It's easy to charge Russia Today with propaganda but not so easy when RT calls your bluff as it has done with Michael McFaul. (RT: ‘Let’s do it! We are waiting for the pilot!’ RT offers Michael McFaul his own show)
McFaul announced he got nowhere in requesting a show on Russia Today to present opposing views. RT responded back, "Bring it."
Former US ambassador to Russia turned full-time Kremlin critic Michael McFaul offered to present a show on RT for free to prove that dissenting views are not welcome on the channel. He was immediately given a chance to record a pilot program.
“I volunteered to host my own show on RT. No response yet,” McFaul, who was in Moscow between 2012 and 2014, wrote on his Twitter feed on Tuesday.
Within an hour, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan tweeted back: “Let’s do it! I am waiting for the pilot.”
McFaul announced he got nowhere in requesting a show on Russia Today to present opposing views. RT responded back, "Bring it."
Former US ambassador to Russia turned full-time Kremlin critic Michael McFaul offered to present a show on RT for free to prove that dissenting views are not welcome on the channel. He was immediately given a chance to record a pilot program.
“I volunteered to host my own show on RT. No response yet,” McFaul, who was in Moscow between 2012 and 2014, wrote on his Twitter feed on Tuesday.
Within an hour, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan tweeted back: “Let’s do it! I am waiting for the pilot.”
- RT
Making charges against Russia is easy on Western media since few will refute whatever is said. Spewing ideological bilge water in front of a discerning audience won't meet with that kind of passive success, however.
Russia Today doesn't need me to defend it as a news organization and it's highly-rated, possibly the highest, in the work it does. However, the endless charges of propaganda against any source which actually conveys real information are tedious and insulting. The only way it works is if we lack sufficient capability in inductive reasoning to discern the difference. I will neither accepts insult nor patronization so I go to Russia Today and this episode cracks me right up.
OK, cowboy, show us your cards (larfs).
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