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Quote: RT, previously known as Russia Today, is an international multilingual Russian-based television network which presents round-the-clock news bulletins, documentaries, talk shows, and debates, as well as sports news and cultural programs on Russia aimed at the overseas news market.[2]

From studios in Moscow, RT broadcast the original English language channel, launched in 2005. Also the Arabic Rusiya Al-Yaum, launched in 2007, and the Spanish language channel RT Actualidad, launched in 2009. Since 2010, RT America which focuses on the United States has been based in Washington, D.C.[3]

The network asserts that RT offers a Russian perspective on global events.[2] However critics have accused it of being a propaganda outlet for the Russian government.[4][5][6] In 2013 President Putin stated “Certainly the channel is funded by the government, so it cannot help but reflect the Russian government’s official position” but stressed “we never intended this channel, RT, as any kind of apologetics for the Russian political line”.[7][8]

RT is pretty popular outside the US. I've started watching it, as it seems quite a bit more realistic and informative than what I find in the US. A lot of what would be considered "offensive" or "conspiratorial" here is openly broadcast on RT. Alex Jones and Jesse Ventura have appeared quite often.

Anybody else watch RT?

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Full of propaganda.

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I enjoy the counter-propaganda as compared to CNN's coverage of political issues and twitter feeds.
I don't watch any news regularly.

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Explaining what RT is would really help those of us that are unfamiliar with what it is

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Russian propaganda news agency with credibility somewhere between the daily mail and Fox news

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They had some pretty attractive anchors

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I like watching RT (formerly Russia Today).

http://rt.com

https://twitter.com/RT_com

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpwvZwU...xB7g4USKpg

More credible on foreign affairs than CNN, which tends to toe the US State Dept. line.

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I enjoy dissecting contrasting views of propaganda. RT is apart of my bucket list of news sites to view.

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(06-23-2014 02:48 PM)Slick Shimmer Wrote:  I enjoy the counter-propaganda as compared to CNN's coverage of political issues and twitter feeds.
I don't watch any news regularly.

I appreciate that RT covers issues of importance, such as America's declining middle class and our parasitical elite over class.

Is it biased? Sure..... but that no more so than any American outlet. I feel that its bias motivates RT to do a lot of "hard" stories which are critical of the US govt. Having another perspective to counterbalance American media propaganda is valuable.

For example, RT has provided much more coverage to the issues the Occupy Wall Street addresses.

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RT is the red pill for Americans who realize they're being fed propaganda by the US govt and media.

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I get my news from the RVF

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Probably not the best news channel, full of Russian propaganda.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_%28TV_network%29#Budget

RT cost $30 million to establish in 2005[4] and $30 million for its first year of operation. About half of the network's budget came from the state and the other half from banks and companies friendly to the government.

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I agree that RT has its biases, but it does some really good stories that often wouldn't get featured here.

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They have some guest that you would NEVER hear in American mainstream media.

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I watch RT its much better than american new stations.

Bias is of course expected especially because the Russian government funds it, but at least it provides checks and balances in international media.

The Daily Mail is also a good news source.

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Yeah, the Daily Mail is good.

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Lol people act like CNN isn't just as biased. Don't watch RT for Russian affairs but for elsewhere they offer good programming. I like their Russian a Docs too.

All media has bias. It's just a reality of it all. Get your info from diverse sources and find your own truth and conclusions. You will see what is fair and balance more easily.

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Do guys believe another financial crash will be coming in a few years?

Thomas Hartmann, a RT anchor, believes that the fundamentals of our economic/financial system haven't been fixed. The economic/financial system is just being shored
up until Obama leaves office, at which point there could be another financial crisis.

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I use RT and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) website (abc.net.au).

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RT has some propaganda, of course. You could not expect an objective view of the Ukraine thing, for example.

Of course, US mainstream media has propaganda, too. Watching RT would provide a different perspective and you can sort the facts out for yourself, but by watching different channels you would get more facts. I like Max Keiser, even though he's a bit of a nut.

