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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEmmys 2014: Russia Today has been nominated for Guantanamo hunger strike coverage
RT has been nominated for a prestigious International Emmy award for its groundbreaking coverage of the six-month-long mass hunger strike by inmates at Guantanamo Bay.
In its investigation, the channel helped to bring the daily brutality suffered by inmates to millions of viewers across the globe, keeping the scandal in the headlines when many in the mainstream media ignored or downplayed the story. In May 2013, President Barack Obama promised to begin letting go prisoners who were cleared for release in January 2010. However, since that promise made over 440 days ago, only 17 of the 86 have been allowed to leave.
We are really happy and proud that we have managed to be nominated for such a prestigious award for a third time, said RTs editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan. The project about Guantanamo became one of the most important investigations last year in television because the mainstream mass media did not cover this topic very much. We believe we will win.
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)estevamsp33
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(269,164 posts)Let me get the popcorn.
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estevamsp33
(38 posts)This is their THIRD nomination for the Emmy under the category "news". Pretty good for a conspiracy theory/propaganda outlet, don't you think?
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rt-scores-third-emmy-nomination-for-news-271104511.html
KoKo
(84,711 posts)From your Link:
RT's previous nominations were in 2012 for reporting on the Occupy Wall Street movement and in 2010 for coverage of the President Barack Obama's state visit to Moscow. Finalists for the Current Affairs and News Awards are selected among entries from top international TV news channels by a panel of jurors made up of experienced television and journalism professionals. RT is the first Russian TV channel in history to receive three International Emmy nominations.
estevamsp33
(38 posts)NEWS
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RT's Guantanamo coverage penetrates the global source of controversy and shame. Detention without trial, and a spiral into a mass hunger strike that ran over six months and brought force-feeding into the global news cycle were at the core of our coverage that featured activists, experts, and ex-inmates alike.
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http://www.iemmys.tv/news_item.aspx?id=185
frazzled
(18,402 posts)D'oh.
Here are the list of nominees for the regular Emmys in the category of News and Documentary:
http://emmyonline.com/news_35th_nominations
zappaman
(20,606 posts)The US has it's own.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)at GITMO. They also did an excellent docu on Bee Death and GMO seeds. And another on US Iraq/Afghanistan soldiers returning home and how they felt about their service and the difficulties of reorienting to being back in USA.
reorg
(3,317 posts)governing some discussion forums on the web?
Or are they shunned as reliable news providers because their news are sometimes hitting where it hurts?
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)The US did it, the US did it.....
Maybe they need to add a conspiracy theory category.
reorg
(3,317 posts)but every single Western propaganda outlet was parroting the "Putin did it, Putin did it!" line.
RT's reporting on the MH17 accident was thorough and extensive.