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"not as crazy as Fox News"

That isn't a high bar. It is good to know the biases of any news source. RT might not be as crazy as Fox News, but they are every bit as biased.
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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?!?!
RT is a complete and total propaganda machine with the sole purpose of propping up Putin. They make Fox News look fair and balanced by comparison.
They're still reporting that a Ukrainian fighter jet shot down the Malaysia Airlines flight over Eastern Ukraine in a conspiracy to make Russia look bad. Even after all the investigations have proven that it was a Russian made surface to air missile.
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Good Afternoon Charles,
Like @ 1, I believe every televised news source IS very biased. I stopped watching TV news ages ago. From Dan Rather to Brian Williams, CBS and NBC among others have created stories as welI. I READ the news. It's more reliable because it relies less on imagery (anchors, reporters etc.) than the printed word. I read the NY Times, heavily biased in favor of the Democratic party but it's better to read it than to watch it. However, they too have their fakes. Jayson Blair comes to mind:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/us/cor…

So, Foxnews isn't alone.

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It's SO nice to know some things haven't changed since the 1970s. It's just like Radio Moscow and Soviet Life!

Putin is so retro he's NOW.
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I also have to point out that if you tried to put up an equivalent poster in Moscow you'd be arrested. Under Putin the media is tightly controlled and is now purely his mouthpiece. Any journalists with an opposing view have effectively been silenced, jailed, or murdered. Is this the media landscape that you're supporting here?
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@3, By making sense, you mean propping up a murderous dictator under the guise of stopping ISIS? That's a pretty low bar you've set there.
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@1 for the Duh! win
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Those poster were up on the Ave last spring. RT is counterspinning the MH17 crash report so furiously these days that it might just fly apart.
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Geeze, some people are so eager to denounce Mudede for his moral equivalence that they didn't even read what the poor guy wrote.

I gotta wonder if SPG et. al. actually remember the cold war and are tripping down nostalgia street or if this knee-jerking is something they learned from their elders, second hand.
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RT irias actually a pretty good news channel. It's only when they get into the Ukraine/Syria business that you're jerked into realizing it's a Putin channel.
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I don't watch either of the white man's media. Al jazeera American is the tops.
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Radio Moscow 2.0
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Time for a quality post about Putin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wga5A6R9…
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How does a state that has state-owned media, and a long list of other industries completely under state control qualify as "fully capitalist"? Where is that line?
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@10, I gotta wonder if Alden et al actually are capable of seeing what propaganda really is?
Let's ignore the comparison to Fox or any other media outlet with a bias. RT exists purely to push the Putin message. They do not exist to put the facts out there. Occasionally I'm sure there are some facts, but only when they support Putin's interests. Putin's current interest is propping up Asad while he drops barrel bombs on civilians. Putin's other hobby is fucking with Ukraine, and oops! just happened to kill a few hundred passengers on a plane flying over it. Fuck that guy, his bullshit spewing propaganda machine, and you too.

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