The Guardian has been comprimised as a news outlet for some time, after they tried to report on the Snowden case. They are just flypaper for for the left nowadays.
While it’s true that Western media is biased as well, the crucial difference is that RT is owned and controlled by the Russian state. The Guardian is independent.
Also, no one at The Guardian will go to prison for 15 years for writing something that doesn’t fit the government’s narrative, and RT has not been blocked in the UK (or the USA), so The Guardian staff still have access to that.
I checked out RT once and found it to be full of shite, not worth my time. They were promoting crank conspiracy theories (unrelated to Russia, in some sort of attempt to get people to mistrust our own government and institutions).
RT has not been banned in the UK. (YouTube is not the UK).
> I checked out RT once and found it to be full of
I am sorry, but then I question your qualification on that.
RT is pretty solid. The user comments on the site are quite bad, but that's it. The content itself is of a higher journalistic standard than what you can expect in its Western counterparts.
Sorry, no offence, but you shouldn't make statements, such as those you made, when you are barely familiar with the medium.
I am pretty familiar with RT and while I am not sure I'd agree with everything they say, their content is much less biased than what you get from the BBC and alike - and that is taking into account that the Russian government will certainly have an influence.
> RT has not been banned in the UK. (YouTube is not the UK).
Yes it has. Why would Youtube censor RT in the UK but not in other places? Obviously the governments were involved.
Point is, RT has been censored in the UK and the EU.
> Assange was not imprisoned for “fake news”.
So you are saying he was imprisoned for "proper news"? Even worse.
And no, I am not saying everything on RT is 100% objective and unbiased.
Especially with programs as Crosstalk you can notice and certain bias from its host. But even that bias is not worse than what appears to be standard with Western propaganda.
Plus, even Crosstalk has guests who are much more objective than the show itself. For example, Daniel Lazare.
Then, you have Going Underground, which does question the Russian narrative to a very good and surprising extent. You wouldn't have that on Western TV.
No offence, but I politely ask you not to make such broad statements (which just repeat the official Western propaganda) if you do not really have experience with the program.
I'd recommend to check out https://rumble.com/c/RTNews and focus on the programs. The Donbass reports in-between are interesting, but certainly also propagate a narrative and appeal to your emotional side.
Nobody will question that. Military conflict is always horrible. Be that in the Ukraine, be that in Yemen, be that in Iraq, be that in Afghanistan, be that in any of the other thousand examples throughout human history.
The issue here is, it's not even about the people. It's about a conflict of interest between major powers in the world, who are unable to co-operate but rather escalate their disputes on political or even warfare levels.
The whole thing goes back to the early 2010s and that only recently. The issue itself goes back far longer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4 is a talk of Prof. John Mearsheimer at the University of Chicago and provides some basic insight. If you have the hour to watch it, I highly recommend it.
What does this vapid and emotive statement actually serve to achieve, given the fact that you could say the same about literally any country engaged in warfare throughout the entire history of civilisation?
Are all human beings not worthy of the same respect, regardless of ethnicity or nationality?
Not sure how much the Guardian is in a position to make objective statements on this topic, being in the Western bubble as well and regurgitating the Western propaganda.
The fact that the European Union has completely censored RT is something which most people either do not know or are simply nonchalantly ignoring.
So yes, one may ask what Russians are being told or not being told on this subject, but equally the same question applies to the Western hemisphere.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 45.2 ms ] threadFrom hackernews a couple of years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20937555 (How the UK Security Services neutralised The Guardian )
Futher reading: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/five-reason... (narrator: but they didn't do anything about it..)
Also, no one at The Guardian will go to prison for 15 years for writing something that doesn’t fit the government’s narrative, and RT has not been blocked in the UK (or the USA), so The Guardian staff still have access to that.
And yes, RT has been blocked in the UK as well. https://pasteboard.co/scz8JjU9VuIn.png
Plus
> will go to prison for 15 years for writing something that doesn’t fit the government’s narrative
You may want to ask Julian Assange. Incidentally imprisoned by her Majesty's government.
RT has not been banned in the UK. (YouTube is not the UK).
Assange was not imprisoned for “fake news”.
I am sorry, but then I question your qualification on that.
RT is pretty solid. The user comments on the site are quite bad, but that's it. The content itself is of a higher journalistic standard than what you can expect in its Western counterparts.
Sorry, no offence, but you shouldn't make statements, such as those you made, when you are barely familiar with the medium.
I am pretty familiar with RT and while I am not sure I'd agree with everything they say, their content is much less biased than what you get from the BBC and alike - and that is taking into account that the Russian government will certainly have an influence.
> RT has not been banned in the UK. (YouTube is not the UK).
Yes it has. Why would Youtube censor RT in the UK but not in other places? Obviously the governments were involved.
Point is, RT has been censored in the UK and the EU.
> Assange was not imprisoned for “fake news”.
So you are saying he was imprisoned for "proper news"? Even worse.
Especially with programs as Crosstalk you can notice and certain bias from its host. But even that bias is not worse than what appears to be standard with Western propaganda.
Plus, even Crosstalk has guests who are much more objective than the show itself. For example, Daniel Lazare.
Then, you have Going Underground, which does question the Russian narrative to a very good and surprising extent. You wouldn't have that on Western TV.
No offence, but I politely ask you not to make such broad statements (which just repeat the official Western propaganda) if you do not really have experience with the program.
I'd recommend to check out https://rumble.com/c/RTNews and focus on the programs. The Donbass reports in-between are interesting, but certainly also propagate a narrative and appeal to your emotional side.
The issue here is, it's not even about the people. It's about a conflict of interest between major powers in the world, who are unable to co-operate but rather escalate their disputes on political or even warfare levels.
The whole thing goes back to the early 2010s and that only recently. The issue itself goes back far longer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4 is a talk of Prof. John Mearsheimer at the University of Chicago and provides some basic insight. If you have the hour to watch it, I highly recommend it.
Are all human beings not worthy of the same respect, regardless of ethnicity or nationality?
But yes, we should not forget about Yemen where the same thing is happening
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/03/saudi-... (incidentally a Guardian link :-D)
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Not sure how much the Guardian is in a position to make objective statements on this topic, being in the Western bubble as well and regurgitating the Western propaganda.
The fact that the European Union has completely censored RT is something which most people either do not know or are simply nonchalantly ignoring.
So yes, one may ask what Russians are being told or not being told on this subject, but equally the same question applies to the Western hemisphere.