Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising

Re:Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising by grandalf on Thursday October 26, 2017 @11:23AM (#15559670)

What content are you talking about? RT has published a lot of great stories that are are not flattering to the US (such as about the Flint Michigan water crisis) but are absolutely legitimate news stories that our corporate media doesn't care to report on.

Might RT simply have the goal of getting a foothold in American news reporting by serving an underserved market? If learning more about the drastic mishandling of the Flint Michigan water crisis stirs class conflict in America, are you telling me you think that is a bad thing? It's what is missing from our democracy!

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Re:Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising by leggomylibro on Thursday October 26, 2017 @12:33PM (#15560406)

Sure, and so was Al Jazeera, but you still have to recognize that they are literally mouthpieces for the nations of Russia and Qatar, respectively.

It's like Voice of America. They can break real stories of corruption and dysfunction, but I'd like to see them investigated and picked up by a more impartial source before I'm going to give them much headroom.

Which is another reason why local journalism is so important and criminalizing/demonizing it for being unflattering is so heinous.

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Re:Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising by FilterSweep on Thursday October 26, 2017 @11:28AM (#15559719)

> Might RT simply have the goal of getting a foothold in American news reporting by serving an underserved market?

What, exactly is the underserved market here? Who exactly are they serving with propaganda?

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Re:Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising by grandalf on Thursday October 26, 2017 @11:36AM (#15559838)

> propaganda

What is the propaganda you are referring to? You seem to assume all of RT's content is propaganda but can't name or link to any stories that qualify. Lol.

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