Ukrainian troops sent by Kiev defect to anti-government protesters.

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62. Of course no one should ever trust one source and thanks for acknowledging that

RT's government funding is no more of an issue when Reporters are covering news stories, than the, sadly coopted (remember what happened to the BBC during the Blair war mongering years) BBC, or our own now Koch Bros, worse than ANY govt imho, funded PBS.

Regardless of who is funding a network, and not one of them is free from funding of either governments, or worse, Koch Bros Private Corps, it is the PEOPLE who are allowed to speak freely that I am interested in watching.

Eg, I will watch Pepe Escobar ANYWHERE I can find him due to his excellent reporting on the Bush War Mongering and Lies throughout that awful period. Truth was hard to find, I wish we had had RT then where people like Amy Goodman, Greg Palast who had to leave this country to speak the truth, and all the other credible reporters who were BLOCKED from the Corporate Media, could have had a voice.

Our country BOMBED Al Jazeera in two countries, killed and detained some of their reporters. There is NO way I would EVER trust a Corporate Owned Media after what we witnessed here in this country.

RT of course is going to try to make Russia look good. Is that a crime? I KNOW people, in my own family eg, who have travelled around Russia and are very impressed with the people there and the hospitality plus the incredible history going back centuries. Afte the dark days of the Soviet Union, who can blame them for trying to show the world some of the more positive aspects of their country?

But the lame, stupid smearing of news sources, Al Jazeera during the Bush years, and now RT, only makes intelligent people more likely, as it did with the Left re Al Jazeera which probably kept them going, to watch and judge for themselves.

The more I see a News outlet slammed, the more likely I am to check it out, because it generally means someone is 'uncomfortable' about what is being said there, someone in power.

RT is very similar to AJ, has some excellent international reporters, as did AJ and no amount of slamming it shamefully now from the Left is going to stop those reporters many of whom are American, British, French, from reporting what they are witnessing.