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Hugolas_Madurez saysFuck RT.
Now there's an intelligent comment: thoughtful and considerate.
If I showed up in Russia with AMERICA!, FUCK! YEAH! NEWS! advocating for unions, free elections, free speech, the abolishment and prosecution of the oligarchs and universal gun ownership, I'd be arrested and dismembered within hours.
RT were honestly labeled by like Voice of America, they'd be called Voice of the Kremlin
I'll wait until New Scientist or NE Journal of Medicine covers the topic and run citations backwards from those publications if I need to survey the space.
Greta Van Susteren
Kinda? How many times did the word Russia Today, fully spelled, appear on the screen during a typical news day? How many times during the day was the owner of the broadcaster disclosed during the news day? How many times during the news day was the total proportion of RT's budget that is supplied by the Russian government disclosed? How many times during the news day were the communications between the Kremlin and the executives of RT disclosed?
By contrast, VOA clearly labels the broadcast's owner - US Government - and its sources. The government regards it as propaganda but the guidelines could have been written by the AP. Here's Greta Van Susteren on the US Navy menacing Iran: https://www.voanews.com/z/5382
They cite sources and introduce interview subjects who are vocally skeptical about the Navy's mission, reflecting perhaps some of the sentiments in the US.
Really, in some basket case countries, the VOA could b...
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