This is what propaganda looks like: RT reporting radically different on russian and US-corruption.

[DetlefK]

https://www.rt.com/usa/358197-clinton-emails-foundation-presidents/
https://www.rt.com/politics/357658-pulp-fiction--opposition-figure/

1. If you like the facts, give the reader a comprehensive summary at the beginning.
If you don't like the facts, give the reader a vague opening-line and the summary at the very end of the article.

2. If you like the facts, investigations of other journalists are described in neutral to positive tone.
If you don't like the facts, investigations of other journalists get the caveat that the are "tenuous" and actually not real investigations.

3. If you like the facts, stick to the narrow story and do not go beyond. Do not present the larger picture. Do not mention further examples where the scandal turned out to be a nothingburger.
If you don't like the facts, list the scandals and the many instances in which the scandals turned out to be a nothingburger.

4. If you want to kick it up a notch, add information that is absolutely and entirely irrelevant to the story but triggers the desired emotional reaction in the reader.

5. If you want the reader to focus, structure the article into few large paragraphs that present the information efficiently.
If you want the reader to get agitated and nervous, structure the article into many tiny paragraphs that interrupt his flow of reading and present many small snippets of information that he has to piece together before he can understand the text.



Let's look at the example at hand:
1. The article on Yashin has the summary that the allegations don't have much weight right at the beginning. The article about Clinton has the summary that nothing illegal happened at the very end.
2. The article on Clinton mentions Politico as a trustworthy news-source. The article on Yashin does not mention news-sources and emphasises how it's just a collection of journalistic investigations.
3. The article about Clinton does not mention that none of the scandals turned out to be true. The article about Yashin gives a long list of counter-examples where corruption-allegations were never proven.
4. The article about Yashin has a straight structure. The article about Clinton is sprinkled with Tweets that allege that the Clintons are enriching themselves at taxpayer-cost, that they have ties to a pedophile, that there is some other scandal, how they are corrupt Big Money-insiders.
5. Just look at them.




Two possible explanations:
- RT is writing propaganda.
- Innocent coincidence and incompetence that just happens over and over and over again.

[Separation]

1. RT is propaganda?! Who knew?

Its funny watching their news broadcasts sometimes. Its like Putin is controlling everything that comes out of the reporters mouth. However, some of their documentaries are good every once in a while.

[DetlefK]

2. May aim was to collect methods how to recognize propaganda.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. So you are saying that politico is a regressive left propaganda outlet?

Politico headline:
Bill Clinton aides used tax dollars to subsidize foundation, private email support
Program for ex-presidents paid salaries and benefits to Clinton aides at the center of controversies


Rt headline:
US taxpayers funded Clinton’s private email servers through ‘Former Presidents Act’


If anything RT's headline is less inflammatory. The article content is about the same as it is based on the politico article.

[emulatorloo]

4. Point of thread: dif of how RT covers US corruption vs RT covers Russian corruption

The Politico isn't relevant to a discussion about how RT spins Russian alleged corruption versus how they spin alleged US corruption

Politico is a fascinating case study of seemingly objective political media that almost always smears Dems with baseless innuendo. Worth its own thread

[LanternWaste]

6. You supplied us with an accurate example of the hobgoblins of little minds...

You supplied us with an accurate example of the hobgoblins of little minds...

[Blue_Tires]

5. kick

funny how some certain DUers aren't withing 20 miles of this thread