What is the difference between Fox 'news', RT and Sputnik? n/t

[malaise]

Last edited Tue Sep 12, 2017, 10:29 AM - Edit history (1)

[JI7]

1. RT and Sputnik is sponsered by the State and Specifically Putin

Fox News is a right wing leaning news organization. they may prop up republican politicians but no specific elected official controls it the way putin does with rt/sputnik.

[Raster]

2. Is this a rhetorical question?

[FBaggins]

3. One of them was regularly cited and defended here on DU until the recent elections?

Including, IIRC, by you during the 2014 conflict between Ukraine and Russia?

[malaise]

10. The vast majority of media promote the interests and agenda of their owners

aka 'impression-management' aka propaganda.

I still see no reason for the US to interfere with Ukraine or any other sovereign country for that matter, let alone one on Russia's border.
Let me go further - when the US was cheering on the break-up of the Soviet Union, you don't think that upset Russian interests? Now Putin is doing what was done to him.

I detest the scumbag because I rather like rule of law, but let's stop pretending that everything one side does is good and the other side is evil.

Yesterday was 9/11 - ask the Chilean people what that date means to them and it wasn't Soviets who has their leader assassinated.

Each is as greedy and power hungry as the other.

[FBaggins]

20. Close to reasonable...

... but there's a difference between active spin (and, to some extent, confirmation bias blinding a partisan to the truth)... and propaganda outlets that outright make up facts in the face of contradictory reality.

RT is of the second variety... as is Sputnk (which used to be "Voice of Russia" back when you were falling for their nonsense with Fukushima.

[malaise]

23. Fox RT and Sputnik make up shit and call it facts

and the goons and sheeple on both sides but it

[SharonClark]

4. More false eyelashes and short skirts on Fox?

[malaise]

16. Ha

[MineralMan]

5. Their logos. That's it.

[malaise]

9. +1,000

[Madam45for2923]

6. One is full of sexual harassment scandals.

[Javaman]

7. the subtitles. nt

[malaise]

8. One is fascist and one is authoritarian

Neither gives a flying fuck about democracy

[Javaman]

12. yup.

and we the people are the main course.

[malaise]

14. Precisely n/t

[Wounded Bear]

18. Kind of like the difference between...

getting your throat cut and your head chopped off.

[malaise]

19. Indeed

dead is dead

[Atman]

11. Fox viewers actually believe they're getting real news.

Other than than, not much.

[Wounded Bear]

13. I think they launder the payments to Fox more thoroughly...

[malaise]

15. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[Orsino]

17. Lipstick. n/t

[NurseJackie]

21. ###

[malaise]

22. ROFL