This is the guy Putin hand picked to run RT.

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25. Its all true, but that is NOT an argument to not listen to RT

I do not listen to RT on any kind of regular basis. But that doesn't mean I dismiss them entirely. They had some very good coverage of Bradley/Chelsea Manning debacle at the time devoid of all the nationalism hogtied corporate press bias in the US.

They can be deadly accurate when reporting civil or military abuses by the US government, and report stories about the US that will be virtually ignored on American networks. Why??? Because it serves Putin's propaganda war against America. Any story that paints America in a bad light = good for Putin. Of course they love Snowdon.

I would dismiss stories about Russia or its military intentions of course.

But I thank gawd they have protected Snowden, if only to use as a weapon against the global Big Brother that, yes, Putin is advancing, but so is the NSA. It all gets convoluted, but it comes down to; the news enemy of my news enemy is my journalistic friend. In the same way we here in the west, controlled by anti-Putin forces, are able to read about atrocities within Russia like its anti-gay discrimination laws, or its advancement into the Ukraine that we would not hear about on RT.


This kinda reminds me of the practice of putting people on "ignore" on DU. Why would anyone do that? I have never put anyone on ignore no matter how ignorant, insulting or abusive they are to me verbally, on any message board I belong to. I am open to ALL opinions. At times it can actually solidify my own points of view. But also I am open to be persuaded to change my own opinions with a well thought out argument that I would never have heard if I just got into a huff and self censored my reading material.