Friday, October 6, 2017

RT America Under Threat

This is ridiculous.
The editor-in-chief of Russia Today [...] said on Thursday that American members of its staff are quitting in their "masses" because of security concerns, appearing to suggest they were at threat of U.S. law enforcement action.

Margarita Simonyan, the head of the news site, told a parliamentary hearing on Thursday that its staff on American soil "fear for their security."

It has become so tough for the news site to operate in the U.S. that "it's hard for us now even to find a stringer in the USA," Simonyan said.

[...]

The U.S. Justice Department has ordered that RT and Sputnuik News, another news organization with ties to the Russian government, are "obligated to register" under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA. The law seeks to ensure that foreign organizations that play a role in influencing American public opinion give detailed information about their operations and funding to U.S. authorities.

[...]

[Simonyan] complained that the BBC and Al-Jazeera had not been required to register under FARA, as they are both state-funded channels, from Britain and Qatar respectively.

  CNBC
No shit.
In January, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said that the Kremlin used media outlets such as RT and Sputnik to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election, possibly in favor of Trump.
And what about Fox News, then?!

RT and Sputnik hire American reporters and air shows such as Larry King. We never mature and become rational. Never.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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