I was already thinking of the differences between 'liberal' mainstream western media and Russian media, such as RT, before I came across this.
Everybody with a little intelligence and an open mind can see the difference between western media that can't even mention RT without saying "Kremlin-controlled" and telling us what we need to think by expressions such as "Russian controlled rebels" and the like. Western media is full of innuendo and loaded statements
RT is refreshingly free of this. The only example, that jars on me, is the constant referral to the "self-proclaimed" republics of Lugansk and Donetsk. All RT has to do in its "propaganda" is to point out the hypocrisy and hypocrisy, that is present in spadefools.
The writing is on the wall with this statement from US state media (I didn't know there was such as thing in the "Land of the Free") that RT will be banned in countries like Britain and the US as a "terrorist entity".
Go onto Twitter and support RT at #NewsIsNotTerror
Head of US state media put RT on same challenge list as ISIS, Boko Haram
Everybody with a little intelligence and an open mind can see the difference between western media that can't even mention RT without saying "Kremlin-controlled" and telling us what we need to think by expressions such as "Russian controlled rebels" and the like. Western media is full of innuendo and loaded statements
RT is refreshingly free of this. The only example, that jars on me, is the constant referral to the "self-proclaimed" republics of Lugansk and Donetsk. All RT has to do in its "propaganda" is to point out the hypocrisy and hypocrisy, that is present in spadefools.
The writing is on the wall with this statement from US state media (I didn't know there was such as thing in the "Land of the Free") that RT will be banned in countries like Britain and the US as a "terrorist entity".
Go onto Twitter and support RT at #NewsIsNotTerror
Head of US state media put RT on same challenge list as ISIS, Boko Haram
Newly-appointed chief of US Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Andrew Lack, has named RT one of the agency’s main challenges alongside extremist groups like the Islamic State and Boko Haram.
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January, 2015
“We
are facing a number of challenges from entities like Russia Today
which is out there pushing a point of view, the Islamic State in the
Middle East and groups like Boko Haram,” he said. “But I firmly
believe that this agency has a role to play in facing those
challenges.”
Broadcasting Board of Governors Names Chief Executive
Andrew Lack, the first chief executive of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, represents a sea change for the agency, which oversees United States government-supported civilian international news...
The New York Times @nytimesRT never expected to find itself on a list with the two most dangerous terrorist groups of the day and is seeking clarification on the comment.
“We
are extremely outraged that the new head of the BBG mentions RT in
the same breath as world’s
number one terrorist army,”
said Margarita Simonyan, RT’s editor-in-chief. “We
see this as an international scandal and demand an explanation.”
Apart
from BBG itself, RT is also seeking clarification from the US State
Department and the US Embassy in Russia.
It’s
not the first time the BBG, a bipartisan agency that supervises
government-sponsored media, targeting international audiences, has
referred to RT as a ‘challenge.’
“Let’s
put together a plan of how much that would cost and how to do
something that we could compete with Russia Today [RT] and then let’s
go to the Hill and then let’s go to the White House and tell them
what it’s going to cost to compete, and let’s see if we can do
it,”
BBG chairman Jeffrey Shell said in August 2014.
RT
is viewed this way “because
there’s a terror in London and in Washington of new upstarts, of
new information coming out and challenging the narratives that they
have owned for the last 50 years of so,”
editor of politics.co.uk Ian Dunt told RT.
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MORE: American broadcasters see RT as major challenge, want to try to
compete
This
time the New York Times article mentions RT’s “significant
American presence”
and argues Russia “poured
millions”
into its US bureau and the Sputnik news agency.
US
politicians have lashed out at RT in the past. John Kerry attacked
the channel for its coverage of the Ukraine crisis last spring and
called RT a “propaganda
bullhorn.”
Following
Kerry’s rant, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov decried John
Kerry’s comments about RT as “uncivilized”
and “prosecutorial.”
“[The
West] has been convinced for some time that it has a full monopoly on
mass media,”
said Lavrov in a statement. “Russia
Today has won a large audience in the US and Western Europe, not to
mention in Latin America and the Arab world."
“As
a broadcaster, RT does indeed present a challenge to US international
broadcasting in terms of competing for viewership,” said
Director of Advocacy and Communications of the International Press
Institute (IPI) Steven M. Ellis. “But
RT obviously does not present the type of threat to journalists’
physical security that entities such as the Islamic State group or
Boko Haram pose. Mr. Lack could have phrased his comments more
carefully to make this distinction clear, and we hope he will do so
in the future.”
US
television professionals have, however, been more amenable to RT and
have nominated its reporting for media awards. RT received an Emmy
nomination for its series of Guantanamo hunger strike reports in
2014, and the channel was earlier nominated for Emmies in 2010 and
2012.
For what it's worth, this just came through the wires
For what it's worth, this just came through the wires
State
Dept disagrees with head of US state media over equation of RT with
ISIS
State
Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki does not agree with the
newly-appointed chief of the US Broadcasting Board of Governors
(BBG), who put RT on the same challenge list as ISIS and Boko Haram.
“Would
the US government put those three in the same category? No, we
wouldn’t,” Psaki said at a briefing on Friday answering a
questing posed by RT’s Gayane Chichakyan, related to the comments
made by BBG head Andrew Lack.
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