Julian Assange's TV series

[Bryn ap Gwilym]

In just a few hours time Julian Assange of Wikileaks will host the first TV series of 12 on/via RT News called The World Tomorrow.

This should now be the perfect opportunity to see how this guy ticks?

The World Tomorrow (http://assange.rt.com/)

[write4change]

Thanks for the heads up. I will give it a look.

[Cidersomerset]

Thanks Bryn ....Interesting debut for Julian as a interviewer , It was nice to put a human face on 'Hezbollah'
Nothing controvercial but a good insight to the problems of that tiny bit of biblical land....and I bet the
alphabet agencies are having a crash course on 'chicken slang'.....

[Bryn ap Gwilym]

Hi
I agree, it was nice to see the face & hear his view.
Not much if anything to write home about, but I guess that a diplomatic stance was adopted so not to rock the trigger happy boat from over yonder?

With a bit of luck the series will get juicier as it goes along.

[Bryn ap Gwilym]

It looks like the fun & games have started. The source link below also has the video footage of today's blacked out credits.


­Credits black-out?
The decision by Assange’s production crew to blur the show’s credits to protect themselves from possible threats by security agencies was “…a nice touch but there may also be serious political and legal reasons for this,” according to RT’s Crosstalk host Peter Lavelle.
Source (https://rt.com/news/assange-show-response-credits-mia-media-282/)


This is what the New York Times had to say about today's show.

The Prisoner as Talk Show Host
NYTimes (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/arts/television/julian-assange-starts-talk-show-on-russian-tv.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss)

[Rantaak]

He's on TV now? I guess we can all finally agree that this guy has become a puppet fear monger.

[Bryn ap Gwilym]

He's on TV now? I guess we can all finally agree that this guy has become a puppet fear monger.

Na, Not until all 12 shows have been watched can that conclusion be reached.

[jjjones]

don't know exactly what to make of this house arrest tv show; he is living on an estate, his esquire/attorney's group represents the rothschilds. does this add up? round and round we go! namaste, love and peace universally :)

[mountain_jim]

Well I try to keep an open mind about Julian's history and Wikileaks true purpose and controllers, but here is an article from a Constituional Law scholar and Writer I respect who points out certain things about the (corporate controlled) western media response to his show:


http://www.salon.com/2012/04/18/attacks_on_rt_and_assange_reveal_much_about_the_critics/singleton



Attacks on RT and Assange reveal much about the critics

A new news show hosted by Julian Assange debuted yesterday on RT, the global media outlet funded by the Russian government and carried by several of America’s largest cable providers. His first show was devoted to an interview with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (video below), who has not given a television interview since 2006. The combination of Assange and a Russian-owned TV network has triggered a predictable wave of snide, smug attacks from American media figures, attacks that found their purest expression in this New York Times review yesterday of Assange’s new program by Alessandra Stanely.

Much is revealed by these media attacks on Assange and RT — not about Assange or RT but about their media critics. We yet again find, for instance, the revealing paradox that nothing prompts media scorn more than bringing about unauthorized transparency for the U.S. government. As a result, it’s worth examining a few passages from Stanley’s analysis. It begins this way:




When Anderson Cooper began a syndicated talk show, his first guest was the grieving father of Amy Winehouse.



Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, unveiled a new talk show on Tuesday with his own version of a sensational get: the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

That contrast — between one of America’s Most Serious Journalists and Assange — speaks volumes already about who is interested in actual journalism and who is not. Then we have this, a trite little point, impressed by its own cleverness, found at the center of almost all of these sneering pieces on Assange’s new program:


Mr. Assange says the theme of his half-hour show on RT is “the world tomorrow.” But there is something almost atavistic about the outlet he chose. RT, first known as Russia Today, is an English-language news network created by the Russian leader Vladimir V. Putin in 2005 to promote the Kremlin line abroad. (It also broadcasts in Spanish and Arabic.) It’s like the Voice of America, only with more money and a zesty anti-American slant. A few correspondents can sound at times like Boris and Natasha of “Rocky & Bullwinkle” fame. Basically, it’s an improbable platform for a man who poses as a radical left-wing whistleblower and free-speech frondeur battling the superpowers that be.

Let’s examine the unstated premises at work here. There is apparently a rule that says it’s perfectly OK for a journalist to work for a media outlet owned and controlled by a weapons manufacturer (GE/NBC/MSNBC), or by the U.S. and British governments (BBC/Stars & Stripes/Voice of America), or by Rupert Murdoch and Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal (Wall St. Journal/Fox News), or by a banking corporation with long-standing ties to right-wing governments (Politico), or by for-profit corporations whose profits depend upon staying in the good graces of the U.S. government (Kaplan/The Washington Post), or by loyalists to one of the two major political parties (National Review/TPM/countless others), but it’s an intrinsic violation of journalistic integrity to work for a media outlet owned by the Russian government. Where did that rule come from?

Also, while it’s certainly true that the coverage of RT is at times overly deferential to the Russian government, that media outlet never mindlessly disseminated government propaganda to help to start a falsehood-fueled devastating war, the way that Alessandra Stanley’s employer (along with most leading American media outlets) did. When it comes to destruction brought about by uncritical media fealty to government propaganda, RT — as the Russia expert Mark Adomanis documented when American media figures began attacking RT – is far behind virtually all of the corporate employers of its American media critics.

Then there’s the notion that there’s something hypocritical about Assange’s working for a government-owned media outlet because he “poses as a radical left-wing whistleblower and free-speech frondeur battling the superpowers that be.” Actually, Assange has never presented him as anything other than as an advocate for transparency and adversarial journalism — of shining a light on the conduct of the world’s most powerful government and corporate factions — and if that goal can be fulfilled by using this media platform, how is that remotely hypocritical? Then there’s Stanley’s mockery of a “few” Russian “correspondents who can sound at times like Boris and Natasha of ‘Rocky & Bullwinkle’ fame”: that’s called having an accent in a language that isn’t your native one, and it’s rather petty, at best, to ridicule that as a means of undermining the credibility of RT’s journalism.

.... (more at link)

[Bryn ap Gwilym]

Well the bitchiness via the USA media about this Tv show is beyound childish.
Are we witnessing a tantrum that a bully throws when they don't get their own way because someone has stood up to them?


Greenwald to RT: American media have long loathed Julian Assange since he first came on the scene. What he did – bringing about transparency – is supposed to be what they do and the way in which he did it made more scoops about the US government than all the American media outlets combined. And yet they showed their true colors leading the attack against Julian Assange for exposing the US government.

Read the full article
https://rt.com/news/assange-greenwald-show-kremlin-487/


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