Posted on 07/27/2019 2:35:33 AM PDT by NorseViking
Ofcom, Britain's communications watchdog, highlighted seven instances of problematic reporting by the channel. Its handling of the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury played a large part. British communications watchdog Ofcom announced the measure on Friday, after an investigation into RT's coverage of the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine.
The fine of £200,000 ($250,000, €220,000) comes eight months after Ofcom launched its investigation into RT.
Lack of impartiality Ofcom said RT, formerly known as Russia Today, "failed to preserve due impartiality in seven news and current affairs programs between 17 March and 26 April 2018." It said there were "serious and repeated failures" in RT's coverage.
The Russian state broadcaster did not report properly on the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in 2018, Ofcom said. British intelligence blamed the Russian intelligence service GRU for the attack on the former Russian spy.
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If Russia Today is in trouble for a pro-Russia bias, I wonder when they will get around to fining MSNBC and CNN for their pro-totalitarian globalist bias.
Not a fan of RT but something stinks there.
FU England. You are the cause of this mess.
Ofcom (Ministry of Truth)
Well that new guy just got in so let’s see what he can do.
Anybody who knows what he’s like better than me (which is at all) think he can turn things around?
I don’t have high expectations.
Let us get one small detail in perspective here: The stinking Government and it retarded “intelligence” services caused all this trouble.All part of the same globalist setup as the Donkey Party and certain unmentionable alphabet agencies. This BS is world wide.
...did not report properly on the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter...
Shouldn’t alleged be in there somewhere?
apparently failing to faithfully report the transparent lies on the Skirpal case is cause for sanction
Wow. CNN International must be looking at fines into the hundreds of millions, then.
Oh, wait. Who am I kidding? CNN International confirms their biases. So, MiniTrue doesn’t need to fine them in order to be correct.
Most likely their Syrian coverage was favorable to Assad, which, I guess, in today’s world is fake news.
But what if Assad were REALLY fighting the likes of groups like ISIS who throw gays off buildings, rather than a handful of peasants with pump-action 22’s, as the rest of the media claims? Then what? What if Trump actually DID NOT collude with Russia to win the 2016? Then what?
Boris Johnson, get rid of this office. The government has no business deciding what is and is not good news. Let the market place determine what should be reported.
Don’t like government censorship....no matter who does it.
And does the “law” in the U.K. think that RT also controlled all other means of media coverage of those stories in the U.K.??? (they may be stupid but they are not that stupid)
“Freedom of Speech” in the U.K. is being systematically destroyed by “hate speech” laws and government legal controls on press freedom. Press freedom as part of freedom of speech does not mean your preferred news provider always tells the truth with no bias. It only means that your favored news provider is up against alternatives whom it cannot control.
I am not saying that RT was not biased in their reporting. I am sure they were (and are); they are an arm of Putin’s mobocracy after all.
But U.K. citizens are not blind and ignorant of that fact and have dozens of alternative news outlets available to them; and RT did not and could not control what any of those other outlets reported.
Prosecuting RT over the obvious, and only as it suits U.K. policy interests with respect to Russia, and not in hundreds of other cases of blatant Russia-favorable bias by RT, helps demonstrate that “free speech” in the U.K. is not really free speech, just the speech the government allows.
That is why I posted. Not a fan of RT but ‘Ofcom’ sounds weird. I don’t remember North Korea fining foreign news outlets over news they find wrong. UK does.
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