another piece of hyperbole to push for a nickel.

Alex gets much less play on RT than American media lol.

You may be thinking that folks here are really stupid and gullible, but DU tends to be fairly well informed. You are going to have to do much more than digging up some old videos to fool folks here

Russia Times should just rename themselves the Onion Network already.

I'm beginning to think so.

Compare to Fox News.

I don't always agree with RT, but hey, they are no worse than some of the media we call mainstream.

In the marketplace of ideas, we each have to pick and choose what we like and don't like.

That is why it is important that we study history and other topics that may not make us richer.

The more we understand, the better we can judge what to believe and what to disbelieve.

Try to understand. Read the "RT is trash" article. Hopefully, someday you'll get it. It's not progressive to support RW/neocon lies, and at this point Putin & RT are RW and neocon

I assume all news is propaganda until proved otherwise.

The mainstream media is corporate propaganda.

Most of the so-called "journalists" today are primarily hired to sell something -- an idea, a product, a political point of view, a religion, something.

Democracy Now is a good source of information that you don't get elsewhere.

I also like Ian Master's show on Pacifica- KPFK radio.

I like Thom Hartmann but he has a point of view. If you don't agree with his point of view you might not like him.

I like Matt Taibi.

Who do you like? What media do you like?

Basically, I take in lots of new sources but with a critical eye at all times.

For example, it's crazy to not read the NY Times just because of the WMD disaster and because they are beholden to conventional thinking. Same for BBC. There is still a lot of basic facts and info you can get from the NY Times and BBC, by taking it in critically and comparing it to what you know to be true. Basically, read/listen but watch for the red flags. (The main flaws of NY Times or BBC is not in what they report but in what they don't report.)

I also read the Economist. They can be conservative (but not crazy conservative) but they cover so much world news and the writing is really up there, very intelligent and informed people writing for them.

I listen to Dem. Now with same critical filter, because they can sometimes fall into the trap of the Old Left thinking that anything that opposes the US must be okay, but they provide a lot of valuable info and they cover the things that the NY Times won't cover.

Actually, about Hartmann, it's the opposite of what you say--I agree with him on most issues but I don't like him! I think there's something creepy about him and his decision to take $$$ from the Kremlin disqualifies him from being taken seriously. He gets weird on the subject of Russia and Ukraine, and he has Putin apologists on his show. In the end, he is like those you say "primarily hired to sell something -- an idea, a product, a political point of view, a religion, something."

Anyway thanks for your polite question and the civilized discussion.

They have had a number of people on and have often discussed the false narrative on Ukraine:

which is saying very little, eh ?

lol

regardless of whether you like or don't like things on RT..
the fact remains.. they are government funded and very much bias...

but that's how media is these days..

I honestly don't think anyone should ever just blindly take anything any news source says/reports without finding other sources that would back it up...
they all have their agendas.. whether it profit driven or ideologically driven..

RT is no less or more propaganda than ABC/CBS/NBC or any US based cable channel. For Christs' sake, even BBC pushes lots of trash and doesn't question the nation of origin.

I really do find it funny that you keep escalating your hatred of RT with the same story over and over again. Seriously, If you can present the premise that RT is nothing but propaganda why not go all-in. Give me a 24/7 review of all the news they present and dissect each and every "distortion" or as you state propaganda. Just do your best FAIR or Media Matters or STFU.

and what's funny is your emotional investment in defending RT... Did you even read the "Don't be fooled" piece? Why should I "STFU" about a FOX-style news station run by a totalitarian regime that is passing laws against gays and closing down all the independent media? Here educate yrself http://www.forwardprogressives.com/russias-propaganda-campaign-using-left-obama/

I mean the fat bastard just sticks out like a sore thumb, and he's the one who supposedly reveals these NWO secrets. But more than likely he just makes shit up for monetary gain. Yet if one of his followers goes on a killing spree, he denies everything, and then starts yelling FALSE FLAG! FALSE FLAG! FALSE FLAG!


