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uhnope

(6,419 posts)
Sun Oct 12, 2014, 09:16 PM Oct 2014

RT cuts broadcast on Tetyana Pushnova for telling the viewers: "Don't cooperate with Russia Today!"



Pretty awesome, really. RT, the Kremlin's version of FOX, bought and paid for by Putin's dictatorship, gets 10 seconds of truth and so cuts the transmission. Then the RT news-model says "we've been trolled" because Tetyana Pushnova would not go by the tightly-controlled RT script. Crying "troll" is how all right wingers and totalitarians react to dissent, to truth they don't like. Raise a glass to Ms. Pushnova, a tiny victory against the Kremlin lie machine.

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RT cuts broadcast on Tetyana Pushnova for telling the viewers: "Don't cooperate with Russia Today!" (Original Post) uhnope Oct 2014 OP
But RT is a model reporting network according to some here. Historic NY Oct 2014 #1
Thom Hartmann sell out to RT william cail Oct 2014 #7
Hartmann challenges the 1%- do you THINK mainstream media would allow that? WillYourVoteBCounted Oct 2014 #14
Does that graphic on the left say Russia Today Top Lie, or is it Stop Lie? Turborama Oct 2014 #2
I was curious too, so I looked it up online... Old Crow Oct 2014 #3
Maybe that's what the woman meant when she said "we've been trolled." freedom fighter jh Oct 2014 #6
I think you're right. Old Crow Oct 2014 #11
here's original video before Ukraine Today edited it WillYourVoteBCounted Oct 2014 #15
What? An RT clip that doesn't make one gag? Will wonders never cease! nt MADem Oct 2014 #4
+1 Tarheel_Dem Oct 2014 #5
Goebbels would be proud heaven05 Oct 2014 #8
And yet albino65 Oct 2014 #9
"... RT, the Kremlin's version of FOX ...." ColesCountyDem Oct 2014 #10
Yep. Trolled live on air although the ballyhoo Oct 2014 #12
"backwards"? Turborama Oct 2014 #16
How US Propaganda System Works WillYourVoteBCounted Oct 2014 #13
 

william cail

(32 posts)
7. Thom Hartmann sell out to RT
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 08:02 AM
Oct 2014

This is why I can't listen to Thom Hartmann anymore. He is willing to be associated with a state run propaganda network. If Thom still have integrity he wouldn't allowed RT to broadcast his TV show.

WillYourVoteBCounted

(14,622 posts)
14. Hartmann challenges the 1%- do you THINK mainstream media would allow that?
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 03:15 PM
Oct 2014

the job of media is to challenge the government, but we don't have that in the US mainstream media.

Media is supposed to be a check against govt overreach and corruption.

Turborama

(22,109 posts)
2. Does that graphic on the left say Russia Today Top Lie, or is it Stop Lie?
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 12:36 AM
Oct 2014

Either way, it's interesting they have a graphic ready to instantly put up claiming someone is lying as if they are the arbiters of "truth". lol

freedom fighter jh

(1,782 posts)
6. Maybe that's what the woman meant when she said "we've been trolled."
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 07:24 AM
Oct 2014

Maybe "stop lie" is the attempt of someone with poor English to say Russia Today is lying.

How did they get through to RT's computers? Maybe they trolled, even if "hack" would have been a better word choice.

Old Crow

(2,212 posts)
11. I think you're right.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 01:48 PM
Oct 2014

I went back and watched the clip again. The RT studios had signed over the feed for the left monitor to Ukraine Today--that's why the RT anchor was asking the Ukraine editor, "Can we see that clip now?" She was waiting for the Ukraine station to play the agreed-upon clip of the Ukraine coverage. Instead, the Ukraine editor made her statement and then the Ukraine station broadcast the "Stop Lie" graphic as a protest.

So, yes, you nailed it: that graphic came from the Ukraine studio. Thanks.

WillYourVoteBCounted

(14,622 posts)
15. here's original video before Ukraine Today edited it
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 03:16 PM
Oct 2014

the video was much longer. almost 5 min long



Yes both stations promote their government's point of view but RT does alot of work, allows alot of voices
needed that aren't allowed in ABC/CBS/CNN/FOX/MSNBC/NPR/PBS

I'm for truth no matter who speaks it.
 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
8. Goebbels would be proud
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 10:28 AM
Oct 2014

of this 'news' person. She might even get a 'freedom' medal for her attempt to explain RT's reaction to Pushnova. Pure totalitarian suppression of dissent. But the dissent is out there, can't it. Ever.

ColesCountyDem

(6,943 posts)
10. "... RT, the Kremlin's version of FOX ...."
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 01:26 PM
Oct 2014

EXACTLY! It absolutely boggles my mind that some DU-ers actually buy the crap that RT spews.

 

ballyhoo

(2,060 posts)
12. Yep. Trolled live on air although the
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 02:53 PM
Oct 2014

troll seemed a little backwards for a professional hater. Haven't ided the sign of her blouse (top) but I'm working on it. Maybe some Sibbesse coat of arms variant.

WillYourVoteBCounted

(14,622 posts)
13. How US Propaganda System Works
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 03:07 PM
Oct 2014

You realize that UT is a neo Nazi propaganda channel? And yes, RT is pro Kremlin.

(At least 4.5 million civilians of the Soviet Union were victims of the Nazis, some put that figure higher)

How the US Propaganda System Works
Larry Davidson, Consortium news
...
Perhaps the grossest ongoing censorship of all is the culturally conditioned, narrow range of opinion fed to the vast majority of Americans by their own media. The differences in story lines and opinions in the “news” given by well-watched television channels such as ABC. CBS, NBC and CNN, or those of the nation’s major newspapers and news magazines, is minuscule.
...
Actually, there is nothing particularly unique about the self-censoring environment under which Americans live. All states and cultures, to one extent or another, practice this sort of manipulation of the information environment whereby reality is distorted.
...
http://consortiumnews.com/2014/05/09/how-the-us-propaganda-system-works/


ABOUT:
From Editor Robert Parry: We founded Consortiumnews.com in 1995 as the first investigative news magazine on the Internet. The site was meant to be a home for important, well-reported stories and a challenge to the inept but dominant mainstream news media of the day.

As one of the reporters who helped expose the Iran-Contra scandal for the Associated Press in the mid-1980s, I was distressed by the silliness and propaganda that had come to pervade American journalism. I feared, too, that the decline of the U.S. press corps foreshadowed disasters that would come when journalists failed to alert the public about impending dangers.
...
http://consortiumnews.com/about/
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