Forum Post: RT.com......why do we support it.....????????
Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 27, 2011, 1:55 a.m. EST by uncertainty
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I use to be a big fan of rt.com (former Russia Today based out of the former Soviet Union) but having followed them the last month or so its so obvious that Putin and his Cronies own it. Other organizations have reported like 100,000 protesting in Russia but if you check rt.com you dont find any story.
Just check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)#Controversies_and_criticisms
So why do we support it, if it just gives good reporting to ows?
Think about this, maybe they give good reporting to ows in the US since Putin and his putsch want it to.....
Are we actually supporting rt.com? If we are, then we're idiots. Between this and the Mumia headline earlier this month I'm starting to get pissed off at whoever's responsible for managing and accepting endorsements. RT.com has floated conspiracy theories about Osama's death, flirts with Alex Jones, tried to snowjob the war in South Ossetia, and that's just the concrete stuff that's easy to point out.
If we want credibility, we need to see to it that we have nothing to do with groups like this.
Yeah because the people that post on this site are the leaders. The people that run this site, don't run Occupy Wall Street. OWS is a people powered movement and it changes with every group of people that show up.
Overall to point out corruption and try to stop it peacefully.
I'm asking because even though most of the stuff on here is user-generated and half of it is crap, the news articles that get put up here seem to be considered de facto OWS press releases. If enough others consider them as such, and we're including material or statements from rt.com in those articles, then there's going to be a serious problem.