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Putin spokesman: US has 'serious problems' with press freedom
Washington Examiner ^ | September 13

Posted on 09/13/2017 10:56:18 AM PDT by deplorableindc

A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin says inquiries by the Justice Department into Russia-funded news outlets show that U.S. press freedom is in decline.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to a reported investigation into the Sputnik news outlet. A fired White House correspondent says he gave the FBI thousands of internal emails showing it's illegally operating as an unregistered propagandist.

A second Russia-funded outlet, Russia Today, said this week the Justice Department told an associated company to register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which Sputnik is under investigation for violating.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: pressfreedom; putin; russia
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To: Hartmann

This is an old story, but the BBC, obviously the entertainment division created a pretty good series called “Ivanhoe”. If you ever get a chance to read it compare the BBC version of Isaac the Jew to Sir Walter Scott’s.

From talking to many of them, I knew that the British had a deep seated hatred for Jews, and the BBC confirmed it.


21 posted on 09/13/2017 1:37:02 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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