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Julian Assange Talk Show on RT channel

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Re: Julian Assange Talk Show on RT channel

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Post by runn1ng »

At first I was surprised, that he aired the show on Russia Today (heavily pro-Putin and anti-US TV station, that is the first to report on any occupy protest, but is very quiet about anti-Putin protests) and that the first person he interviewed was Narsallah, leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon.

However, the next few episodes are quite nuanced, so that's fine. I am still quite unsure what to think about him being on Russia Today, though

Re: Julian Assange Talk Show on RT channel

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Post by ldehaan »

I am curious what other people think of the rt.com channel. It is a Russian funded news organization and I have heard that it is just a propaganda tool, but a lot of the news seems very legit especially the coverage of all things our mass media ignores or hides. I used to watch it slot but found myself increasingly aware of even more crap I didn't know or government was doing. I found myself wondering if it is just a spin, true to the information but spun in just the right way so as to bring the most negative light to bear on events. I crave a real news source untrained by politics and corporations, but I have as yet found none, so I instead piece the events together by reading opposing news sources and grok from the diff. Would anyone here know the validity or the restrictions with which the news people are constrained to tell the whole story?

Re: Julian Assange Talk Show on RT channel

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Post by redcircle »

runn1ng wrote: post #5

At first I was surprised, that he aired the show on Russia Today (heavily pro-Putin and anti-US TV station, that is the first to report on any occupy protest, but is very quiet about anti-Putin protests) and that the first person he interviewed was Narsallah, leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon. However, the next few episodes are quite nuanced, so that's fine. I am still quite unsure what to think about him being on Russi…

The mainstream press in America is very pro America. They don't air lots of news pieces that would paint a critical picture of the US. Is it any surprise that Assange's show is not aired by the mainstream press? How is RT's slant towards Russia any different from CNN's pro-America stance?

Re: Julian Assange Talk Show on RT channel

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Post by JBiserkov »

runn1ng wrote: post #5

At first I was surprised, that he aired the show on Russia Today (heavily pro-Putin and anti-US TV station, that is the first to report on any occupy protest, but is very quiet about anti-Putin protests) and that the first person he interviewed was Narsallah, leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon. However, the next few episodes are quite nuanced, so that's fine. I am still quite unsure what to think about him being on Russi…

> There is apparently a rule that says it’s perfectly OK for a journalist to work for a media outlet owned and controlled by a weapons manufacturer (GE/NBC/MSNBC), or by the U.S. and British governments (BBC/Stars & Stripes/Voice of America), or by Rupert Murdoch and Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal (Wall St. Journal/Fox News), or by a banking corporation with long-standing ties to right-wing governments (Politico), or by for-profit corporations whose profits depend upon staying in the good graces of the U.S. government (Kaplan/The Washington Post), or by loyalists to one of the two major political parties (National Review/TPM/countless others), but it’s an intrinsic violation of journalistic integrity to work for a media outlet owned by the Russian government.

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