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Related: About this forumRT 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.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)william cail
(32 posts)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)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)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
Old Crow
(2,212 posts)"STOP LIE"... weird. Orwellian, even.
freedom fighter jh
(1,782 posts)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)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)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.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,232 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)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.
R/T is prominently featured on the video panel on the front page of DU.
ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)EXACTLY! It absolutely boggles my mind that some DU-ers actually buy the crap that RT spews.
ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)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.
Turborama
(22,109 posts)Please explain.
WillYourVoteBCounted
(14,622 posts)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)
Larry Davidson, Consortium news
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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 nations major newspapers and news magazines, is minuscule.
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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.
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http://consortiumnews.com/2014/05/09/how-the-us-propaganda-system-works/
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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.
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http://consortiumnews.com/about/