What's your opinion of RT America shutting down?

[llorando]

I'm going to miss Redacted tonight, The World According to Jesse and a few other programs.

[abc3643]

RT was always just a Russian Kremlin propaganda outlet.
Don't worry, there are still some Kremlin propaganda outlets in America.

Google "Radio Sputnik".

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/03/07/radio-sputnik-wzhf/

TITLE: The tiny radio station broadcasting Russian propaganda in D. C.
SUBTITLE: How the Kremlin found a middleman who found a Beltway home for Radio Sputnik, known for spreading Russian spin.
By Paul Farhi
Yesterday [07 MAR 2022] at 8:19 a. m. EST

For a few seconds every hour, WZHF-AM interrupts its round-the-clock schedule of talk to air a curious disclaimer: “This radio programming is distributed by RM Broadcasting on behalf of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency, Moscow, Russia. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, D. C.”

The cryptic notification masks a larger story. WZHF, a former Spanish-language station 11 miles east of the White House in Maryland’s Capitol Heights, is the flagship of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s effort to harness America’s radio airwaves to sell the Kremlin’s point of view. Despite periodic legal and political challenges, and the imposition of sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, the station has stayed on the air, broadcasting its Kremlin-approved message.

The station at 1390 AM is one of only five outlets in the United States that air English-language broadcasts of “Radio Sputnik,” produced in Moscow and Washington under the Russian government’s supervision.

Sputnik is the radio and digital arm of Rossiya Segodnya (Russia Today), the same Kremlin-controlled media agency that directs RT and RT America, the better-known TV and digital media operations founded by Putin’s regime in 2005.
But while American distributors and European governments have banned RT since Russia’s attack on Ukraine, leading to the collapse of RT’s American operations on Thursday, WZHF is still offering Sputnik’s content to Beltway listeners.
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[abc3643]

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW:
The Kremlin itself is shutting down free speech all over Russia as I type.
They are giving 15-year prison sentences to anyone speaking "lies" (in other words, the truth) about the war.

[abc3643]

https://www.thewrap.com/cnn-russia-censorship-law/

A new law passed by the Russian parliament bans the distribution of “false news” about military operations in Ukraine
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Earlier on Friday, Russia’s parliament unanimously passed a law banning fake news — or news that they don’t agree with and not approved by Moscow — with a punishment of up to 15 years in prison. The law targets specifically information about the distribution of “false news” about military operations in Ukraine.

The censorship legislation has forced some of the last independent Russian media to shut down, including the TV station Dozhd and the radio station Ekho Moskvy, and other sites have either been blocked or access to social media networks appears to have been slowed down in the country.

[abc3643]

www.wired.com/story/russia-ukraine-social-media/
TITLE: Russia Blocks Facebook and Twitter in a Propaganda Standoff
SUBTITLE: The Kremlin’s latest escalation shows the stark choices ahead if US platforms want to keep operating in Russia.

MORGAN MEAKER
BUSINESS
MAR 4, 2022 3:13 PM

RUSSIA’S GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED on Friday that it has blocked Facebook. Within hours, Twitter appeared to have been blocked as well. The moves are a major escalation in a standoff between Big Tech and the Kremlin that has been brewing since the invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
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[TheBigWhistle]

Never felt the need to go to a Russian state controlled network for anything. Won't miss it a bit.

[llorando]

Jess Ventra stated a few years ago, is free and has 100% control over what and how he reports.

[TheBigWhistle]

Don't be so naive. It's purpose was to spread pro Russian propaganda and conspiracy theories. Good riddance.

[genericname85]

well obviously they're gonna indoctrinate you with anti russia propaganda. they can't have a tv station showing you their side of the story, cause then you'll question the propaganda.

if you see the propaganda of both sides, you'll have a different view than someone who just sees one sides propaganda. so obviously they wanna shield you from being exposed to the other side. cause they want people to be angry at russia so they can legitimate war action against russia.

[normalice]

It is Russian propaganda that should have been shut down the instant Russia invade Crimea and thus exposed themselves to be murderous enemies of the free world.

[SlightlyEccentric]

That's a funny way of calling yourself a fascist who supports censorship

[normalice]

Not in real life. In real life its a reasonable way of saying I'm not in favor of giving political scammers an audience.

[jshm2]

Only temporarily.

America doesn't like others doing to countries what it's been doing for years.

[DryGermanGuy]

These fud-mongers are just the inverted equivalent of right-wing fringe channels like Newsmax/OAN. No loss here.

[DarkWinterNights]

Now we just get to listen to the American version. Good thing our news media is the pinnacle of truth and justice!

[legalboxers]

is there anything wrong with any other news source?

[llorando]

Nothing, there are lots of progressive media outlets I enjoy watching. But MSM like FOX, CNN and MSNBC are corrupt and push the narrative of MIC and wealthy elite. Ed Schultz for example, was fired from MSMBC for a combination of calling out Obama and the TPP and his willing ness to cover Sanders Campaign.
https://youtu.be/1P5W8OR8wfo?t=10

[legalboxers]

@llorando Ed Sultz also worked for RT and he's dead now...

[llorando]

Indeed he did. Still doesn't change the fact he was fired not long after speaking out against the TPP.

[abc3643]

MIC?

[llorando]

@abc3643 Military industrial complex.

[abc3643]

OK, thanks.

TPP? Trans-Pacific Partnership?

[llorando]

@abc3643 Yes

[monorprise]

Its not a good thing, to be closed off from the other side.

[MCheetah]

Really? I don't pay attention to mainstream news outlets. I forgot they even existed!

[Jamie05rhs]

They had it coming. I was actually surprised that the FCC allowed them on the air in the first place back in the late '00s. I'm pretty sure the Chinese channel is still on, though.

[VikingWarLord]

The Nazis loves to CENSOR FREE SPEECH
These ignorant fools are Hitler in the flesh, banning freedom of speech and freedom of the PRESS

[front2back]

Ideally we can get all the other major propaganda distribution cent-, I mean, News Networks to shut down.
Put fluffy cat videos on the TV instead.

[DWornock]

The government hates for people to learn the truth.

[DiegoO]

Fuck politicians, they always get to fuck up on everything.

[ChefPapiChulo]

what a bunch of misinformed idiots on this question thats for sure.

[Still-alive]

good riddance to that trash

[NYCQuestions1976]

Road & Track had a channel? 🤔

[OddBeMe]

I'm not for censorship. Even if its fake news.

[ChefPapiChulo]

you dont stand for anything. you're a fake and a troll.

[OddBeMe]

How did I piss you off again?
You’re not important enough to remember

[ChefPapiChulo]

says more about you then it does me pal. Psychopath.

[OddBeMe]

Least I’m not shirtless in my profile pic. Looks like you’re trying to groom little boys

[ChefPapiChulo]

No your picture is of Frankenstein with that weirdly shaped head.

[Anonymous]

It was russian propaganda, so who cares.

[FunkyMonkee]

What is it?

[humanearth]

Never heard of them