Friday, October 20, 2017

RT — NGO publishes names of 2,300+ RT guests, labels them ‘useful idiots who undermine Western democracy


Neo-McCarthyism flourishes.
An NGO called the European Values Think-Tank has published a report on RT featuring an extensive list of US and European public figures who have been accused of “undermining western democracy” just by appearing in RT shows.

The report, claiming to be an “overview of RT’s editorial strategy and evidence of impact,” comes with an Excel list of 2,327 people who have appeared on RT over the last four years. The names are carefully arranged in seven categories, including US politicians, UK politicians, European politicians and so on, and are arranged in alphabetical order. The list mentions the shows the guests appeared on, the total number of their appearances, and gives hyperlinks to all the relevant episodes.

The report states that appearing on the network is counterproductive and makes the guest a “useful idiot” to a “hostile foreign power.”Expressing one’s opinion on RT is considered by the NGO as equivalent to “complicity with the Russian propaganda machine.”
Although the list looks like a really thorough effort at cataloguing all of the RT guests, it’s got a number of strikingly weird blunders. For example, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is there, but only the link attached leads to a satirical show featuring someone impersonating him. Meanwhile, US Senator John McCain’s daughter is mistaken for the senator himself and “Politicking with Larry King” is unexpectedly referred to as “Politicking with Larry David.
The report generally claims that RT is “an instrument of hostile foreign influence,” which has the sole purpose of “undermining public confidence in the viability of liberal democracy.”
It repeatedly discourages any public figures from potentially appearing on any of RT’s shows in the future, as those on the list are accused of boosting RT’s “credibility as a legitimate news network.”
De facto censorship instead of de jure.

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NGO publishes names of 2,300+ RT guests, labels them ‘useful idiots who undermine Western democracy

See also
A new report by a US-funded Czech think tank that targeted RT’s on-air guests is an attempt to stifle any views that go outside the accepted US neocon foreign policy of interventionism, Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute, told RT.
‘Report listing RT’s guests is designed to intimidate'

10 comments:

Kaivey said...

I found a new site yesterday which seemed to be linked to New Eastern Outlook. Everything in it was fantastic and I put an article out here from it. It had another article I might put out on Western imperialism. With all the stuff I've read all my life, all written by Western authors, it totally fitted in with it. It was the truth to me. There was one book that I had read that wasn't written by a westerner: when I was 20 years old I read Gaddafi's Green book which was excellent. It totally explained how the West installs puppet regimes around the world to exploit their countries resources. BUT I remember reading in the MSM that Gaddafi's Green Book was propaganda. Ha Ha!

I'm watching a film right now made by the Right (I haven't seen any left winners in it yet) where the people are saying that now they know how much they have been lied to by the government they are now even questioning WW1 and WW2, and I'm doing the same. I'm halfway through the film, if its okay I will put it it later.

Tom Hickey said...

where the people are saying that now they know how much they have been lied to by the government they are now even questioning WW1 and WW2, and I'm doing the same

Both wars were presented as black and white. force of good versus forces of evil, children of the light versus children of darkness. An enemy is always demonized. Popular belief continues in that vein. Same in the case of other wars. The victors get to write the history, although that is not completely the case. Japan presents its own picture of WWII in teaching history, for example.

The actual history reveals a different picture. Both wars were the result of great power competition leading to conflict, where "great powers" reduces to "ruling elites. Gen., Smedley Butler sums it up in "War Is A Racket" (1935).

Historical causality is difficult to tease out for many reasons, but the black and white picture is revealed as false, basically the result of bias amplified by propaganda.

Kaivey said...

They say good always wins in the end, what really is that the winners rewrite history.

Matt Franko said...

"They say good always wins in the end"

Where does it say that?????

Matt Franko said...

Maybe the warrior class thinks you guys have it all wrong????

Ever think of that???

Tom Hickey said...

"They say good always wins in the end"

Where does it say that?????


“The good always wins,” the Pope said, “even if at times it can appear weak and hidden.”

Pope Francis: the good always wins

The ancient quote is from the Upanishads and is slightly different.

"Truth alone triumphs" (satyameva jayate) — Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.6

Matt Franko said...

Oh yeah the pope has a clue....

Matt Franko said...

So you think that if all of a sudden these morons get half a clue and realize at least we're not out of munnie that the current US heroin death factory is going to shut down immediately?

Matt Franko said...

No more Harvey Weinsteins abusing young females if these morons get a clue?

Matt Franko said...

War bad, Weinstein ok?