We will combine breaking-news footage from around the world with reportage from some of the world’s best journalists, expanding from several news items per day to a 24/7 news website and daily news hour for television. What you are seeing now on TheRealNews.com is just a taste of what we can do when we are […]
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Interview with George Monbiot
Watch this four part interview on climate change
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Ferial Hafferjee
“You’re not going to see it on CNN” Story Transcript FERIAL HAFFERJEE, EDITOR, MAIL AND GUARDIAN, S. AFRICA: 2005 has been Africa’s year. It’s made global headlines, perhaps more so than the continent has in any decade before. In the grand world of spin, the months leading up to the G8 Summit were filled with […]
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Pamela de Maigret
Pamela de Maigret is a filmmaker, producer and journalist. Previously a foreign correspondent and US Congress liaison, she is currently writing a book about the disenfranchisement of the moderate center in American politics, drawing on her experience as a life-long Republican activist. Story Transcript PAMELA DE MAIGRET, JOURNALIST, PRODUCER, FILMMAKER: I was a loyal Republican. […]
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Interview with Amy Goodman
Independent media veteran Amy Goodman wants “a media that celebrates dissent, that is a sanctuary of dissent – because that’s what will make this country healthy, and that’s what will make us safer, here … and around the world.” Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a TV and radio show […]
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Sashi Kumar
Sashi Kumar is a renowned journalist, producer and news anchor. He is Chair of the Media Development Foundation (Chennai, India).
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Salih Booker
Salih Booker: “[The Real News] would offer the possibility of more diverse perspectives, of a larger range of stories on Africa, Asia and Latin America, but also how those stories relate to stories in the US, Canada and Europe.”
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Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders: “Something like [The Real News] could work today like no other project could have worked before.”
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Interview with Dr. David Suzuki
He states that the media has to take responsibility for the fact that there is a notion that the issue of climate change is still controversial, even though the vast majority of climatologists in the world say something must be done. Story Transcript DR. DAVID SUZUKI, ENVIRONMENTALIST AND BROADCASTER: In the United States, there has […]
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George Monbiot on solutions to global warming
Monbiot shares his research on the world’s most innovative ideas for change Story Transcript PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR: Talk about the eight or nine practical proposals you make in the book. GEORGE MONBIOT, AUTHOR: Okay. So what I’ve done is to look at every major economic sector, and to say within that sector how are […]
