The World Tomorrow

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Television broadcast
Original title The World Tomorrow
The world tomorrow logo.png
Country of production United Kingdom , Russia
original language English
year 2012
Production
company		 Quick Roll Productions
Dartmouth Films
length 26 minutes
Episodes 12 (including 1 [Episode 8] as a two-part, uncut version available on the website) in 1 season
Broadcasting
cycle		 weekly
genre Talk show (political; international)
Theme music MIA
idea Julian Assange
music MIA
Moderation Julian Assange
First broadcast April 17, 2012 on RT

The World Tomorrow , also known as The Julian Assange Show , was a political talk show broadcast by Russian state broadcaster RT in 2012 . It consisted of 26-minute discussions in which the founder and spokesman of WikiLeaks , Julian Assange , interviewed well-known " politicians , revolutionaries , intellectuals , artists and visionaries " via video conference . This procedure was offered because Assange was under house arrest in England . Before it first aired on April 17, 2012, 12 episodes were produced in advance. The episodes broadcast are available on the Internet.

As a justification for the first broadcast of his program on Russia Today, Assange said that he regretted that Al-Jazeera is specifically not offered in one target area, the United States , unlike RT, and that otherwise it has hardly found a suitable partner for the broadcast.

The talk show was produced by Assange's own company Quick Roll Productions in collaboration with Dartmouth Films , the music was from the Tamil-British rapper M.IA. Journeyman Pictures was responsible for further licensing to other media .

The broadcast's premiere coincided with the five hundredth day of WikiLeaks' financial deadlock. It is available in English, Spanish and Arabic, later episodes also in Italian and Russian.

List of individual shipments

No title First broadcast Guests Ref.
1 Nasrallah April 17, 2012 Hassan Nasrallah
2 Horowitz-Zizek April 24, 2012 Slavoj Žižek
David Horowitz
3 Marzouki May 1, 2012 Moncef Marzouki
4th Alaa Nabeel May 8, 2012 Alaa Abd El-Fattah
Nabeel Rajab
5 Cageprisoners 15 May 2012 Moazzam Begg
Asim Qureshi
6th Correa May 22, 2012 Rafael Correa
7th Occupy May 29, 2012 David Graeber
Marisa Holmes
Alexa O'Brien
Aaron Peters
Naomi Colvin
8th Cypherpunks 1 5th June 2012 Andy Müller-Maguhn
Jérémie Zimmermann
Jacob Appelbaum
9 Cypherpunks 2 June 12, 2012 Andy Müller-Maguhn
Jérémie Zimmermann
Jacob Appelbaum
10 khan June 19, 2012 Imran Khan
11 Chomsky-Ali June 26, 2012 Noam Chomsky
Tariq Ali
12 Anwar 3rd July 2012 Anwar Ibrahim

Guests

The guest of the first episode was Hassan Nasrallah , Secretary General of Hezbollah , and the interview was also dubbed in German by Russia Today. Among other things, Nasrallah offered to mediate in the Syrian civil war in the course of the conversation .

In the second program, the Slovenian intellectual Slavoj Žižek and the American author David Horowitz , two very different people in their political views, appeared. The discussion was turbulent, but also humorous.

The third episode was played with Moncef Marzouki , the interim president of Tunisia. Topics of the program were human rights and torture as well as the double standards claimed by the West for these complexes.

Guests on the fourth show were two Arab Spring activists : Egyptian political blogger Alaa Abd el-Fattah and Nabeel Rajab , president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights , an NGO . Nabeel Rajab was arrested in Bahrain the weekend before the broadcast.

Other guests were the Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim , Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali . Assange regretted that it was not possible to conduct interviews with Ai Weiwei , who fears repression by the Chinese state, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky , who is in custody .

reception

The journalist and blogger Robert Mackey criticized on his blog in the New York Times that Assange had decided to work with a Russian broadcaster close to the government. In Russia, 52 journalists critical of the government have been murdered in the past 20 years , including Anna Politkovskaya . Assange defended his decision by arguing that WikiLeaks' "main political confrontation" was "with the West" and that Russia Today was chosen as the voice of Russia.

In an article for the English Guardian , journalist Luke Harding described Assange as a "useful idiot" of Moscow propaganda. Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com and Mark Adomanis at Forbes Magazine praised the talk show and turned against its critics on the New York Times and the Guardian . Assange himself published a text on the WikiLeaks website in which he parodies criticism of himself and the talk show.

