The magazine introduces a list of 100 female tweeters around the world that everyone should follow; RT’s Lucy Kafanov makes the Top 9 list for ALL-AROUND NEWS AND VIEWS.
“Lucy Kafanov (@LucyKafanov) -- Self-described "voracious consumer of stories neglected by mainstream media." Lucky for us, she shares those stories too.”
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Max Keiser, the host of RT’s The Keiser Report, is named ‘the most dangerous person in financial media’ by Joshua Brown, in his Huffington Post blog. The Keiser Report is a finance- and markets-focused program that has aired on RT since 2009. Mr. Brown is a financial blogger for The Huffington Post, author and frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, CNBC and Forbes.
“Dangerous in a good way -- these are the financial media players who are making things very difficult for the establishment to maintain the status quo. Because we tried it their way, allowing the banks and other corporations to write the laws and make all of our decisions for us. Turns out, that's not true democracy or capitalism, it's something else entirely, and we've all had enough. These are the folks leading the charge to take it back.”
“1. Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert (The Keiser Report) While other news personalities report on the Greek riots from the shelter of a luxury hotel's rooftop, Max and Stacy and down in the square with flak jackets, gas masks and a camera rolling despite the bedlam taking place all around them. When other pundits lament the lack of regulation, Max and Stacy call for the bank executives' heads to roll. No one speaks with more candor and no one speaks with more courage on behalf of all of us - the victims of the most infamous unpunished heist in world history.”
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Adam Forrest’s exclusive interview with Margarita Simonyan, Editor-in-Chief of RT, on the subject of the network’s growing reach and whether it is “just Kremlin-backed propaganda, or an alternative viewpoint in today's geopolitics.”
“The Russia Today news channel is establishing itself as a global media force.”
“Appointed in 2005 when she was just 25, Simonyan spent time as a student in the US. She is the youngest head of a global news channel. Is it possible for her network to retain independence while funded by government? “No less than the BBC World Service is funded by the Foreign Office. We are funded from the budget of the Russian Federation, approved by the Russian parliament. Not even once has anyone from the parliament or the department of foreign affairs come to see us about editorial policies.”
“(MS): “I’m happy we give people whom the mainstream media ignore an opportunity to get their voice heard,” she continues. “Our audience is happy about it too... [they are happy they can hear] the questions raised by experts some of the other media prefer to call ‘fringe’. A lot of people are starting to understand the world is not as one-sided as they are used to seeing it, and they are starved for the other side.””
“Russian media expert and LSE scholar Gregory Asmolov is impressed by RT’s ambitious expansion online and describes Simonyan as a “talented editor” working with a “very professional” team. “I would assume there is no direct regular engagement from the Kremlin, but certainly there is a concept being followed, a general editorial policy that justifies the government funding,” he says. “You cannot avoid the judgment… that it reflects the interests of the Kremlin.””
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