How The Truth Is Made At Russia Today
If this doesn't open the eyes of the RT cheerleading squad, nothing will:
WASHINGTON — Staci Bivens knew something was seriously wrong when her bosses at Russia Today asked her to put together a story alleging that Germany — Europe’s economic powerhouse — was a failed state.
“It was me and two managers and they had already discussed what they wanted,” Bivens, an American who worked in RT’s Moscow headquarters from 2009 through 2011, said of a meeting she’d had to discuss the segment before a planned reporting trip to Germany. “They called me in and it was really surreal. One of the managers said, ‘The story is that the West is failing, Germany is a failed state.’”
Bivens, who had spent time in Germany, told the managers the story wasn’t true — the term “failed state” is reserved for countries that fail to provide basic government services, like Somalia or Congo, not for economically advanced, industrialized nations like Germany. They insisted. Bivens refused. RT flew a crew to Germany ahead of Bivens, who was flown in later to do a few standups and interviews about racism in Germany. It was the beginning of the end of her RT career.
“At that point I’d been there for a little bit and I’d had enough of the insanity,” Bivens said. She stayed until the end of her contract in 2011 and didn’t make an effort to renew it....Soon after joining the network, the current and former employees said, they realized they were not covering news, but producing Russian propaganda. Some employees go in clear-eyed, looking for the experience above all else. Others don’t realize what RT really wants until they’re already there. Still others are chosen for already having displayed views amenable to the Kremlin. Anti-American language is injected into TV scripts by editors, and stories that don’t toe the editorial line regularly get killed.
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And yet, there are people who, doe-eyed and obtuse, can't understand why this shitstain rag of a media outlet isn't a valid LBN source...! The mind boggles!
What do you do once you've completely sold yourself for craven lucre, trashed your integrity, prostituted your reputation? Any "real" job one might get after that "soul selling" experience would always be open to criticism.
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do you get your truth? thanks in advance. 
like to be as informed as you think you are so please tell us. Is it a secret? 
But hmmmm.....by that tone, I think someone's a bit testy.
RT sucks, you know. And if you don't know that, it's probably a good idea that you learn it.
But you have to read it understanding that it's sharply biased and try to tease out where the bias is and where reality is. Even the biases are still information, but sort of "meta-information."
My favorite article of all times was an Izvestiya (IIRC) article that bleated proudly about tractor production in the USSR. It glowed with praise for how many tractors were produced, constituting a sharp increase in production. It took a few seconds' work to realize that it meant they were producing one tractor per year for millions of hectares. Most farmland was worked by very old tractors kept running by sheer ingenuity or by horse- or oxen-pulled ploughs. (You'd get the same "through the censor" jabs in a story or novella praising the diligent and prosperous sovkhoz workers for their ability to keep the same 35-year-old tractor going; an intelligent reader would stop and think, "Why did they need to keep that piece of der'mo working after 35 years? Perhaps because there's a massive tractor shortage?"
You also get to see what the low-information reader will accept as truth. So when I read Russian news stories about rampant lawlessness, gangs in Kyiv, massive oppression of Russians, how people are being killed in the streets (with the tacit assumption that fascist Ukrainians are killing Russians, not the other way around), etc., etc. it helps inform my expectations. Russians in Crimea will whole-heartedly vote to keep the columns of Ukrainians from entering Crimea and butchering them. Even if there are no actual columns of Ukrainians or Russians being butchered. They'll vote their propaganda-induced fears.
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