About Earth TV

David Lionel / Management

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Earth Television
Public Education Foundation
Mission Statement

About David Lionel
Earth Television Chairman David Lionel is a veteran video producer and editor who has helped pioneer the evolution
of citizen TV since 1967. Besides offering broadcast
consulting services, he also continues to finalize and package
the first three of his sixteen World Citizen Videobooks, in preparation for their web marketing worldwide
as DVDs.

One is The Patch Adams Story, which features the famous clown
doctor presenting his ideas and experiences working out a new
model for community delivery of health care services.

The second is The 9/11 Coup Reversing Neo-Con Takeover. A majority of Americans doubt the truth of the official story of what exactly happened during and who caused the 9/11/01 events. Yet this questionable narrative has justified wars on two sovereign nations, the endless War on Terror, and a drastic curtailing of civil liberties. This video offers psychologically sensitive and politically sophisticated ways for citizen action to restore Constitutional government to America.

The third is called Action Agenda for the Earth. It proposes
a planetary development program that national governments,
the UN, and civil society could institute globally to meet
the needs of all humans and preserve the biosphere.

His documentary videobooks portray several of the
historic UN civil society forums of the past twenty-five
years, including the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio,
the 1996 City Summit in Istanbul, and the
2000 Millennium Forum in New York.

“Reinventing the United Nations,” an article he co-authored, appeared in the September 2006 Foreign Service Journal.

David is seasonally bicoastal, maintaining a post-production capacity in Los Angeles and a residence in upstate New York.

Earth Television Public Education Foundation ~ Our Mission

Earth Television Public Education Foundation’s mission is to empower
social movements and civil society groups to effectively advocate
their views and deliver the message of their gatherings directly to
the public through sponsored TV programming. We consult with event producers on creating reusable TV shows, financing strategies,
sponsor development, advertising and PR, audience enrollment,
local and national distribution, and global broadcast outreach.
We provide practical solutions to reach broad audiences affordably.

These days, multiple camcorder operators routinely record major
gatherings for free, usually producing highly watchable source material.
This requires only synchronization and shortening for immediate use.
The key needed addition is sponsored funding. By working with these
volunteer videographers to help them immediately produce completed
programs for broadcast, non-profits can dramatically increase their
outreach and effectiveness. Civic happenings should routinely plan to conclude only when the sponsored highlights TV show reaches a mass audience.

A more ambitious level of this television strategy involves showing
larger civic networks how to sustainably fund local broadcast of
themed sets of completed documentaries on politically controversial
topics the mainstream media will not cover. Widely promoted and
selectively advertised, such topical TV series, telecast back to back
during the early evening, could have a major municipal impact.
Readily available regional air time is free on public access or
surprisingly cheap for infomercial cable slots or on UHF TV channels.
Sponsors may insert Public Service Announcements or good news
segments illustrating their causes and projects, while listing website addresses and 800 #s inviting viewer responses.

As these sets of programs start to steadily deliver a sizable viewership,
they provide a niche for inserting rebroadcasts of significant event
highlights shows on related themes. Using commercial television
channels for public education and civic mobilization can catalyze
mainstream media coverage and successfully influence policy makers.