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Public Lead - 8026580 - Male/female voice over for podcasts
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9-10 pages of copy
It has to be cut Friday at end of business for Saturday morning (should be emailed to us in mp3 format). Will be used to create a Podcast for a progressive non-profit.
Either gender is fine. Age should be 20-60. Clear English, without accent..
This may turn become a weekly project.
Budget has not yet been specified.
Mar 10, 2006 17:42:29 (GMT -05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) Mar 13, 2006 00:00:00 (GMT -05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) No (click here to learn more about
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It has to be cut Friday at end of business for Saturday morning (should be emailed to us in mp3 format). Will be used to create a Podcast for a progressive non-profit.
Either gender is fine. Age should be 20-60. Clear English, without accent..
This may turn become a weekly project.
Budget has not yet been specified.
Mar 10, 2006 17:42:29 (GMT -05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) Mar 13, 2006 00:00:00 (GMT -05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) No (click here to learn more about
)
Closed
124
124
0 direct invitation(s) have been sent by the voice seeker resulting in 0 audition(s) and/or proposal(s) so far.
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Commercials
English - North American
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Young Adult Female OR Young Adult Male OR Middle Age Female OR Middle Age Male OR Senior Female OR Senior Male
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Sample text:
It's always been tempting to think that media pay less attention to President Bush's lies about matters of life and death than they did to President Clinton's lies about a personal relationship because there existed videotape of a clear, concise lie by Clinton that could be replayed over and over by the broadcast media and endlessly quoted by their print counterparts. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," the thought went, was a simple, direct, unambiguously false statement -- so it lent itself to media coverage in a way that "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa" did not.
It's tempting to believe that the media's disparate focus on presidential lies during the last two administrations can be explained by these superficial differences -- but it's increasingly obvious that this explanation doesn't hold water.
As we recently explained, television news has virtually ignored Bush's April 2004 statement that "any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires ... a court order." That's a clear, concise statement -- as clear and concise as you'll hear from this president, anyway -- and it is unambiguously false, as we now know from Bush's own acknowledgements that he has authorized warrantless domestic spying. Yet the broadcast and cable news outlets that aired video of Clinton's Lewinsky lies so often you would have thought it was exclusive footage of a shark attacking a missing rich white woman who just won the lottery after leaving her fiancé at the altar ... those same news outlets virtually ignored the video of Bush's 2004 lie.
This week, newly disclosed videotape of a briefing in which President Bush was told, the day before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, that the possibility that the levees might not hold back stormwater was "a very, very grave concern." The newly disclosed videotapes and transcripts of Katrina briefings attended by Bush -- along with former FEMA head Michael D. Brown's statement that he had warned Bush that the levees could be breached -- clearly show that Bush's post-storm comment on ABC's Good Morning America, when he defended his poor response to Katrina by saying "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees," was a lie. People did anticipate the breach -- and they warned Bush about the possibility. He knew this at the time, and he lied. His lie was clear, concise, and videotaped. And his lie was about a matter of utmost importance: his government's failed response to a natural disaster that left hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents homeless, helpless, jobless, and hopeless -- and those were the ones lucky enough to live through the nightmare.
Yet news organizations virtually ignored Bush's Good Morning America lie. The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today left it out of their initial coverage of the new videotapes. CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield interviewed White House spokesman Trent Duffy about the new disclosures; during that interview, Duffy asserted that "the White House was very well aware and concerned about the integrity of the levees." Yet -- inexplicably -- Whitfield didn't bother to ask Duffy why, if that was true, Bush had claimed on Good Morning America that "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell also interviewed Duffy; like Whitfield, she also chose not to ask him about the president's lie. Even ABC World News Tonight anchor Elizabeth Vargas, during her March 1 report about the new evidence showing concern for the levees, decided not to mention the lie Bush told on her network.
