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I don't understand how any value can be gained from reading RT. People often say it's a way to hear the other side but Russia doesn't have a free press so...who

I don't understand how any value can be gained from reading RT. People often say it's a way to hear the other side but Russia doesn't have a free press so...whose side is that? It's the "side" that the Russian government wants you to believe. > Russian journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov believes there is neither freedom of the press nor freedom of expression in his home country. "The history of independent journalism is over, [it's] finished," the 61-year-old said on September 11 at the start of the first Hamburg Press Freedom Week. The editor in chief of the Novaya gazeta newspaper, which is banned in Russia, told Germany's NDR public broadcaster that, since he still lives in Moscow and will return there, he can only say in Hamburg what he can also say there, and "in Moscow, I can't talk about anything anymore." I think that there are two dangerous assumptions going around: 1. That you must "dig" for good information. Meaning that all large media orgs can be dismissed out of hand for no other reason than being large. The more you dig the closer you are to the truth! 2. That Western media can never understand, study, or discuss non-western subjects.

pphysch 3y ago
Then ignore RT. It's entirely up to you if you want to ignore the perspectives of major geopolitical players. All I'm advocating for is healthy skepticism and having a diverse media diet.
- mopsi 3y ago
  RT does not offer "perspectives". Its sole purpose is to warp viewers' perceptions towards the position beneficial to Putin's clan without any regard for truth and objectivity. Since the latest crackdown, the entire Russian public sphere has become performative. You have a wide variety of discussions shows, but all their guests are pre-vetted by the Kremlin and all they do is reiterate official talking points. Officials hold press conferences, but all questions and answers are pre-agreed. The country has thousands of newspapers and radio stations, but they only repeat the same central messages from the Kremlin instead of expressing the ideas of their staff and collaborators. It is astonishing, really, how the public exchange of ideas has ceased in such a short time and how the entire society now willingly accepts a fake reality just like in Brezhnev's era.
  - LargoLasskhyfv 3y ago
    > the entire Russian public sphere has become performative. You have a wide variety of discussions shows, but all their guests are pre-vetted by the Kremlin and all they do is reiterate official talking points. I perceive that as not much different from the few German media I still occassionally watch. Since at least a decade, actually. And I've got grumpy about them much earlier, tossed my TV in 1996 already. But wasn't even so bad then, as it is now. Edit: I also like their "Question more!" Just for the hell of it. Yes! Question all the shit the suckpuppets are bubbling out. All the times.

pphysch 3y ago

Then ignore RT. It's entirely up to you if you want to ignore the perspectives of major geopolitical players. All I'm advocating for is healthy skepticism and having a diverse media diet.

mopsi 3y ago
RT does not offer "perspectives". Its sole purpose is to warp viewers' perceptions towards the position beneficial to Putin's clan without any regard for truth and objectivity. Since the latest crackdown, the entire Russian public sphere has become performative. You have a wide variety of discussions shows, but all their guests are pre-vetted by the Kremlin and all they do is reiterate official talking points. Officials hold press conferences, but all questions and answers are pre-agreed. The country has thousands of newspapers and radio stations, but they only repeat the same central messages from the Kremlin instead of expressing the ideas of their staff and collaborators. It is astonishing, really, how the public exchange of ideas has ceased in such a short time and how the entire society now willingly accepts a fake reality just like in Brezhnev's era.
- LargoLasskhyfv 3y ago
  > the entire Russian public sphere has become performative. You have a wide variety of discussions shows, but all their guests are pre-vetted by the Kremlin and all they do is reiterate official talking points. I perceive that as not much different from the few German media I still occassionally watch. Since at least a decade, actually. And I've got grumpy about them much earlier, tossed my TV in 1996 already. But wasn't even so bad then, as it is now. Edit: I also like their "Question more!" Just for the hell of it. Yes! Question all the shit the suckpuppets are bubbling out. All the times.