Both the FAZ and Spiegel Online criticized the fact that Assange had behaved too uncritically towards his first interlocutor, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah . According to Ole Reissmann (Spiegel Online), the absurdity of the broadcast could hardly be surpassed and it was therefore seamlessly integrated into the overall RT program. The interview made headlines around the world as Nasrallah rarely gives interviews to Western media. Commentators described the choice of topics as "coup" or "scoop". In the USA, the show was awarded the silver medal at the 2013 New York Festival World's Best TV & Films . The Independent called RT a platform, fitting Assange, for harsh criticism of American politics. RT had interviewed Assange several times and defended him against the allegations from Sweden, which RT believed to be politically motivated.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Der Standard on April 15, 2012: Julian Assange starts his own TV show. Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  2. ^ The World Tomorrow - Pre-Show interview revealed. Retrieved September 1, 2012 .
  3. ^ The World Tomorrow at WikiLeaks. Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Russia Today on April 13, 2012: Assange show premiere: Time to watch 'The World Tomorrow'. Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  5. ^ Die Presse.com on April 16, 2012: Wikileaks founder starts talk show series. Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  6. ^ The World Tomorrow at WikiLeaks. Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Episode 1 . WikiLeaks. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
  8. ↑ Episode 2 . WikiLeaks. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
  9. ↑ Episode 3 . WikiLeaks. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
  10. ↑ Episode 4 . WikiLeaks. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
  11. ↑ Episode 5: Cageprisoners . WikiLeaks. Retrieved May 19, 2012.
  12. ↑ Episode 6: Correa . WikiLeaks. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
  13. ↑ Episode 7: Occupy . WikiLeaks. Retrieved June 5, 2012.
  14. ↑ Episode 8 . WikiLeaks. Retrieved June 7, 2012.
  15. ↑ Episode 9 . WikiLeaks. Retrieved June 11, 2012.
  16. ↑ Episode 10 . WikiLeaks.
  17. ↑ Episode 11 . WikiLeaks.
  18. ↑ Episode 12 . WikiLeaks.
  19. ↑ Julian Assange's The World Tomorrow: Hassan Nasrallah RT 18.4. - Part 1
  20. ↑ a b Spiegel online on April 17, 2012: Talk show on Russian TV. Julian Assange fails because of Hezbollah boss. Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  21. ↑ BBC News online on April 17, 2012: Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah chief, offers Syria mediation. Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  22. ↑ Gulli.com on 32 April 2012: The World Tomorrow: Second episode with two guests. Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  23. ↑ Digital Journal on April 24, 2012: Assange - 'The World Tomorrow' - Ep. 2: Zizek & Horowitz (video). Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  24. ↑ Tunisialive on May 2, 2012: WikiLeaks' Julian Assange interviews Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki. Archived from the original on May 3, 2012 ; accessed on May 4, 2012 .
  25. ↑ Digital Journal on May 1, 2012: 'The World Tomorrow' - Ep 3: Assange & Tunisian president (video). Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  26. ↑ Digital Journal on May 8, 2012: 'The World Tomorrow' Ep 4. Rajab & El-Fattah: Arab Spring (video). Retrieved May 8, 2012 .
  27. ^ Deutschlandradio on May 6, 2012: Bahrain: Well-known human rights activist arrested. Retrieved May 8, 2012 .
  28. ^ Brisbane Times on April 14, 2012: Assange set to release TV talk show. Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  29. ↑ WikiLeaks via Twitter on February 1, 2012: Assange interviews Chomsky & Taraq Ali on Friday. What questions do you want him to ask? Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  30. ↑ a b FAZ online on April 17, 2012: Julian Assange goes on air. Obscurant meeting on Russian television. Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  31. ^ Robert Mackey in the New York Times on April 13, 2012: Assange TV, Presented by the Kremlin. Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  32. ↑ Welt Online on April 17, 2012: "Our most important opponent is the West". Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  33. ^ The Guardian on April 17, 2012: Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  34. ^ Greenwald in Salon.com on April 18, 2012: Attacks on RT and Assange reveal much about the critics. Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  35. ↑ Mark Adomanis at Forbes.com on April 18, 2012: Julian Assange's Debut on Russia Today - The Serious People Say it Was Really Bad! Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  36. ↑ Julian Assange: Smear and Enjoy. Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
  37. ↑ Piece # 1 - The Julian Assange Show with Hassan Nasrallah. In: New York Festivals. Retrieved April 14, 2014 .
  38. ↑ Ole Reissmann: Talk show on Russian TV: Julian Assange fails because of Hezbollah boss . In: Spiegel Online . April 17, 2012 ( spiegel.de [accessed April 23, 2019]).
  39. ↑ Jerome Taylor, Hello, Good Evening and Welcome to My Country House Prison: Assange Makes His Talk Show Debut , The Independent , April 18, 2012.
  40. ^ Raphael Satter, Assange interviews Hezbollah leader in TV premiere , Associated Press via Denver Post , April 17, 2012.
  41. ↑ Assange chats with terrorist , Agence France-Presse , April 18, 2012.
  42. ↑ Mark Adomanis, Julian Assange's Debut on Russia Today - The Serious People Say it Was Really Bad! , Forbes , April 18, 2012.
  43. ^ New York Festivals - 2013 World's Best Television & Films ™ Winners. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
  44. ↑ "Working for a Kremlin channel does not seem like an obvious choice for Mr Assange, who has devoted his life to fighting governmental opacity, but Russia Today has made a name for itself as a strident critic of US policy." - Assange takes chat-show job with state-funded Russian TV , 2012