I thought he was like one of the most important whistleblowers of our time exposing war crimes and shit. Some of you don’t wanna see him live another day, why is that?
I thought he was like one of the most important whistleblowers of our time exposing war crimes and shit. Some of you don’t wanna see him live another day, why is that?
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Yes, literally a show on Russian state TV. He got a paycheck from the Russian government. I mean, is it that hard to grasp that this little fact makes the “he’s a russian asset” accusations at least understandable? And I am not saying he is one. I am not that informed about him and Wikileaks to have a strong opinion.
Yeah, I think it’s too much to say he was a Russian asset because he was hired to interview people for RT. He may just as well just have been used by the network to score some quick views by having him show up. And it’s not like he could make his talk show in many western countries where he would be extradited the moment he crossed the border.
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RT is literally state controlled. It has no independence. It operates in literally the same offices as RIA Novosti.
You are out of your mind if you are trying to claim they are anything other than state TV by any meaningful definition.
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You’re full of it. From the time they were founded, they operated in the same building as RIA Novosti. RT didn’t exist until AFTER the various independent journalists and their associations were ALREADY being rounded up and cast out of Russian society.
They are now and have always been state-controlled. Stop apologizing for dictatorships.
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RT was founded in 2005.
By 2008 they were parroting clearly-bullshit Russian talking points about Georgia in the 2008 war.
World Tomorrow aired in 2012.
You. Are. Full. Of. It.
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How much of their funding came from the state? 100%? That’s 100% control.
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You’re too used to people making attacks. That’s not what I was trying to do. I was asking questions. I don’t know how much of RTs funding comes from the state, and I don’t even know if they run commercials.
I don’t know how RT is funded, and I’ve never watched it.
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i’d say %60 advertisers, %39 shareholders, %1 workers and journalistic integrity
-Alexander Lebedev
Even Russian Oligarchs are laughing at how obvious it is.
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1 I’ve seen no evidence Assange is wealthy 2 Sure seems like cozying up to Russia is a decent escape plan when you’re worried about being locked up in the west 3 I never said all his leaks are bs, I rather appreciated what he and Snowden did. I just think he’s a self aggrandizing hypocrite 4 I could easily paint you as a Russian shill but that’d be fucking stupid because I have no evidence beyond “wahhh this guy on the internet has a different read of a situation than meeee”. I’m not sure if you’re an idiot or not, but it seems pretty clear you’re a prick. Bye.
He gained a Russian bias in terms of what documents he published.
“A show on a dictatorial regime’s state TV” doesn’t exactly inspire much confidence either.
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Russian press freedom has been under attack since way before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014. RT 10 years ago is not RT today, but it’s still not exactly an independent news source.
His willingness to publish documents incriminating some governments (famously the American government, of course) and not others shows a bias.
I’m not saying he’s an agent working for the Kremlin, but I do think he shows bias. And honestly, I can’t really blame him after the way the West treated him.
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You are replying to every opinion in here that isn’t gargling his pasty white balls. You sound like a cultist tbh.
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