Anchor Resigns On Air Over Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine (Update)

[brooklynite]

Source: Huffington Post

Russia Today anchor Liz Wahl resigned on air Wednesday saying that she could no longer be part of a network that "whitewashes the actions of Putin."

"Personally I cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian government that whitewashes the actions of Putin," Wahl, a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for Russia Today, said. "I'm proud to be an American and believe in disseminating the truth and that is why after this newscast I'm resigning."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/05/russia-anchor-resigns-ukraine-invasion_n_4907140.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013&ir=Politics

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Boy, that CIA does get around don't they?

[Tx4obama]

1. Ex-RT Anchor Liz Wahl: RT 'Not About the Truth, It's About Promoting a Putinist Agenda'

Ex-RT Anchor Liz Wahl: RT ‘Not About the Truth, It’s About Promoting a Putinist Agenda’

Ex-RT anchor Liz Wahl made her first post-resignation TV appearance with Anderson Cooper Wednesday night, telling him that in the midst of the current Ukranian crisis, the “propagandist nature of RT came out in full force” and she couldn’t bring herself to work there anymore. She cited specific examples of biased news coverage, including a package about Neo-Nazis in the opposition. Wahl said “to portray the entire operation as being part of this right-wing extremist group is going along with the narrative that Vladimir Putin wants to go along with.”

She told Cooper there are lots of young people working at RT “eager to please management” and “there’s a form of self-censorship that you learn” in order to “present the Putin perspective.” She said, “RT is not about the truth, it’s about promoting a Putinist agenda.”

She dismissed RT’s statement that she resigned for attention, explaining she hesitated in the first place because of “fear of repercussion,” but found it “comforting” to hear positive feedback on social media. Wahl told The Daily Beast earlier today that the true agenda of RT’s propaganda is “making America look bad.”

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Full post with VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ex-rt-anchor-to-cooper-rt-%E2%80%98not-about-the-truth-it%E2%80%99s-about-promoting-a-putinist-agenda%E2%80%99/

[agent46]

2. My best hope is that

My best hope is that this starts a national conversation about the biased nature of American news media and the money behind the use of propaganda here in the US.

[2banon]

4. I hear ya, but I'm not holding my breath

Criticism is fairly limited to Fox news and a few other personalities whose blatant, over the top Reich wing pov's along with their korporate masters get a lot of attention.

But that's just about the extent of it.

[Benton D Struckcheon]

3. I swear, half the threadstarters here

...seem to think the US invaded Crimea. RT's amateurish by comparison.

[cosmicone]

5. Goodbye Putin hater

Putin has not "invaded" Ukraine .... his troops were already there

[joshcryer]

8. He claims they are not troops.

[cosmicone]

9. Yes ... the airport and government buildings

were seized by a native pro-Russian group.

[joshcryer]

10. More likely trained individuals from Russia.

As opposed to re-purposed individuals from the base.

[cosmicone]

11. No one "knows" for sure

so until known, it is not an invasion.

We have local militia in places like Idaho which might do the same thing if their ethnicity ends up not being represented in Washington some day.

[pampango]

12. "... the lack of insignia provides plausible deniability. Putin and others can say that those troops

all over Crimea are not Russian soldiers. Those who want to believe him are not confronted with the visible proof that insignia would provide."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024611875

Are the sailors aboard the Russian navy ships also members of a "native pro-Russian group"? Those Russian ships are blockading Ukrainian navy ships so that they cannot move. If "native pro-Russian groups" have taken over or been given control of Russian navy ships that would be a big deal.

[davidpdx]

6. I wonder how the CIA got to her

[merrily]

7. Thank heaven our media never whitewashes the establishment.

Or diverts us from focusing on it.




Quick: How many US troops died last month? How many drone kills last year? Why did very smart people allow Bushco to get away with telling us we might even turn a modest profit on the Iraq War, because of Iraq's oil, and the Iraqis would hang flowers around the necks of our invading military?

[Tarheel_Dem]

13. I applaud her. When does the FCC pull their license?