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RT contributor Anna Baranova fell victim to an unprovoked attack by a masked demonstrator during anti-labor reform protests in Paris on Tuesday, but carried on regardless, garnering the sympathy of viewers from throughout the world.
A video of the assault shows one of the participants in a balaclava impudently walk up to RT’s reporter, before slapping her in the head and walking off without breaking his stride. Seconds later, another protester begins slow clapping in front of the lens.
Why was she attacked?
“My helmet had the word “Presse” [Media] written on it – an entity seen by them as an enemy along with the police and the ruling party.”
Ironically, RT was one of the first international media outlets to cover the Nuit Debout protests, and has repeatedly offered a platform to their representatives. The video has gathered tens of thousands of views online, and hundreds of comments supporting Baranova, and condemning the attack.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is joining the RT America team. Author and social critic Chris Hedges will host a weekly interview show called ‘On Contact,’ which will air “dissident voices” currently missing from the mainstream media.
While I strongly disagree with this move from the current Argentine government, truth is that RT in general, but especially its Spanish version, became just too identified with leftist proposals and politicians who are now becoming more and more discredited in the region. The reason for this alliance with Latin American leftism is not any ideological coincidence (in fact the current Russian government is very pragmatical and unideologized, which is exactly the reason why it is so successful), just the opposition towards US global dominance, but seeing how many of those once popular regimes have failed so miserably (Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil especially), this is not a very solid base and was doomed to fail.higurashihougi wrote:With new President elected, Argentina begins sucking U.S. c**k.
https://www.rt.com/news/346172-argentina-suspends-rt-television/
Argentina to suspend RT from national broadcasting
par far wrote:I was watching a video on Youtube about Russian mechanized division and in one the comments, someone said that on RT you cannot use the words, Israel, Jews and Zionists, so I tried it and he was right. I picked one of the stories associated with the Middle East, in one post, I did not use anything to do with Israel, Jews and Zionists, this post got approved right away, then I made three separate post using the words Israel, Jews and Zionists, in each one and they came as "pending approval", I waited for a long time and then I refreshed and they were gone. Why is that? You can try it yourself if you like.
It’s important to stand up against NatWest’s decision to close RT’s UK bank accounts, said British journalist Oliver Tickell, who launched a petition protesting the move, while asking “if we put up with this, then what’s next?”
Steve Hedley, the second-in-command at one of UK’s most powerful unions, says that RT’s decision to go public with NatWest’s intention to shut down its bank accounts will help save not just itself, but other alternative media.
“We are getting to a state of affairs where everything in the country is monitored, and if it doesn’t meet with official approval, it is banned, and has its source of funding cut off. This is a move toward a totalitarian state,” Hedley, Senior Assistant General Secretary of RMT, the UK's biggest specialist transport union, told RT during a live interview from London. “The strong stance that RT has taken over this is good, and will prevent further pressure, on itself and other organizations.”
Russia Today Fails to Mention Polish Nationality of a Homeless Victim of an Attack in Germany Odin of Ossetia Tue Dec 27, 2016 11:29 pm
Not worse than CNN, WaPo, NYT, Fox News, BBC, Deutsche Welle. Russia wanted to have its own mass medium with global range to showcase its point and got one; in many cases their news are superficial or even wrong, but just like any MSM in the world.Regular wrote:Standards of journalism are really low when it comes to RT.
Odin of Ossetia wrote:
About the attempted setting on fire of a homeless man in Berlin, Germany.
https://www.rt.com/news/371938-germany-underground-suspects-arrested/
It turns out the victim was Polish (this has been already reported on the news in Poland), but RT fails to mention it.
Amazing, imagine if he was a Russian.
I know RT for its very misleading coverage of news from Poland (especially by this guy with a Polish-sounding surname, Yaroshevsky?), but if this is not some ill will towards the Poles by the RT, then what is it?
Lousy journalism?
CNN, FOX and WaPo are probably worst. BBC would be one of the few western media outlets I would go as their agenda is more subtle.Svyatoslavich wrote:Not worse than CNN, WaPo, NYT, Fox News, BBC, Deutsche Welle. Russia wanted to have its own mass medium with global range to showcase its point and got one; in many cases their news are superficial or even wrong, but just like any MSM in the world.Regular wrote:Standards of journalism are really low when it comes to RT.
Regular wrote:CNN, FOX and WaPo are probably worst. BBC would be one of the few western media outlets I would go as their agenda is more subtle.Svyatoslavich wrote:Not worse than CNN, WaPo, NYT, Fox News, BBC, Deutsche Welle. Russia wanted to have its own mass medium with global range to showcase its point and got one; in many cases their news are superficial or even wrong, but just like any MSM in the world.Regular wrote:Standards of journalism are really low when it comes to RT.
Media is dead these days. If You want to stay informed, You have to multisource it and use Your own head.
BBC would be one of the few western media outlets I would go as their agenda is more subtle.
Media is dead these days. If You want to stay informed, You have to multisource it and use Your own head.
kvs wrote:Odin of Ossetia wrote:
About the attempted setting on fire of a homeless man in Berlin, Germany.
https://www.rt.com/news/371938-germany-underground-suspects-arrested/
It turns out the victim was Polish (this has been already reported on the news in Poland), but RT fails to mention it.
Amazing, imagine if he was a Russian.
I know RT for its very misleading coverage of news from Poland (especially by this guy with a Polish-sounding surname, Yaroshevsky?), but if this is not some ill will towards the Poles by the RT, then what is it?
Lousy journalism?
OK, sunshine, list which other global news agency reported the man's nationality. I have not seen it brought up and I don't
watch or even follow RT.
By bringing up the victim's nationality you Polak nutjobs would be screaming that RT was trying to make Polaks look like
unemployed bums. Damned if you do and damned if you don't with you hypocrites. Take your hate and shove it.
Google remains tight-lipped after blocking YouTube channels of Russian news outlets
MOSCOW, August 18. /TASS/. Head of the Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights Valery Fadeev has sent a letter to the American office of Google corporation asking to explain the reasons for blocking the YouTube channels of Russian news outlets, the Council’s press service reported on Tuesday.
Google’s Russian office earlier had declined to comment on the reasons for blocking the YouTube channels of Russian media outlets at the Council’s request.
"Valery Fadeev today sent a letter to the American office of Google corporation asking to explain the reasons for blocking the YouTube channels of Russian news outlets. The address of the Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights is related to complaints from the owners of the channels blocked which note the unlawful actions of the YouTube administrators," the statement on the Council’s site said.
It is noted that the general public sees signs of censorship in the unaccountable shutdown of several channels, as well as of attempts to influence the freedom of speech and the freedom of opinion. In all, according to the open sources, in the recent years about 200 Russian-language channels were blacklisted by the administration of the video hosting site.
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