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    Default Russia Today: TV station that revels in conspiracies

    With its slick graphics, jacked-up music, endless ‘human interest’ videos and an ‘alternative’ world view that revels in conspiracy, the Kremlin-funded TV and internet news and current affairs broadcaster, RT, has energy and appeal, especially to the young.

    In the world of RT — otherwise known as RussiaToday — an Anglo-American plot lurks around almost every corner, while Russia is the victim of a ‘fake news’ offensive that seeks to portray it as the bogeyman on the world stage.

    Based in Millbank Tower overlooking the Thames, the UK bureau is Vladimir Putin’s mouthpiece here — part of a £200 million global information campaign (RT broadcasts on TV and the web in some 100 countries and claims an audience of 70 million) which, its critics say, seeks to undermine Western values and interests to the Russian president’s benefit.


    RT’s editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, right, pictured walking beside Russian president Vladimir Putin, centre, has compared the station's mission to a military enterprise

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rn-values.html

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    so it's like the VOA...it's state TV -what do you expect?

    I found it very useful when looking at the Maiden, and Libya, where the western press was 1 sided.

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    so it's like the VOA...it's state TV -what do you expect?

    I found it very useful when looking at the Maiden, and Libya, where the western press was 1 sided.
    Voice of America has been around since 1947.. When did you begin listening to it?

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    "With its slick graphics, jacked-up music, endless ‘human interest’ videos and an ‘alternative’ world view that revels in conspiracy," sounds an awful lot like a "News" network we have here in the United States

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    "With its slick graphics, jacked-up music, endless ‘human interest’ videos and an ‘alternative’ world view that revels in conspiracy," sounds an awful lot like a "News" network we have here in the United States
    CNN

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    Voice of America has been around since 1947.. When did you begin listening to it?
    I used to when I was into shortwave radio..I'm in my mid 60's- long before there was an internet

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    I used to when I was into shortwave radio..I'm in my mid 60's- long before there was an internet
    I have been listening to VOA since 1952.. Russia used to jam the broadcasts quite frequently.

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