AfterMath, a major documentary production investigating the unanswered questions surrounding 9/11. Since its release in January, 2003, AfterMath has played in festivals and at public venues across the United States and Europe and has been translated into four languages.
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