What bothers me is that you can't get RT in most places in the USA, or really any foreign news channels. Outside the USA in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, you can find all sorts of news channels, including the American ones, CNN, Fox, Bloomberg. BBC World is everywhere but most of the USA. Al Jazeera America only just started and is not as good as Al Jazeera International. Can't get Euronews, France 24, DW, CCTV-9 either. And certainly not PressTV. Meanwhile there are about 20 preacher channels and 20 shopping channels on every cable or dish package

It makes the USA seem like a bubble where outside voices are shut out and the "narrative" is limited to MSNBC-Fox-CNN.

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I gave up on American news a long time ago.

When you watch Fox, CNBC, or MSNBC, you can tell that they are only interested in pushing a political agenda. And then they stage these "discussions" where they are shouting and trying to talk over each other. Cable has destroyed American news. In more sane times, newscasters like Walter Cronkite would bend over backwards to look dignified and objective. News was always presented as a serious thing. People would listen because they trusted the anchor. The culture has become so stupid with dumbed down Americans listening to talking head clowns who don't even pretend to be objective and believing what they say. In contrast, on Al Jazeera International, they have interesting stories on countries around the world. They present information you will never see on American television.

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RT is propaganda for sure, and I know several people who work there (I live in Moscow).

The difference between RT and news agencies like CNN or Fox is that RT is funded (and influenced) by a national government.

Fox is hugely critical of the US administration, whereas RT will always be pro-Russia, no matter who is in charge.

On the other hand, RT probably isn't more biased than CNN/Fox/etc., but the bias is aligned with state interest, which is not so much the case as the others.

You can argue that US media also toes the government line, but Fox's coverage of Benghazi or the Washington Post's publication of the Snowden documents are the types of things that could never happen in a country like Russia. Of course RT puts a lot of emphasis on showing problems in the US.

I don't think it's all trash, but if you want a counter-bias there are better outlets. In general the news agencies based off of TV channels (CNN, RT, Fox, etc.) are really aimed at the "lowest common denominator" in terms of audience. Anyone with a decent level of intelligence should be reading newspapers instead.

If you want a broader point of view you're better off reading the Financial Times, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, etc.

In the US you should be reading The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times or The Washington Post.

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(06-24-2014 09:44 AM)BigDave Wrote:  You can argue that US media also toes the government line, but Fox's coverage of Benghazi or the Washington Post's publication of the Snowden documents are the types of things that could never happen in a country like Russia. Of course RT puts a lot of emphasis on showing problems in the US.

Thats very true. In Estonia most Russians living here only watch Russian news and get their information from there. Now you can really feel the hate that is feeded into them from these channels, they are calling normal people in the streets fascists, hating everything related to US/West, think that in Ukraine people are killing russian babies and stuff like that. Thats simply propaganda given to them from the state controlled media from Russia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index Russia places here 148 out of 180.

But who knows, maybe their right and were wrong, and we are feeded with propaganda..

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In the run up to the Iraq War, our "independent" media outlets didn't challenge the narrative that there was a link
between Iraq and 9/11. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the media let the government spew
propaganda about how Iraq was going to use terrorists to destroy American cities.

Fox News took it even a step further. Not only didn't they provide critical coverage of the government BS, but they
created their own fictional "evidence" of an Iraq-9/11 link. Anybody living in America at the time can confirm what I'm saying about
our media.

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(06-24-2014 09:44 AM)BigDave Wrote:  RT is propaganda for sure, and I know several people who work there (I live in Moscow).

The difference between RT and news agencies like CNN or Fox is that RT is funded (and influenced) by a national government.

Fox is hugely critical of the US administration, whereas RT will always be pro-Russia, no matter who is in charge.

On the other hand, RT probably isn't more biased than CNN/Fox/etc., but the bias is aligned with state interest, which is not so much the case as the others.

You can argue that US media also toes the government line, but Fox's coverage of Benghazi or the Washington Post's publication of the Snowden documents are the types of things that could never happen in a country like Russia. Of course RT puts a lot of emphasis on showing problems in the US.

I don't think it's all trash, but if you want a counter-bias there are better outlets. In general the news agencies based off of TV channels (CNN, RT, Fox, etc.) are really aimed at the "lowest common denominator" in terms of audience. Anyone with a decent level of intelligence should be reading newspapers instead.

If you want a broader point of view you're better off reading the Financial Times, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, etc.

In the US you should be reading The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times or The Washington Post.

"In the US you should be reading The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times or The Washington Post."

For unbiased and thorough reporting.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-i...ot-rodger/