Read what the media is saying about The Real News Network: On The Real With Chuck D January 25, 2009 On The Real With Chuck D The On The Real Off The Record crew Host Chuck D. The socio-cultural, sometimes political talk extravaganza. Chuck D interviewed Paul Jay and Sharmini Peries {audio}http://www.therealnews.com/scripts/chuckd.mp3{/audio} Huffington Post December 15,    2008 Meet the Man Trying To Change The Face of The American Media Head of 'The Real News' network Paul Jay is trying to save the news media, one viewer at a time. Horrified at the corporate media's acquiescence to the White House during 9/11 and the run up to the war in Iraq, Jay decided to set up his own organization to provide the public with real, unadulterated journalism that would effectively challenge power regardless of the political environment. The Age August 16, 2007 News without the sponsors An independent news website aims to tell it like it is, writes Michael Dwyer. Buzz Flash Interviews Paul Jay July 24, 2007 New BuzzFlash interview with Paul Jay Paul explains the 'Real' in The Real News. YouTube February 17 , 2007 An NCMR07 interview with Paul Jay Paul talks about how The Real News will be produced. Daily Kos interviews Paul Jay January 6, 2007 "We want all of you!": Interview with Paul Jay, Part 5 of 5 Paul makes an appeal for supporters. Daily Kos interviews Paul Jay January 4, 2007 "Seeking truth, not balance": Interview with Paul Jay, Part 4 of 5 Why The Real News has shied away from the limelight. Daily Kos interviews Paul Jay January 3, 2007 "We'll go where the facts take us": Interview with Paul Jay, Part 3 of 5 Paul is followed on a fact-finding tour. Daily Kos interviews Paul Jay January 2, 2007 "Oh, you mean the REAL news!": Interview with Paul Jay, Part 2 of 5 Paul puts the REAL in The Real News. Daily Kos interviews Paul Jay January 1, 2007 "Go big or go home": Interview with Paul Jay, Part 1 of 5 The interview highlights the prehistory of IWT/TRN, the courageous TV network that will search out the truth and bring it to a worldwide audience, uncompromised by money from corporations, advertisers or governments. Business2.0 magazine selects The Real News as one of the seven revolutions of 2007. November, 2006 Ad-free news covers the globe "What if there were a cable channel that married the best of PBS and CNN - that is, 24-hour world news with a global network of correspondents, but paid for by viewers rather than advertisers? That's the idea behind Independent World Television and its flagship show The Real News, the brainchild of Canadian TV producer Paul Jay." Dialogue magazine April, 2006 Following the progress of IWT (Nanaimo, BC) Paul Jay elaborates on the vision and plans for The Real News to be launched in 2007; he introduces a new Video Interview with David Suzuki, featured on the website at www.iwtnews.com.The business plan of IWT notes "the perilous times we live in" and asserts that "Democracy depends on an informed public and a courageous press... We must not sleepwalk into war or tyranny.The world situation is too dangerous to not know the complexity of things. We need television journalism that dares to seek truth and does not bow to pressure. We need The Real News." This Magazine reports on IWT. January, 2006 INDEPENDENTLY YOURS Paul Jay has a plan to make TV what it was meant to be. But is bias so easily banished? Air America Radio: The Laura Flanders Show (MP3 audio file) July 31, 2005 Can we have new TV? LAURA FLANDERS, Host: "A conversation about what's possible and what you can do, with civil rights veteran James Early, an advisor for the new Latin American network Telesur, and Paul Jay, the founder of Independent World Television, a project that's trying to change the face of media." The Globe and Mail July 4, 2005 Build it and they will watch? "Fed up with the platitudinous news coverage he felt he was being fed by mainstream network and cable TV, documentary maker Paul Jay came up with an ambitious solution. In just over a year, the Toronto-based Jay plans to raise roughly $25-million to launch a new network, Independent World TV." See Magazine (Edmonton) June 30, 2005 By the people, for the people "Independent World Television wants to make media what it should be, $50 bucks at a time. Unless you‚ have been living at the bottom of a coalmine without a cable connection for the last five years, you already know that North America‚ as major news media are in trouble." Air America Radio: Marty Kaplan (MP3 audio file) June 25, 2005 I want my IWT "Sick of screaming at your TV when a news cable channel is on? Have no fear, IWT is here. Marty talks to Paul Jay, founder of the new international news network Independent World Television." La Presse (Montreal) June 22, 2005 L'information a but non lucratif "Une nouvelle chaine d'information internationale est en gestation. Au nom de l'integrite journalistique et de la 'vraie' information, elle ne sera financee ni par les grandes societes ni par les gouvernements, mais par les telespectateurs eux-memes." Variety June 22, 2005 Vidal keen on news "It was a tight squeeze inside agent Paul Alan Smith's BevHills high-rise for 'An Evening With Gore Vidal.' Some 200 guests, including Mace Neufeld, Roger Corman, Haskell Wexler and George Schlatter, crammed in to hear Vidal talk about what ails the world and how a few Canadians could make a difference." Variety June 22, 2005 New TV news net gets coin: Upstart taps online resources to raise funds "Independent World TV (IWT), a new TV news network, is poised to launch in a bid to provide independent and unbiased reporting around the world." Hollywood Reporter June 21, 2005 Nascent IWT net would rely on subs "In the next few rounds, Paul Jay is taking on such U.S. news-gathering giants as Fox News and CNN by launching in 2007 Independent World Television, a global news network funded by supporters, not corporations or commercial advertising. He was in Los Angeles Monday to attend a donor party hosted by Gore Vidal at the home of agent Paul Allen Smith." Guardian Unlimited June 20, 2005 An antidote to corporate television "Independent World Television (IWT) plans to create a news network that will counter a corporate media culture that has become infamous for placing profits above the public interest. The mission is to convince an "internet army" of half a million donors to contribute $50 each to secure the $25m that the network needs to fund its first year of broadcasting. It is a big ask. The network will take no commercials, sponsorship or government funding." MIT Technology Review June 17, 2005 DIY TV "Most discussions of citizen journalism assume that the Internet is the best medium for people who want to come together to produce news stories. But a new media company has a vision that's more, well, visual: it hopes to bring the concept of citizen journalism to television."