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JDPriestly

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20. "Breathlessly as a legitmate source without ever questioning it"?

Mon May 20, 2013, 01:13 AM

May 2013

I doubt the "without ever questioning it" part. RT has some good programs and some really slanted ones. The slant is pretty obvious sometimes. But then there is Thom Hartmann and Max Keiser who has some really good guests on occasion.

If the US media were more open to presenting different opinions, RT probably wouldn't be of much interest. But considering how one-sided our news coverage is in the US, if you listen to some US media and a bit of RT, you at least get different points of view.

We need to watch Fox, ABC, CNN, CBS and NBC just as critically as we watch other media including RT.

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