This is why we keep getting surprised by events.With apparently no irony at all, Robinson then outlines how news consumers should avoid being conned.

These days, with Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, what isn’t a straight out lie is often an outrageous distortion: the CIA funds fascists in Ukraine? But almost no one else reported on the case—it was old, tenuous, and even a prominent conservative commenter called it “small potatoes.” One outlet that did pick up the story, however, was Russia Today was conceived as a soft-power tool to improve Russia’s image abroad, to counter the anti-Russian bias the Kremlin saw in the Western media. Last summer, about eight months before he was assassinated, he appeared on a Ukrainian talk show where one of the guests proposed combatting the likes of RT with an array of Western counter propaganda.Nemtsov objected. In this episode of Keiser Report’s annual Summer Solutions series, Max and Stacy chat to hard money advocate Alasdair Macleod of GoldMoney.com about the headline-grabbing moves in gold prices.

Though the project had roots in the cold war-era “Radio Moscow,” which beamed news from the Soviet Union around the world, it is better explained by Putin’s obsession with television. In the U.K., the channel is the fourth most watched 24-hour news station in the country, beating rivals like Fox News.Putin founded RT in 2005 with a budget of about $30 million and gradually ramped it up to more than $300 million per year by 2010. One particular challenge for the network came in March 2014, when Putin sent his troops to occupy Crimea.

"They also look for diverse issues to focus on." Often, it seemed that Russia Today was just a way to stick it to the U.S. from behind the façade of legitimate newsgathering. (The channel’s budget was just $30 million the first year, but it grew in subsequent years before taking a hit during the global economic crisis that began in 2008. To be assigned to cover the Russian president, especially for television, a reporter has to be absolutely reliable in his docility, and in his ability to ask softball questions.

Many of these ambitious “provincials” eventually come to Moscow, where as hungry outsiders they quickly outpace their less-driven Muscovite peers. On the contrary, Russia is still desperately trying to fend off stereotypes of itself—the endemic corruption, the whimsical autocracy of the state—that have kept much foreign capital, and many Russian émigrés, from returning. RT is the first Russian 24/7 English-language news channel which brings the Russian view on global news. “My parents have nothing to do with television,” Simonyan says. RT, anciennement Russia Today, est une chaîne de télévision d'information internationale en continu, financée par l'État russe1. “The mood was very eager, very fun. “There is no censorship per se,” says another RT reporter. war,” says another former RT correspondent who spoke on condition of anonymity. Sort of. Especially in the first days of the conflict, when information was patchy and unreliable. What’s it for, then, if not to talk shop? “But they believe us. It had a real start-up feel to it.” But despite the network’s favored status at home, Russia Today attracted little attention abroad, where it had to compete with behemoths like BBC and Al Jazeera, whose budgets dwarfed RT’s. “Within the first week, I was sent to several locations in Russia.

Funded by / Ownership. The notion would be spread throughout the world, most frequently in impoverished countries, the Soviet Union sought to influence in the Cold War.Eventually the rumour spread back to the USA, and for a while, the seed of the idea is planted in people’s minds: the US government is so heinous it would actually create a virus to kill its own people, and people around the world.This is classic disinformation: the point is not to utterly convince everyone of the truth of any story, but rather to make them think the story is possible: you might not trust the Soviet Union, but can you really trust your own government? This arrangement, repeated by students across the country who have any amount of ambition, is especially common in fields that did not exist in the Soviet era, like advertising, finance, and media, in which there is still a huge personnel vacuum. )Russia’s propaganda outlets are still pretty good at this diversion tactic. Elle a été lancée le 10 décembre 2005 par l'agence de presse RIA Novosti, qui l'abrite dans ses locaux moscovites.

It was March 2009, less than two months after Barack Obama had been sworn into office, promising a different approach toward Russia, one based not on lectures but dialogue. Simonyan, who was hired to run the news outlet, had just turned twenty-five.

“Maybe people watch us like a freak show,” Shevardnadze told me, “but I’ve never been even slightly embarrassed.

“Whatever the accuracy or lack thereof” is a pretty startling way to start here. It even abruptly changed its logo from Russia Today to the less binding “RT,” and built a state-of-the-art studio and newsroom in Washington, D.C. From there it beams original content about American politics and society under its new, more journalistic “Question More” banner. You can easily guess what the Kremlin wants the world to know, so you change your coverage.” Another criticism often leveled at RT is that in striving to bring the West an alternate point of view, it is forced to talk to marginal, offensive, and often irrelevant figures who can take positions bordering on the absurd. That puts it ahead, in those markets, of the BBC and al-Jazeera America, which is funded by the government of Qatar but has faced fewer accusations of anti-American bias. (RT officials deny that this exchange took place.) From the start, Simonyan presided over a staff that wasn’t much older than she was, and today the network still has the feel of a high school newspaper with more money and considerably higher stakes.