Posted on 09/16/2024 11:51:26 PM PDT by Angelino97
As the U.S. ramped up its efforts to ban and block Russian state media network RT globally, sources tell The Hindu that U.S. officials have spoken to the Ministry of External Affairs about joining their actions against what they call “Russian disinformation”, by revoking accreditations and designating their journalists under the “Foreign Missions Act”. However, while the Ministry has been silent on the issue, government officials said that the debate on sanctions is not relevant to India, while a former diplomat said that banning media organisations showed “double standards” by Western countries.
On Friday (September 13, 2024), U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced further sanctions against RT, claiming the media organisation, that has offices around the world including in India, was the “de facto arm of Russia’s intelligence apparatus”. RT and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied the charge. In an official response, a senior RT editor accused the U.S. government of “paranoia” and “being terrified of any truly dissenting voice”.
The U.S. State department said it had launched a “joint diplomatic campaign” along with the United Kingdom and Canada to “rally allies and partners around the world to join us in addressing the threat posed by RT and other machinery of Russian disinformation and covert influence”.
“We urge every ally, every partner to start by treating RT’s activities as they do other intelligence activities by Russia within their borders,” Mr. Blinken said.
Former Indian Ambassador to Russia and France Kanwal Sibal said the U.S.’s actions to curtail and censor Russian media organisations damaged America’s “own values”, even as the U.S. government said it supports freedom of speech.
“This will be viewed as double standards by the Global South that they are trying to target. India will obviously not be responsive to such American pressure,“ said Mr. Sibal
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The US should clean house first of the Big Three, MSNBC, CNN and dozens of others before it goes off about state controlled media.
“The US should clean house first of the Big Three, MSNBC, CNN and dozens of others before it goes off about state controlled media.”
I’ve challenged the Zeepers here to tell me what is so bad about RT, and to point out SPECIFIC STORIES that are ‘lies’. I simply point them to the site and tell them to put up or shut up. They all shut up.
What they don’t like about RT, as that they often sweep around and find stories in WESTERN ‘mainstream’ publications that make the IDIOTS running the US government look bad. But they never seem to find simple lies...because there are very few. Here’s their site, look for yourselves (at least until the Zeepers block it in the US):
(note also that opinion pieces are clearly marked as such, not as ‘news’, as the West now does)
But to be complete here, one could say that RT was purposely playing down the recent Kurst invasion, but then again, how does the Western Media report when the West is being invaded? Not exactly a top story in the news here!
But is a lot less dangerous to democracy than CNN or the BBC, which are almost terrorist mouthpieces.
“I am from India and really NOT a fan of RT. It does have a lot of insidious propaganda.”
I generally don’t see that, except in their Opinion pieces. It seems to me that most of their reporting is either straight from the West, or simply repeating what Russian government is saying.
For example, I don’t see RT calling Trump a liar when he says something like “there was cheating in the 2020 election”...yet I do see that, non-stop, in the Western media. Likewise, I don’t see RT calling the Russian attack into Ukraine a “Full-Scale Invasion” (which it clearly was not), but that seems to almost be a dog-whistle in Western media, repeated in nearly every article.
I do agree with you on one thing - RT is not nearly the threat that CNN, BBC, and pretty much the rest of Western media is to freedom. When I was growing up, they at least tried to report on the corruption and lies of the Democrats, now they shut that all down.
Here’s some more proof in post #5 about him watching Russian TV “generally”
Almost every western news channel beaming into India is much worse.One knows that RT is beaming a particular view. We have more problems with those claiming to be neutral. CNN lied on Bangladeshi floods & were called out for that by the Indian foreign ministry. This is a dumb request. If you ban RT, almost all western channels can be banned on the same charge. RT's propaganda has very little to do with India, CNN & BBC have been targeting India because they don't like Modi. Much worse by any standard. Both BBC and CNN are running tickers saying Trump is lying, only a matter of time before they do similar reporting on India.
Like the BBC and CNN, RT too has a special broadcast for "South Asia", i.e India. RT really pushes a broad anti-West agenda on this. Unfortunately, thanks to the antics of Obama and his Soros funded pals, it falls on receptive ground. The Deep State is actively de-stabilising the Modi government, trying for regime change here too.
“The Deep State is actively de-stabilising the Modi government, trying for regime change here too.”
Yep, I’m aware of that - India Modi doesn’t want to be a US puppet either and that simply is NOT ACCEPTABLE to the Globalists.
I can see why the West literally HATES RT there, as the US is supposed to be the ONLY entity pushing propaganda around the world.
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