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Here's some evidence to support your hunch about Russia: > Across our interviews, our respondents [former and current RT journalists] agreed that the goals of

Here's some evidence to support your hunch about Russia: > Across our interviews, our respondents [former and current RT journalists] agreed that the goals of the channel [RT] since 2008 have been and still are as follows. First, to push the idea that Western countries have as many problems as Russia. Second, to encourage conspiracy theories about media institutions in the West in order to discredit and delegitimize them. This is clearly adherent to the channel's “Questions More” slogan. Third, to create controversy and to make people criticize the channel, because it suggests that the channel is important, an approach that would particularly help RT managers get more funding from the government. -- “Anything that Causes Chaos”: The Organizational Behavior of Russia Today (RT), https://academic.oup.com/joc/article/70/5/623/5912109 https://academic.oup.com/joc/article/70/5/623/5912109

hindsightbias 5y ago
I haven’t looked at RT recently, but I didnt see conspiracy talk. I never saw a truther debate there. RT doesn’t have to lie at all to document many of the problems in the west. It was usually what should be Capt. Obvious stuff, stories not covered in the US media, Syria/Iraq/Afghanistan coverage, Snowden and Assange (take off the RT logo and the HN crowd would be orgasming to it), stories of racial inequality, financial fraud, crazy defense budgets, etc. I suppose giving Commies like Chris Hedges and Noam Chomskys of the world a platform (that they can’t get in US media) is some noxious evil compared to mainlining on MSNBC or Fox. Propaganda can be 100% true, and from what I remember, they were quite good at it.
- commoner 5y ago
  > The channel [RT] has provided the likes of Alex Jones, Webster Tarpley, David Ray Griffin and Jim Marrs with the opportunity to promote, to an international audience, their ideas about the New World Order, 9/11, the Bilderberg group or the climate change conspiracy, all while being treated with absolute deference by the channel's journalists. Embedded video clips of appearances on Russia Today have become a regular feature on the websites of American conspiracy theorists, where they are brandished as a sign of credibility and mainstream recognition. -- Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Conspiracy_Theories/e0ilsF4VcTQC https://www.google.com/books/edition/Conspiracy_Theories/e0i...
  - hindsightbias 5y ago
    Here’s an RT op-ed on the internet censorship of Alex Jones - similar stories written by acceptable sources have been at the top of HN in the last couple of months re Trump, etc. Except this is from 2018. It’s good that HN is catching up to RT: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/435466-alex-jones-ban-internet-censorship/ https://www.rt.com/op-ed/435466-alex-jones-ban-internet-cens... I don’t know the others, but LaRouchite (lol, that pro-Soviet org) Tarpley was a regular when I watched and I dont remember 9/11 stuff, but he was on all the CIA, Assange, Color Revolution stuff. Here he is on that other Putin channel, C-SPAN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLB1umCHaqw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLB1umCHaqw

hindsightbias 5y ago

I haven’t looked at RT recently, but I didnt see conspiracy talk. I never saw a truther debate there. RT doesn’t have to lie at all to document many of the problems in the west. It was usually what should be Capt. Obvious stuff, stories not covered in the US media, Syria/Iraq/Afghanistan coverage, Snowden and Assange (take off the RT logo and the HN crowd would be orgasming to it), stories of racial inequality, financial fraud, crazy defense budgets, etc. I suppose giving Commies like Chris Hedges and Noam Chomskys of the world a platform (that they can’t get in US media) is some noxious evil compared to mainlining on MSNBC or Fox. Propaganda can be 100% true, and from what I remember, they were quite good at it.

commoner 5y ago
> The channel [RT] has provided the likes of Alex Jones, Webster Tarpley, David Ray Griffin and Jim Marrs with the opportunity to promote, to an international audience, their ideas about the New World Order, 9/11, the Bilderberg group or the climate change conspiracy, all while being treated with absolute deference by the channel's journalists. Embedded video clips of appearances on Russia Today have become a regular feature on the websites of American conspiracy theorists, where they are brandished as a sign of credibility and mainstream recognition. -- Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Conspiracy_Theories/e0ilsF4VcTQC https://www.google.com/books/edition/Conspiracy_Theories/e0i...
- hindsightbias 5y ago
  Here’s an RT op-ed on the internet censorship of Alex Jones - similar stories written by acceptable sources have been at the top of HN in the last couple of months re Trump, etc. Except this is from 2018. It’s good that HN is catching up to RT: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/435466-alex-jones-ban-internet-censorship/ https://www.rt.com/op-ed/435466-alex-jones-ban-internet-cens... I don’t know the others, but LaRouchite (lol, that pro-Soviet org) Tarpley was a regular when I watched and I dont remember 9/11 stuff, but he was on all the CIA, Assange, Color Revolution stuff. Here he is on that other Putin channel, C-SPAN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLB1umCHaqw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLB1umCHaqw