Today, on July 14, this memorable day, Kla.TV celebrates its 12th birthday!
The day is memorable because on July 14, 1789, angry citizens stormed the Bastille - the state prison in Paris at the time.
The king held his political opponents prisoner there.
The Bastille was therefore seen as a symbol of the unfair balance of power and arbitrary rule of the king.
Today we no longer have an absolutist king, but we still have a comparable unfair balance of power.
Namely because of the coercively financed state media and the excessive censorship.
This is precisely why Kla.TV launched its first program 12 years ago and took the media
landscape by storm - peacefully but effectively.
Now there are already well over 20,000 revealing broadcasts with hundreds of millions of views.
The channel for uncensored news and dissenting voices is now available in 87 languages around the world.
This is made possible by a huge team of employees who invest their free time every day on a voluntary
and unpaid basis with a great deal of joy and passion.
Be amazed and take a look behind the scenes for a few minutes.
The greatest birthday present you can give us is to connect with us physically.
Because in times of internet censorship, it is more important than ever that people know each other in
the real world and are not just connected digitally.
To do this, go to the link www.kla.tv/vernetzung.
A Kla.TV regional networker will get in touch with you.
Even if you would like to contribute your skills somewhere, please let our regional networkers know.
We will then give you an insight into our cooperation and the individual areas of Kla.TV.
Due to omission and one-sidedness in the reporting of the public service media, more and more people feel compelled
to step out of passivity and invest their often scarce free time in the dissemination of uncensored news.
In a veritable emergency program, this growing volunteer workforce is committed to spreading
important and indispensable dissenting voices worldwide.
Kla.TV puts in almost the same effort as the employees of the mainstream media.
But for their work they cannot fall back on the horrendous funds of over eight billion euros in broadcasting fees
that flow into the public broadcasters in Germany every year.
But they are amazed at what Kla.TV has built up with its commitment and without broadcasting fees.
Every day I read the newspaper, listen to the news in the mainstream media and get information online.
I often intuitively sense when something is wrong with a message.
Instead of getting angry or ranting, I research background information.
When the most unbelievable reports flutter into Kla.TV, the big work starts to check the article sources for
authenticity, rummaging through archives, conducting interviews with experts, questioning people involved, visiting places.
I work for the editorial team at Kla.TV and the great thing is that we work together as a team.
Our diversity beats the simplicity of the mass media.
Researching and writing entire texts is not my thing.
But supporting authors by shortening drafts that are too long inspires me.
Based on the main idea of a program, I look at what is really needed and what can be left out.
It just annoys me when a program says "Libya" instead of "Libya". Or when the grammatical cases are mixed up.
Does that bother you too? Then you've come to the right place in our team.
We make sure that such errors do not creep into a shipment.
As it happens from time to time that valuable dissenting voices are censored and deleted online, many helpers save these sources.
This means that they are still retained as evidence.
I help to scrutinize every programme before it is broadcast.
For example, I filter out if the author confuses the North Sea with the Baltic Sea in the heat of the writing
battle or if an animator has inserted the wrong country flag.
Matthias coordinates the Chur studio.
If, for example, the animators need visual material, he organizes helpers and keeps the film crew up to
date on when the text will be returned from proofreading.
Do your strengths lie in coordination and organization? Then join us!
I help with the media archive.
This is a gigantic pool of images, music and videos that we collect in order to show them in a program or film.
Many pictures were taken on vacation or while traveling and can help us to clarify what is being said in a program.
I enter a handful of suitable keywords for each program on the Kla.TV website.
And now every post on Kla.TV can be found under the right search term.
I learned how to edit programs on my own with the help of great and simple Kla.TV coachings.
I really enjoy it and it's easy to learn.
Take a look at this jingle here, for example. I've always wanted to work on movies.
I can be really creative here and create new things. And that's so extremely cool. Don't you want to be part of it too?
We are pensioners, both over 70, and we translate media commentaries into Russian.
We have learned to type and communicate by email. That's how we stay fit as pensioners.
As a passionate cameraman, I capture every event directly on location instead of just looking at it.
For example, when Merkel was there. This way, up-to-date images can be created, even photographs will do.
Grab your camera or cell phone and send your recordings to Kla.TV.
Is the sound too muffled? Too loud? Too quiet? Does it have too much bass? Or is it
distorted? Then the content won't get through.
If your heart beats for sound like mine, they still need many of us at Kla.TV.
I love drawing for Kla.TV.
It's really fun that we from little Iceland can be part of the big Kla.TV.
I built this counter here together with a colleague. It was great fun.
One day I want to build a really cool Kla.TV studio.
At Kla.TV, presenters and speakers are professionally trained by our coaches to work on their voice and posture,
to maintain direct eye contact with the audience and, above all, to become one with the text.
Want to take part? Get in touch with: www.kla.tv/vernetzung. Write "contribute" in the message.