Who’s the Propagandist: US or RT

[Tommy_Carcetti]

46. I'll for one go on record in saying Parry has mortgaged away whatever credibility he had left.

Yes, back in the day the man may have been a respectable investigative journalist, but if you look at any of his recent articles on the Ukrainian crisis, it is nothing but RT Russian propaganda spin and blatant pandering to the western conspiracy crowd.

Parry's essentially the Cuba Gooding Jr. of journalists--at one time award-winning and someone who showed a lot of depth and promise. And then somewhere along the line he got knocked off track, and you look at him and he's doing the journalistic equivalent of "Boat Trip", "Daddy Day Camp" or some straight to DVD hot mess.

For example, in one of his most recent pieces concerning the recent deadly riots, instead of noting the fact that the violence was two-sided, and that the ultimate deadly blaze at the trade union building was in part provoked by Pro-Russian gunmen apparently shooting at Pro-Ukrainian demonstrators, he instead choose the cheap way out and reported as if the Pro-Ukrainian mob had marched over to the building without any sort of provocation whatsoever. And then he compares it to World War II atrocities in which any similarity is surface deep. In other words, complete and utter parroting of the Pro-Russian line. Real investigative journalists don't do blatant and in your face propaganda pieces like that. They don't distort or misrepresent the truth like that.

I honestly don't know who's worse--Parry, who years ago had journalistic scruples but now is nothing more than a sensationalist shill for a repressive, imperialistic government; or RT's Man in Havan--err, I mean Slovyansk, Graham Phillips, who's essentially a glorified British sex tourist in Ukraine who somehow managed to weasel his way into a war reporter job and who makes undeniably biased statements of his own personal beliefs in the process. Both have provided a great disservice to fair, accurate and objective reporting in this very serious story.