Author Gore Vidal discusses the state of television news and democracy: “There are so many questions that television refuses to take up — much less answer.”
Gore Vidal: On TheREALnews Pt. 2
Author Gore Vidal discusses the state of television news and democracy: “There are so many questions that television refuses to take up — much less answer.”
Gore Vidal: On TheREALnews Pt. 1
Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels and has written films including the classics Ben-Hur and Suddenly, Last Summer. He is recently the author of The Last Empire and Inventing a Nation.
Introduce the world to The Real News Network
Download The Brochure We invite you to print it and distribute it widely to libraries, shops, and restaurants – anywhere they’ll let you leave it. (Show it to your friends too, and encourage them to become members.) And if, along the way, you have any good conversations about The Real News, tell us about them […]
Welcome Citizen Journalists
We do not yet have the resources to process general submissions from Citizen Journalists, but we are inviting submissions in one specific area: If you have research or footage related to cell phone technology and human health, we invite you to fill out the “submit story” form below. If you like, you can choose to […]
Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders: “Something like [The Real News] could work today like no other project could have worked before.”
See the patterns
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 […]
Interview with George Monbiot
Watch this four part interview on climate change
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 […]
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. […]