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(110,311 posts)Where is Thom Hartmann broadcasting from these days?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Picture_with_Thom_Hartmann
The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann is an American TV talk/news show owned, hosted and produced by political commentator and radio host Thom Hartmann, and Hartmann's production company (which also produces his radio show), Mythical Research, Inc., and is represented by WYD Media, Inc.
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The show is now recorded and broadcast live by RT America, the Washington, D.C.-based affiliate of RT with a presence on both over-the-air and cable TV systems in many major American cities, also continues to be syndicated by Free Speech TV and carried nationwide on both Dish Network channel 9415, DirecTV Channel 348, and on local Public-access television stations across the country.[1] From January 17, 2012 RT's international English-language channel started to broadcast it worldwide in over 100 countries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/20/rt-wants-to-spread-moscows-propaganda-here-lets-treat-it-that-way/?utm_term=.de678bb8ae89
RT is not a news service in any meaningful sense of the term. Reputable news services dont employ Illuminati correspondents. RT has no regard whatsoever for basic journalistic values like objectivity or the pursuit of truth; Ofcom, the British government media regulatory body, has repeatedly rebuked the network for breaching basic broadcasting standards, far more than any other network. That Dmitri Kiselyov, a bombastic Russian television host who oversees RTs parent organization, is included on a list of Russian officials sanctioned by the European Union for the annexation of Crimea, indicates that our E.U. allies rightly view the networks employees not as journalists but functionaries in a regime. At a May news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron defended his successful campaigns decision to deny access to RT and Sputnik, calling them agents of influence and propaganda. When I wanted to protest the Russian governments anti-gay campaign in the summer of 2013, it made sense to do so during a live broadcast on RT, as the network is widely understood to be a mouthpiece for the Russian government.
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As best we can tell, RTs content is shaped in close consultation with the Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin himself admitted in 2013 that RT cannot help but reflect the Russian governments official position on the events in our country and in the rest of the world one way or another. RTs utterly opaque governance structure, as well as testimony from former employees and the Russian leader himself, suggest that those who work for it do so at the direction or control of the Kremlin.