Russia Today - now in the UK, for the UK. Really.

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Heard this on R4 this morning on the drive in, or rather heard a RT spokeswoman getting roasted over the channel's obvious vitriolic bias and propagandha.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/28/kremlin-rt-uk-news-channel-russia-today

So now we have a state sponsored news station beaming their version of the truth in to the UK, whilst you could argue that's no different to the BBC World Service I can't help but think they'd have a slightly more moderate approach than RT.

Personally this gnaws at me a little bit, knowing Putin's agenda and modus operandi when questioned about such things. "No, not at all it's nothing sinister. After all you have BBC World Service, why not RT?"

To echo the final point on the R4 interview: Dangerous encroachment or harmless posturing that people of the UK should be able to see through?

edit - Just comparing reports of the same story.

BBC - RAF Jets Intercept Latvian Cargo Plan Over Kent

RT - The Russians are coming! UK Media Hypes up interception of Latvian Plane

RT said:
Russian planes everywhere

The excitement surrounding the intercept – apparently based on post-9/11 terrorist attack fears – came amid a heightened terror alert in the UK at the time of the allied military campaign against the Islamic State.
Media reports mirrored the panic frenzy triggered by the incident, but in a peculiar way: first saying that the cargo plane was “Russian” and then switching to a “Russian-made” reference.
Both takes were wrong: the Antonov design bureau, the producer of An-26 planes, is a Ukrainian company founded in Soviet times, and the plane in question belonged to a Latvian-registered company, ironically called RAF-Avia.
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BBC said:
The RAF confirmed the aircraft was a Russian-made Antonov An-26.
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Loving the terrorism preamble, then a quick dig at a small matter of semantics. Incidentally the Antanov company was founded in Russia according to Wikipedia.


BBC said:
"To fulfil their quick reaction role the Typhoons were cleared to travel at supersonic speed, any noise disturbance as a result of this is regretted."
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RT said:
“To fulfill their quick reaction role, they were cleared to travel at supersonic speed
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No apology here. :D
 
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BBC news on the so called news channel is a joke. In any one hour you will have the headlines three times with a "still to come" message, the weather will have been on twice. You might get politics in the EU or Hard Talk or even the travel show for 25 minutes. South America will rarely get mentioned but a shooting in the US will receive saturation coverage.

I awoke yesterday to find a skate park given listed status and this was still included in the bulletins some 24 hours later.

I don't watch RT as it is blatantly biased but I do watch Al Jazeera as it covers stories not shown elsewhere. One I watched recently was the dangers women were having trying to get families to agree to their children having polio jabs in the tribal regions of Pakistan.

The BBC has pretty much lost it's crown as the place to go to for news.
 
Cosimo said:
Just a bit more propaganda for the locals by the looks of it. Not news at all.
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Sure because the west 'doesn't do' propaganda, does it?

Shame all is quiet regarding the investigation of the Airliner shot down over Ukraine isn't it? Why haven't the ATC tapes been released by the Ukrainian authorities as requested by the investigators?
 
randal said:
Heard this on R4 this morning on the drive in, or rather heard a RT spokeswoman getting roasted over the channel's obvious vitriolic bias and propagandha.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/28/kremlin-rt-uk-news-channel-russia-today

So now we have a state sponsored news station beaming their version of the truth in to the UK, whilst you could argue that's no different to the BBC World Service I can't help but think they'd have a slightly more moderate approach than RT.

Personally this gnaws at me a little bit, knowing Putin's agenda and modus operandi when questioned about such things. "No, not at all it's nothing sinister. After all you have BBC World Service, why not RT?"

To echo the final point on the R4 interview: Dangerous encroachment or harmless posturing that people of the UK should be able to see through?
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Classic Whataboutism, pioneered by the Soviet Union and mastered by Putin thanks to a few loud mouthed useful idiots in the West who "like RT".

I thought we had laws about the quality of broadcasts in this country, particularly about news programmes being fair and impartial? The way to deal with Russia Today isn't to censor it, but to keep fining it for every contravention of broadcast law. Make Putin subsidise the British taxpayer.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
RT has been on Freeview and Freesat and Sky and Virgin for years now, for absolutely years.
What is new about this version?
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I guess Russia invading Ukraine has something to do with the increasing concern about a Kremlin mouthpiece being broadcast on British TV.
 
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