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> 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 a
by 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 agoHere’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