The report on RT News and my surprise at it being Russia Today brought a bit of comment in the background. It's quite refreshing to hear that in contrast to the mindless bitterness from Anonymous.
After discovering about Russia Today, I started comparing which stories were covered as headlines by that channel relative to the ones covered by the BBC.
The seizure of Greenpeace activists at gunpoint by Russians who were trying to start drilling near the Arctic Circle was covered extensively by the BBC, including a direct interview with a representative from Greenpeace. The story was not reported at all in the Russia Today headlines.
Aid workers who were trying to bring food and supplies to a town which had been bombed by the Israeli military were pulled from their vehicle and roughed up by Israeli soldiers and police. This was reported extensively on Russia Today but was not mentioned by the BBC.
An incident of a friendly fire death in Iraq was covered in an extended report by Russia Today but, as with the other stories, it wasn't covered at all by the BBC. The event took place quite a while ago and was covered as a special feature by Russia Today so there was no particular reason for the BBC to cover it but this is still an example of a story embarrassing to America due to the way the investigation was mismanaged by the U.S. military.
Filtering news to promote various agendas has been taking place on American news channels for years but this type of propaganda is not limited to that country. It is now clear to me that Russia Today will cheerfully present anything that's potentially embarrassing to the United States or Europe while filtering anything that would be embarrassing to Russia. The information they present is accurate but the filtering discredits the presentation as a whole.
Television news here comes primarily from the BBC, al Jazeera, and RT News. American news channels aren't carried but there's really no reason they should be. Fox News has been known for years as not only pushing a far-right agenda and this is not unusual in the realm of propaganda but they go beyond that to distort the news rather than the simple filtering observed in other channels. CNN isn't carried either as most likely people in Britain really aren't particularly interested in Lindsay Lohan's latest arrest or what Justin Bieber is doing about the monkey he abandoned in Germany.
After discovering about Russia Today, I started comparing which stories were covered as headlines by that channel relative to the ones covered by the BBC.
The seizure of Greenpeace activists at gunpoint by Russians who were trying to start drilling near the Arctic Circle was covered extensively by the BBC, including a direct interview with a representative from Greenpeace. The story was not reported at all in the Russia Today headlines.
Aid workers who were trying to bring food and supplies to a town which had been bombed by the Israeli military were pulled from their vehicle and roughed up by Israeli soldiers and police. This was reported extensively on Russia Today but was not mentioned by the BBC.
An incident of a friendly fire death in Iraq was covered in an extended report by Russia Today but, as with the other stories, it wasn't covered at all by the BBC. The event took place quite a while ago and was covered as a special feature by Russia Today so there was no particular reason for the BBC to cover it but this is still an example of a story embarrassing to America due to the way the investigation was mismanaged by the U.S. military.
Filtering news to promote various agendas has been taking place on American news channels for years but this type of propaganda is not limited to that country. It is now clear to me that Russia Today will cheerfully present anything that's potentially embarrassing to the United States or Europe while filtering anything that would be embarrassing to Russia. The information they present is accurate but the filtering discredits the presentation as a whole.
Television news here comes primarily from the BBC, al Jazeera, and RT News. American news channels aren't carried but there's really no reason they should be. Fox News has been known for years as not only pushing a far-right agenda and this is not unusual in the realm of propaganda but they go beyond that to distort the news rather than the simple filtering observed in other channels. CNN isn't carried either as most likely people in Britain really aren't particularly interested in Lindsay Lohan's latest arrest or what Justin Bieber is doing about the monkey he abandoned in Germany.
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