RT discusses "The Secret of Putin's Success." Might be funny if it wasn't terrifying

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5. Only a fool would write-off all of RT---- Thom Hartmann and Abby Martin are great

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I will absolutely defend them (and maybe a few others as well) on RT.


You have to be a pretty dense, uninformed and ignorant person not to be able to see the
entirely expectable pro-Putin propaganda served-up on RT.

I remember vividly when in the early 2000s US cable tv network news sources who were owned by mega-companies who also
had weapons divisions and military contract$ were cheerleading for the Iraq War.
Talk about conflict-of-interest---And those were American stations!

You do remember that don't you? (Or at least you know of it, right?).

RT's propaganda is obvious and heavy-handed, almost comical.
For myself, I just switch channels when the propaganda starts flowing, as it does on several of RT's shows.
No problem--I am an educated, media-savvy person who can smell propaganda of almost any sort a mile away.

I can make distinctions between propaganda and good muckraking reporting (as done by Hartman and Martin).

Surely, you Putin-slammers out there are educated, media-savvy people as well (I assume).
Then why all the fear and hate?
It comes off as very sophomoric, IMO.

You other posters (so far) on this thread...

You mean to tell me you don't see the corporate spin/censorship in Comcast/MSNBC? The sycophancy of CNN?
Fox is obvious.
But even PBS has heavy corporate/Koch Bros sponsorship (read:$$$) that has affected the quality and content of
their news and programming including shows on foreign policy and climate change (all well-reported-have you not read about this?).

Al Jazeera has some good reporting, but IMO, they are just 1 source, and are subjective to the spin
of their ownership as well. I don't watch them nearly as much as RT. Maybe I should watch them more?

Thank God for Amy Goodman and Pacifica, but they are not enough by themselves.
America needs 100 Amy Goodmans, IMO.

IMO, we need ALL sources, even Fox (to use as the gold standard of comparison for corporate/RW BS).

Go ahead---Criticise the obvious Putin-burnishers at RT all you want (Like I said, I usually choose to switch channels at that time).

General principle I have learned to be true:
That which is obvious and heavy-handed is far less dangerous than subtle, skillful manipulation (or omission) of news.
You do get that, right?

RT is as obvious as FOX when it goes over-the-line. Visible a mile away.

But luckily, RT also gives some good reporters a free-hand who dig up bad things that are actually
happening in America, and under-reported by our own corporate news.
And unlike MSNBC/FOX, there is no Democratic-Republican Party "horse-race" spin.

And there are other reasons Thom Hartmann/Abby Martin and a few others on RT get my viewing:
Noam Chomsky
Chris Hedges
Richard D Wolff
Brad Friedman
Danny Schecter
Greg Palast
David Sirota

There are others as well.

Why are these important voices NEVER heard on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, etc?
Never.

Only Pacifica and RT.

So--There's no censorship on US Corporate news?
Don't make me laugh you out of the room.

Oh yes---Another small reason I like RT---No commercials.

Of course, any corporatist would be deeply offended by that, I'm sure.

But you folks aren't corporatists, are you?

So make fun of RT all you want (shirtless Putin jokes all day long, ha ha ha---I might even laugh along too ).

But there's no reason to hate or fear RT, that is,
if you can handle the "information" part about living in an Information Society.

I realize many FOX-watchers can't.

But I assume you folks who posted earlier on this thread, are way smarter than that.