Even RT was embarrassed about this fake news video smearing Ukraine; removed from own website

[uhnope]

RT never lets such things as basic facts get in the way of crude propaganda.
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A particularly egregious example was the most recent episode of the Truthseeker, an inaptly named program seeing that its host, Daniel Bushell, never finds it. Titled “Genocide in Eastern Ukraine,” the 14-minute segment alleged that the Ukrainian government is conducting a crime on par with the 1994 Rwandan genocide (responsible for 500,000 to 1 million victims), which, for good measure, the United States enthusiastically supported. The Ukrainian government (“the most far-right wing government on the face of the Earth,” a description that far better suits the current Russian regime), whose leaders “repeat Hitler’s genocidal oath,” is “bombing wheat fields to ensure there’s famine,” a perverse claim in light of the Soviet-orchestrated Holodomor, the killing by starvation that took the lives of millions of Ukrainians in 1932 and 1933. The segment featured an interview with crank “historian” William Engdahl, a regular columnist for the virulently anti-Semitic website Veterans Today, where he has suggested that terrorist bombings in Russia earlier this year were conducted by Israel in retribution “for Putin’s role in winning Obama away from war against Syria last fall and openly seeking a diplomatic resolution of the Iran nuclear problem.”

Such ravings are par for the course on RT, but what happened afterwards surprised observers who have grown accustomed to the network’s practice of throwing out an endless stream of indefensible allegations in hopes that some of them will stick in the media ecosystem. Two days after the program aired, RT announced via Twitter that it had removed the episode from its website due to “uncorroborated info.” If this were to be the new standard by which RT determines what material to air, it would have no choice but to shut down altogether.

http://time.com/3015512/inside-the-bizarro-world-of-russia-today/

Please note--no endorsement of youtube channel that is running this video (I know nothing about it; it seems heavily CT).

[MattSh]

1. Well, at least RT corrects mistakes...

unlike US media, who lie with impunity and when they are caught lying, lie some more.

[snappyturtle]

3. True. I wonder what in particular in the report called for its demise. The

link has removed it also. This is the second in as many days of OP reporting on news over five months old.

I went through my bookmarks looking for the videos from a different source that were posted here on DU that showed at length the horrific bombing done by the puppet Kiev gov't. bombing their fellow citizens to smithereens. I wasn't successful. Will search youtube.

[hobbit709]

2. Where are all the people that cite RT as an unbiased news source?

[MattSh]

5. 2014: The Year Propaganda Came Of Age

They're not talking about RT in this article. They're talking about the US media.

Some choice paragraphs:

The FBI claims they are certain the hackers are North Korean, but they have provided no proof of that claim. We have to trust them on their beautiful blue eyes. I think if anything defines 2014 for me, it’s the advent of incessant claims for which no proof – apparently – needs to be provided. Everything related to Ukraine over the past year carries that trait. The year of ‘beautiful blue eyes’, in other words. Never no proof, you just have to believe what your government says.

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And that truly defines 2014 for me. A level of propaganda I don’t recognize, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen before. 2014 has for me been the year of utter nonsense. To wit, it just finished in fine form with a 5% US GDP growth number, just to name one example. Really, guys? 5%? Really? With all the numbers presented lately, the negative Thanksgiving sales data – minus 11% from what I remember -, the so-so at best Christmas store numbers to date, shrinking durable goods in November and all? Plus 5%?

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We really need to question the value of higher education, if all we get for it is a generation of people so easily duped by utter blubber. What do they teach people at our universities these days? Certainly not to think for themselves, that much is clear. And then what is the use? Why spend all that time raising an entire generation of highly educated pawns, sheep and robots? I can think of some people liking that, but for society as a whole, it’s devastating if that’s all higher education is.

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There is a lot of information out there, written by people inspired by things other than monetary incentives or job security or anything like that, people who simply want to get information out that your trusted media won’t give you anymore than Goebbels’ media did in occupied Europe in the 1940s. And you don’t even have to risk your lives to access that information. All you have to do is to get off your couch.

http://www.theautomaticearth.com/2014-the-year-propaganda-came-of-age/

Seems it's not RT that's the biased source...

[hobbit709]

6. There's at least one poster here who claims that RT tells the whole truth and nothing but the truth

about Ukraine.

[Duckhunter935]

4. nothing surprises me about RT

they float many trial balloons to see what sticks. This one is so over the top they pulled it apparently but have they issued a correction? I somehow doubt it. I am sure our resident people that say RT is the perfect truth and unbiased will be along any moment to explain how this is indeed the truth and NATO or Nuland had it removed.