The news organizations that did address Bush's Good Morning America lie tended to uncritically accept the administration's spin about the comment. CBS correspondent Bob Orr unquestioningly reported the White House's explanation that Katrina was a Category 3 storm when it made landfall, so nobody thought warnings of what could have happened had the storm been stronger were relevant. One problem: At the time, Katrina was assessed as a Category 4 storm -- it wasn't until months later that the storm was retroactively downgraded to Category 3. So the fact that the storm was only Category 3 can't possibly explain Bush's Good Morning America lie. Orr didn't tell his viewers any of that, though; he just said: "When Katrina hit, it was a Category 3. And what the White House is saying is that no one predicted that with a Cat 3 storm, that the levees would fail."
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It's always been tempting to think that media pay less attention to President Bush's lies about matters of life and death than they did to President Clinton's lies about a personal relationship because there existed videotape of a clear, concise lie by Clinton that could be replayed over and over by the broadcast media and endlessly quoted by their print counterparts. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," the thought went, was a simple, direct, unambiguously false statement -- so it lent itself to media coverage in a way that "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa" did not.
It's tempting to believe that the media's disparate focus on presidential lies during the last two administrations can be explained by these superficial differences -- but it's increasingly obvious that this explanation doesn't hold water.
As we recently explained, television news has virtually ignored Bush's April 2004 statement that "any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires ... a court order." That's a clear, concise statement -- as clear and concise as you'll hear from this president, anyway -- and it is unambiguously false, as we now know from Bush's own acknowledgements that he has authorized warrantless domestic spying. Yet the broadcast and cable news outlets that aired video of Clinton's Lewinsky lies so often you would have thought it was exclusive footage of a shark attacking a missing rich white woman who just won the lottery after leaving her fiancé at the altar ... those same news outlets virtually ignored the video of Bush's 2004 lie.
This week, newly disclosed videotape of a briefing in which President Bush was told, the day before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, that the possibility that the levees might not hold back stormwater was "a very, very grave concern." The newly disclosed videotapes and transcripts of Katrina briefings attended by Bush -- along with former FEMA head Michael D. Brown's statement that he had warned Bush that the levees could be breached -- clearly show that Bush's post-storm comment on ABC's Good Morning America, when he defended his poor response to Katrina by saying "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees," was a lie. People did anticipate the breach -- and they warned Bush about the possibility. He knew this at the time, and he lied. His lie was clear, concise, and videotaped. And his lie was about a matter of utmost importance: his government's failed response to a natural disaster that left hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents homeless, helpless, jobless, and hopeless -- and those were the ones lucky enough to live through the nightmare.
Yet news organizations virtually ignored Bush's Good Morning America lie. The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today left it out of their initial coverage of the new videotapes. CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield interviewed White House spokesman Trent Duffy about the new disclosures; during that interview, Duffy asserted that "the White House was very well aware and concerned about the integrity of the levees." Yet -- inexplicably -- Whitfield didn't bother to ask Duffy why, if that was true, Bush had claimed on Good Morning America that "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell also interviewed Duffy; like Whitfield, she also chose not to ask him about the president's lie. Even ABC World News Tonight anchor Elizabeth Vargas, during her March 1 report about the new evidence showing concern for the levees, decided not to mention the lie Bush told on her network.
The news organizations that did address Bush's Good Morning America lie tended to uncritically accept the administration's spin about the comment. CBS correspondent Bob Orr unquestioningly reported the White House's explanation that Katrina was a Category 3 storm when it made landfall, so nobody thought warnings of what could have happened had the storm been stronger were relevant. One problem: At the time, Katrina was assessed as a Category 4 storm -- it wasn't until months later that the storm was retroactively downgraded to Category 3. So the fact that the storm was only Category 3 can't possibly explain Bush's Good Morning America lie. Orr didn't tell his viewers any of that, though; he just said: "When Katrina hit, it was a Category 3. And what the White House is saying is that no one predicted that with a Cat 3 storm, that the levees would fail."
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