This is the guy Putin hand picked to run RT.
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, tightened control over his country's media on Monday by dissolving the main state news agency and replacing it with an organization aimed at promoting Moscow's image abroad.
The move to abolish RIA Novosti and create a news agency to be known as Rossiya Segodnya (Russia Today) is the second in two weeks strengthening Putin's hold on the media, as he tries to reassert his authority after protests against his rule.
In case there weren't enough red flags already, Putin named Dmitry Kiselyov as the head of the new media outlet. (The new agency’s directors will be directly appointed by the president's office.) For those unfamiliar with Kiselyov, he's made a career as a pro-Putin propagandist who sees foreign conspiracies against Moscow almost anywhere he looks. His most infamous comments, however, were made last year about gays and lesbians. "I think it is too little to fine gays for homosexual propaganda," Kiselyov said during one of his TV appearances. "They should be forbidden from donating blood, sperm. And in the case of an automobile accident, their hearts should be buried in the ground or burned."
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/12/09/ria_novosti_russia_today_putin_replaces_a_state_run_news_outlet_with_a_state.html
As the space for independent journalism shrinks, the propaganda apparatus is working at feverish speed. Dmitry Kiselyov, a television host and media executive who represents the id of the state propaganda machine at its most grotesque, blamed this same fifth column for the sanctions imposed against more than thirty Russian and Ukrainian officials by the European Union. Kiselyov, who was among those sanctioned, cited Putin’s speech as evidence to blame the fifth column for compiling the blacklist. “Putin legalized that term in the political language of Russia,” he said. “We know their names. We know how they wrote our names and sent them to these Western embassies.” On another segment, he identified two of the fifth columnists: Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader now under house arrest, and Sergei Parkhomenko, an editor and civic activist who called for sanctions against those responsible for state propaganda.
In Russia, the will of the state is expressed with signals of varying subtlety; the invocation of “national traitors” is among the less oblique examples of the genre. A new Web site called predatel.net—the word means “traitor”—has recently launched, featuring a list of public figures that the site’s anonymous creators deem to have betrayed Russia, whether by criticizing the annexation of Crimea or by supporting Western sanctions. As the site’s short manifesto puts it, “We believe that Russian citizens who insult our soldiers and who cast doubt on the need to fight neo-Nazis are traitors, no matter whether they are talented journalists, writers, and directors.” The site has a form for users to “suggest a traitor.”
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/putins-new-war-on-traitors
The airwaves are filled with assaults on the treachery of Russian liberals and American manipulations. Dmitri Kiselyov, the head of Russia Today, Putin’s newly created information agency, and the host, on Sunday nights, of the TV magazine show “News of the Week,” is a masterly, and unapologetic, purveyor of the Kremlin line. With his theatrical hand gestures and brilliantly insinuating intonation, he tells his viewers that Russia is the only country in the world that can turn the U.S. into “radioactive dust,” that the anti-gay-propaganda laws are insufficiently strict, and that Ukraine is not a real country but merely “virtual.” When I remarked on his delivery, during a recent visit to his offices, Kiselyov was pleased: “Gestures go right to the subconscious without any resistance.”
Putin, Kiselyov has said on the air, “is comparable among his predecessors in the twentieth century only with Stalin.” He meant it as a compliment.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/11/watching-eclipse
He sneers at Russia's liberals and denounces them as traitors,he sneers at gay people,he repeats fantastical Alex Jones type conspiracy theories as if they're real news reports,he brags that Russia can turn the U.S. into nuclear ash and there is absolutely no comparison in the U.S. short of Fox News and right wing sources,none of which are hand picked by the POTUS.An apt comparison would be a POTUS choosing Glenn Beck to pick and choose which media outlets Americans will have access to.It's beyond ridiculous to see RT defended here,the powers that control Russian media have no love for liberals.They are the Russian equivalent of America's Tea Party.
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... and the crap we get served in 'Murica is so very *independant*!
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