Russia Today
Russia Today or RT is an international 24-hour English-language TV station and media outlet headquartered in Russia. It was established in 2005 by the Russian government-owned RIA Novosti as "a sort of Russia's BBC".[1] After the BBC, RT is the most popular foreign news source in the United States. RT "has a daily audience 6.5 times bigger" than the next-most-popular foreign news source, al-Jazeera.[2]
Russia Today was established and is run by Russian oligarchs beholden to the Russian government. Its reporting is generally accurate but biased in favor of the Kremlin. The network claims impartiality.
The first chief editor of RT was Margarita Simonyan, who was appointed to that position at the age of 25. During the 2011 pro-democracy demonstrations in Russia, Simonyan tweeted that the older leaders of the demonstrations, whom she blamed for "chaos and rioting", should "burn in hell".[3][4][5]
Criticism
- Idrees Ahmad, "Russia Today and the post-truth virus", Pulse Media, December 15, 2016. (Includes criticism of Eva Bartlett)
Resources and articles
Related Sourcewatch
- Patrick Henningsen - contributor
Select Shows
- On Contact (Chris Hedges)
- Keiser Report (Max Keiser with Stacy Herbert) from RT UK
- Watching the Hawks (Tyrel Ventura, Sean Stone, and Tabetha Wallace)
- Sputnik (George Galloway) from RT UK
- CrossTalk (Peter Lavelle)
Select Former Shows
- Off the grid (Jesse Ventura)
- Breaking the Set (Abby Martin)
- Spotlight (Aleksandr Gurnov)
- World Tomorrow (Julian Assange)
- Adam vs. the Man (Adam Kokesh)
- The Alyona Show (Alyona Minkovski)
Commentator