Give me a f***in' break!

uhnope

Sooner or later, fellows like Alex Jones might BE in a prison - or a prison camp - if the far right get it as they want it.... Even fellows like Alex Jones would be seen as a loose cannon on the deck - and dangerous if the far right in the US ever get into office and is using the power the US government really do have - but who no US government really have been using as it could backfire on them when a new election is up... Remember even Bush jr for all the talk about how easy it would be, if he was a dictator to rule US - he backed down for doing it.. Mostly because he did know how it would backfire on him if he tried it...

But then again - no dictator start up in a vacuum - it is always a trial of "reasons" behind every dictator - just look at europe - who have had a few dictators who have ruined the continent - like Hitler and Stalin, who in their own ways was absolutely dictators in Europe - Hitler and Stalin never get their power just out of the blue - Stalin worked his way up the power structure by emulating more and more power who managed him to make it to the top a few year after Vladimir Lenin died... Hitlers way to power was another one - but it ended up in the same goal - getting absolute power - and to rule as he was seeing fit - even if it cost millions of peoples life in the prosess... Not to say a whole continent in rubbels...

But then again - I'm just a silly european - who might not have a clue about the geniality of the US constitution and governance (As I have been told many times when Little Caligula was in charge, and Dart Vader was the power behind the throne... )

Diclotican

fortunately, we have mostly avoided that in the USA, although the Tea Party attacking the mainstream GOP is getting close to that phenomenon.

uhnope

The neo-conservatives - and specially the outshout Tea Party is close to the same ideals that made Hitler able to control a whole State - and to make it so that everyone who might disagree with him - and the ideals he wanted to build his 3th Reich on - to end up in a KZ camp - or worse murdered by SA or after the long knifes night in 1934, by SS who took responsibility for the KZ camps - and the police - and as the war progressed almost took over the State as a whole - by 1945 Heinrich Himmler was in power of all matters in Germany - only to end up on the loosing end of World War two - and he killed himself when arrested by UK soldiers... After hiding as a farmer for a couple of weeks after the war...


The Tea party is outshout of GOP, no doubt about it - but far more radical than GOP is branded as - even as GOP is seen to have been sliding far to the right the last couple of years - specially after GWB got "elected" In 2000 - in a election show down, who even dictators of old could have made better - it was rather embarrassing to look about it dragged on - and then surprising GWB got elected - even as everyone believed Gore was the next president... After GWB got elected - the extremist got out in the open - and specially after 11 sept 2001 - the whole band of extremists really got the upper hand in the republican Party - and have been in charge ever since...

But the Tea Party have not the central power yet - as GOP have - and is in many ways way to week by the lack of a central power - that be a person, or some institution who could organize The Tea Party to a real "power to be reckoned with" - The Tea Party is week - and maybe even lacing the ability to be under a central control all together - even if they is able minded enough to make a lot of damage for the ones who is in their way - that be moms for weapon control - or POWs who have been given their freedom again, because of a prison swap.... The Tea Party is no hero for the US - they are poison - of hate and ignorance - who is given far to much air time - and who is available to do a lot of damage before the poison is out of the system...

Diclotican

You really can't lump Alex Jones in with Thom Hartman...

RT is a great resource, you want to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

You have to sort it out no matter what the source.And RT is a great resource. You however seem to be a paid troll that is on this board for the sole purpose to bash RT.

who the heck is paying to bash RT? Please let me know, I'll take the dough. It'd be like getting paid to bash FOX or like falling off a log

That you do not hear about on US mainstream news networks. Like all news sources they should not be your only one.

Its true that the top source of funding is the Russian government (So is the CBC here in Canada for what's that worth). So I would listen to it as a station that would like to raise issues that would embarrass the US government, which they do with the Snowden issue for instance. That doesn't mean their stories are to be dismissed out of hand. Of course it cannot be ones sole news source, but it is actually refreshing to hear perspectives on the US which is free from all strings to big American corporate agendas and bought and paid for politicians. Not only refreshing but vitally important.