Russian diplomat 'stabbed' in Ottawa fight

[MADem]

84. If you laugh at a couple of drunks, one of whom is a drunken Russian, neither of whom are dead,

then you're....waaaaaaah....discriminating!!

It's absolute madness. I'm sure the same folks with hair on fire about people being mean to the "poor drunken Russian diplomat who said his knife wounds were dog bites" would have an absolute high-blood-pressure shitfit reading this article on the wonders of their favorite news outlet, too...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/how-the-truth-is-made-at-russia-today

RT America, by the accounts of the former and current employees with whom BuzzFeed spoke, has a strategy of hiring very young reporters who are eager to break out of small markets and want to cover international news. And the channel pays relatively well, more than most 22- or 23-year-olds expect to make in journalism. One former employee said a correspondent starting out could make as much as $50,000 or $60,000.
“They’ll hire really young people and you almost feel like you’re working in a mini-CNN-type situation,” the former reporter said. “You’re not covering snowstorms or the puppy parade. You’re doing stories that are a lot bigger and meatier.”
“I was fresh out of college when I got the job offer,” another former RT employee said in an email. “The prospect of working in D.C. and not going to some small town to start my career was appealing.”
“They hire young and mold you into the ‘journalist’ they want you to be,” the former employee wrote. “Blinded by ambition, eager to please and quite frankly inexperienced. That or they looked for people who shared RT’s agenda (like Abby Martin).” Martin, who has been involved in the 9/11 Truth movement and whose show frequently delves into other conspiracy theories, was hired after RT noticed her independent coverage of Occupy Oakland in 2011 and was given her own opinion show....But even when they leave, RT stays with them: Staffers sometimes have trouble finding jobs at legitimate outlets. “That’s been a challenge,” one former staffer said.

If some of the RT shills here aren't getting paid, they should!