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RT America permanently shuts down US operations, lays off staff as Russia-Ukraine crisis escalates
Joseph A. Wulfsohn , Jacqui Heinrich ^ | 3/3/22 | March 3, 2022 6:11pm EST

Posted on 03/03/2022 4:12:36 PM PST by conservative98

RT America, the Russian state-funded media outlet, is permanently shutting down as tensions rise between the U.S. and Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

An employee for RT America told Fox News that she and approximately 120 other staffers, who were described as Americans, were informed in a meeting on Thursday that operations were shutting down at the network's Washington D.C. headquarters as well as the New York, Los Angeles and Miami bureaus. The staffer said employees were given severance packages.

This comes as DirecTV announced it was removing RT America from its programming, saying "In line with our previous agreement with RT America, we are accelerating this year's contract expiration timeline and will no longer offer their programming effective immediately," according to Axios. Spotify has also removed RT-linked podcasts from its platform.

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1 posted on 03/03/2022 4:12:36 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Your jobs have been liquidated.


2 posted on 03/03/2022 4:15:40 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steve Malzberg

Come home to WABC!


3 posted on 03/03/2022 4:16:13 PM PST by conservative98
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Good thing they are getting rid of RT I could have committed a ThoughtCrime by listening to them.


4 posted on 03/03/2022 4:17:25 PM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: conservative98

Not that it matters to the Globalists, but RT runs almost as many anti-Russia/Putin articles as pro-Russia.


5 posted on 03/03/2022 4:17:46 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: BobL

#Zelensky is a #hero. Simply amazing. https://t.co/M0hHDN0zk1— Steve Malzberg Show (@MalzbergShow) March 2, 2022


6 posted on 03/03/2022 4:19:39 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

CNN Tells Viewers it’s ILLEGAL to Read Wikileaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQllunHssEk


7 posted on 03/03/2022 4:19:48 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: conservative98

I have occasionally listened Radio Sputnik, 105.5 here in the DC area.


8 posted on 03/03/2022 4:20:30 PM PST by jimfree (My 19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: conservative98

LOL!


9 posted on 03/03/2022 4:23:19 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: conservative98

Interesting; Malzberg is a guest on one of the RT shows.


10 posted on 03/03/2022 4:24:28 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: conservative98

One less viewpoint to hear. It’s getting awful uni-media out there.


11 posted on 03/03/2022 4:24:35 PM PST by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind blows too much)
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To: WildHighlander57

He was a host of Eat The Press.

https://twitter.com/malzbergshow

As Greg Kelly was saying today RT is more factual than most of the mass media channels out there. RT is just a platform, the content comes from the US.


12 posted on 03/03/2022 4:35:04 PM PST by conservative98
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Good, now we won’t have all these easily manipulated parrots spewing out their nonsense.


13 posted on 03/03/2022 4:37:16 PM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: conservative98

I guess that means that a couple FReepers have lost their jobs.


14 posted on 03/03/2022 4:39:35 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ought-six

You’re a regular comedian.


15 posted on 03/03/2022 4:40:31 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“You’re a regular comedian.”

You’ve seen their posts.


16 posted on 03/03/2022 4:53:24 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: conservative98
I actually watched RT on YouTube tonight, and there was a documentary about Donbass and ethnic Russians there (decried as "seperatists" by the MSM) being daily attacked, blown up, shot up and butched by neo-Nazi Azor fighers, many of who inhabit the Ukrainian army. Some horrific footage of bodies of children, mass graves, etc.

Propaganda to be sure. But so is CNN. In the U.S. we have no idea of the "truth." Only narratives. Worship the clown Prez Velensky, and defend the great "democracy" of Ukraine. Or you are a traitor. Or something. Reality is somewhat more complex.

17 posted on 03/03/2022 5:28:39 PM PST by montag813
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To: conservative98

Remove ChiCom channels too.


18 posted on 03/03/2022 5:40:10 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: MattMusson

The government only wants their own propaganda over the airwaves not Russians.


19 posted on 03/03/2022 6:03:13 PM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: jimfree

Radio Sputnik International is still streaming this evening.


20 posted on 03/03/2022 7:47:34 PM PST by bobcat62
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