George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, author, and broadcaster, who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1987 and is known for his outspoken socialist and anti-Zionist views. He was a Labour Party MP for Glasgow Hillhead, and for Glasgow Kelvin, before his expulsion from the party in October 2003, and his subsequently becoming a a founding member of Respect. He currently represents the Bethnal Green and Bow constituency, having been most recently elected to that seat in 2005. Galloway is perhaps best known for his vigorous campaign to both overturn economic sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s and early 2000s, and to avert the 2003 invasion of that country, as well as for his speech before the then President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, in which he appeared to praise the Iraqi dictator, although Galloway actively opposed the regime until the United States-led Gulf War in 1991 and has always stated that he was addressing the Iraqi people.

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Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is an American journalist, author, and a television personality. He currently works as the primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360°. The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City studio; however, Cooper often broadcasts live on location for breaking news stories.

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Thea Andrews is a Canadian actress and TV personality best known for her stint as hostess of the ESPN2 show Cold Pizza (2003-2005). She used to host a Saturday night counter programming block against Hockey Night in Canada called Guys TV on TSN, and a Canadian cable show titled Cooking For Love. She is currently a correspondent on Entertainment Tonight.

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Mark Anthony Steines (born June 7, 1964) is an American broadcast journalist and a co-anchor of the syndicated gossip and entertainment round-up program Entertainment Tonight since 2004. He joined the show on August 24, 1995. In 1995 he started as a correspondent and substitute anchor at Entertainment Tonight. Prior to being selected as co-host, Steines was also anchor of Entertainment Tonight: Weekend and primary substitute anchor. In addition to his work as a broadcast journalist, Steines has done some acting. One of his roles was as a security guard in the movie Nixon (1995). Steines was the host of AOL's online reality television show "Gold Rush" in Fall 2006.

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Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American journalist, writer, and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), an evening news magazine (20/20), and co-anchor of ABC Evening News and correspondent on World News (then ABC Evening News). Walters was first known as a popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBC's Today, where she worked with Hugh Downs and later hosts Frank McGee and Jim Hartz. Walters later spent 25 years as co-host of ABC's newsmagazine 20/20. She was the first female co-anchor of network evening news, working with Harry Reasoner on the ABC Evening News and was later a correspondent for ABC World News Tonight.

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Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is an American television host, media mogul, philanthropist and occasional actress. Her internationally-syndicated talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, has earned her multiple Emmy Awards and is the highest-rated talk show in the history of television. She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African American of all time, and was once the world's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.

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Lawrence Harvey Zeiger (born November 19, 1933), better known by his stage name Larry King, is an American television and radio host. He is recognized in the United States as one of the premier broadcast interviewers of modern times. King has conducted some 40,000 interviews with politicians, athletes, entertainers and other newsmakers. He has won an Emmy Award, two Peabody Awards and ten Cable ACE Awards. King began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and '60s. He became prominent as an all-night national radio broadcaster starting in 1978, and then came to dominate the airwaves when he began hosting the nightly interview TV program Larry King Liveon CNN, which started in 1985.

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Rachel Anne Maddow (born April 1, 1973) is an American radio personality, television host, and liberal political commentator. Her syndicated talk radio program, The Rachel Maddow Show, airs on Air America Radio. Maddow also hosts a nightly television show, The Rachel Maddow Show, on MSNBC;she was formerly a guest host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann and other MSNBC shows.

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Lizo Mzimba born 6 December 1979, is the Entertainment Correspondent for BBC News. Prior to this, Mzimba was one of the longest-serving presenters, reporter and assistant producer for CBBC's Newsround between 1998 and May 2008; second only to John Craven himself. He attended the independent Solihull School (When he was also leader of the Birmingham Schools' Symphony Orchestra) and The University of Birmingham, starting as a medical student before changing courses and studying Law. He also served as editor of the University's student newspaper Redbrick and was a member of the Guild Television station, GTV. Mzimba was also a reporter for BBC TV's coverage of the 2005 UK General Election and the Barack Obama 2009 presidential inauguration.

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John Campbell has been a journalist for 20 years including as a fulltime political reporter based in the gallery in Wellington. He has covered six elections. In Campbell Live’s first year on-air in 2005 it won Qantas Television Awards ‘Investigation of the Year’ and ‘Best News Report Team Award’. In 2006 the programme won Qantas Television Awards ‘Best Current Affairs Series’ and ‘Best News or Current Affairs Presenter’. 2007 saw Campbell Live as again the finalist for ‘Best Current Affairs Series’, ‘Best News or Current Affairs Presenter’ and ‘Best Reporter’.

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