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newthinking

(3,982 posts)
6. whataboutary much? Care to comment on the OP ot just sniping?
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 04:10 AM
Mar 2015

Oh, and do a search on her (Abby Martin). She has commented multiple times how she felt no unusual editorial pressure at all and in fact felt that she was given tremendous leeway to cover what **she** wished to cover. And since she is moving on and no longer works for RT there was no reason for her to say any such thing unless it was true (in fact if she were after money she would have leveraged and claimed the opposite to kiss up to western tabloid media). Hartmann has said the same.

One thing about RT, sure, the primary purpose is to have a venue under the Russian point of view, but one of the ways they built the popularity of the brand is by providing a platform a number of progressives have been able to use for some very good reporting.

Not much difference then when progressives were having to work in the conservative clear channel networks.

Just because a network has bias does not mean there are not always a few good shows. MSNBC carries it's own bias but it has some good progressive talent.

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