RT (formerly Russia Today) is a Russian public broadcaster and international television network.
Among the Western media, there is immense level of hysteria against RT because it serves as one column of counter-propaganda efforts against the pro-capitalist, pro-imperialist Western media.[1]
In 2010, Walter Isaacson, Chairman of the U.S. Government's Broadcasting Board of Governors, which runs Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia, called for more money to invest in the programs because "We can't allow ourselves to be out-communicated by our enemies", specifically mentioning Russia Today, Iran's Press TV and China's CGTN in the following sentence. He later explained that he actually was referring to "enemies" in Afghanistan, not the countries he mentioned.[2]
Programs
Current
- On Contact (Chris Hedges)
- Renegade Inc. (Ross Ashcroft)
- Keiser Report (Max Keiser with Stacy Herbert) from RT UK
- America's Lawyer (Mike Papantonio)
- Interview (various presenters)
- Going Underground (Afshin Rattansi) from RT UK
- News Thing (Sam Delaney)
- Redacted Tonight (Lee Camp) from RT America
- Watching the Hawks (Tyrel Ventura, Sean Stone, and Tabetha Wallace)
- SophieCo (Sophie Shevardnadze)
- CrossTalk (Peter Lavelle)
- Sputnik (George Galloway) from RT UK
- Politicking (Larry King)
- News Views Hughes
- On the Touchline with José Mourinho
- News with Rick Sanchez
- The Alex Salmond Show
- Worlds Apart with Oksana Boyko
- In Question
- Raw Take
Former
- Off the grid (Jesse Ventura)
- Capital Account (Lauren Lyster) from RT America
- Why you should care! (Tim Kirby)
- Breaking the Set (Abby Martin)
- In Context (Peter Lavelle)
- Spotlight (Aleksandr Gurnov)
- On the Money (Peter Lavelle)
- World Tomorrow (Julian Assange)
- Moscow Out (Martyn Andrews)
- Adam vs. the Man (Adam Kokesh)
- The Alyona Show (Alyona Minkovski)
- The Big Picture (Thom Hartmann) from RT America
- The News with Ed Schultz (Ed Schultz)
- How to Watch the News with Slavoj Žižek
- Larry King Now (Larry King)
Censorship
In 2022, RT and Sputnik News were censored by the European Union, as well as private firms in the USA.[3][4] This censorship has been condemned by Latin American news outlet TeleSur[5] as well as independent media inside the US.
Canada would censor RT from broadcasting by revoking their broadcast licence in March 2022.[6]
References
- ↑ Lawrence Pintak, America's media bubble, Boston Globe, 19 November 2006. (Highbeam)
- ↑ Josh Rogin, New BBG chief wants more money to combat "enemies" such as China and Russia, Foreign Policy, 5 October 2010.
- ↑ "Journalistic Unions and Lawyers: EU Censorship of Sputnik and RT is Counterproductive and Illegal" (2022-01-03). Sputnik News.
- ↑ "EU to Ban RT and Sputnik". The Liberty Beacon.
- ↑ "Telesur President Condemns Censorship of Sputnik and RT". TeleSur.
- ↑ Peter Zimonjic (2022-03-16). "CRTC bans Russian state-controlled TV channels RT, RT France from Canadian airwaves" CBC News. Retrieved 2023-06-02.