Urban v's the Commentariat
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weepiper
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Riiight. Because 4 children getting killed by naval gunshells from a hostile occupying force isn't at all political
Theisticle
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Oh really? I've always found the NS quite nauseating. Wasn't too long ago, George Eaton was spunking his trousers over Labour's horrendous welfare proposals for young people.
DaveCinzano
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Rural
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But their deaths r political. And their lives were cheap. Isn't this relevant? What's the point of mentioning them otherwise?
captainmission
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Being such an impartially BBC journalist i'm sure she made the same criticism of Israel.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
The clue being in the wording of the Webb's chosen title for their organ; the new statesman
Lo Siento.
Second As Farce
Paul Mason veers between good stuff and total bollocks, doesn't he?
rekil
to menny cranks
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He's right that drawing equivalence between a proper loon outlet like RT with the BBC is wrong. I think someone on here, butchers probably, posted something about this fairly recently. Mason is going in pretty hard on O'Hagan. PD #solidarity detachment on standby.
Lo Siento.
Second As Farce
I don't think there's enough in Ellie's original statement to just call "rubbish", the BBC isn't neutral.
rekil
to menny cranks
He's saying the BBC has its ideology but can't be compared with RT. I don't think O'Hagan even necessarily disagrees with him. He wouldn't be this much of a cunt with LP or Molly.
butchersapron
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I think that he was probably doing an immediate response to her I'm not defending rt but... defence of rt
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Favelado
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el-ahrairah
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is there a good analysis of RT anywhere? i keep getting people posting RT stuff uncritically and i wondered if there was something i could pass them to indicate the dodginess of the source.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Yup. Total partiality. It "cheapens" dead kids to shroud their coffins with HAMAS flags, but not dead Israelis with the state of Israel's flag.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Bear in mind that in the minds (or at least what passes for them after editorial prejudice is asserted), Palestinians and Israelis are equal in their suffering, and one Palestinian "rocket" is so powerful that it needs to be replied to with a thousand Israeli rockets.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Being such an impartially BBC journalist i'm sure she made the same criticism of Israel.
Fat Benny is used to using the flag-shrouded corpses of others to further his political career. Most of his early progress was made off the back of his deceased "military hero" brother.
Bakunin
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That would be Jonathon Netanyahu, killed while leading the commando raid on Entebbe in the late 1970's if I remember rightly.
I bet you remember what automatic weapons they were using.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Yup.
The Pale King
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*adopts Gore Vidal voice* It's because the stakes are so small...
Rural
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https://blogs.state.gov/stories/2014/04/29/russia-today-s-disinformation-campaign
http://www.utne.com/media/conspirac...y-anti-american-propaganda.aspx#axzz36vOWaaqt
Here r 2 links I found critical of RT, tho 1st is on us state blog but written by a past editor of time, so Idk. Ikwym about ppl treating rt like it's the absolute unquestionable truth cos it's a different pov to msm in the west. I don't think it's as simple as that.
el-ahrairah
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There is very good stuff on RT, their coverage of even minor protests is quite comprehensive. Once your aware that their sole editorial purpose is to embarrass and highlight discontent in Western Europe. It's a propaganda channel the same as all news channels are, don't think it's any better or worse than the rest ...it is more enjoyable though!
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