Crisis in Syria Looks Very Different on Satellite Channels Owned by Russia and Iran

[tabatha]

A critique of news coming from RT and PressTV versus real video coming out of Syria - with video to demonstrate the differences.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/crisis-in-syria-looks-very-different-on-satellite-channels-owned-by-russia-and-iran/?src=tp

[TheWraith]

1. No surprise. Russia Today and Press TV are state-sponsored propaganda outlets.

That's painfully obvious if you look at even a little bit of their coverage, really. Unfortunately since Russia Today loves running any nasty story they can find about the US and the west, it's found a place in the hearts of people who want to believe all that nasty shit. And they can mentally edit out the fact that Russia Today also supports and promotes birthers, deathers, the 9/11 Truth nuts, etcetera.

[riverwalker]

2. best quote

"Russia Today, a Kremlin-financed channel that finds fault with Vladimir V. Putin’s government about as often as Fox News produces exposés on the Republican Party"

[Rex]

3. Well of course it does.

Propaganda from other countries always looks somewhat different then homemade propaganda. Why would Russia NOT diss the West? We do it to them all the time. We are (afterall) still considered the Great Satan. It is called global politics and every nation in the UN plays the game.

[tabatha]

4. The difference you may not have noted

is that Western outlets have actually played video and talked to Syrians, while RT and PTV have not used video and have talked to mouthpieces and not Syrians.