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| scitops | Posted: Feb 24, 2011 - 22:58 |
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 Level: 4 CS Original | Just asking how it compares to something like Russia Today. | |||||
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| Ez | Posted: Feb 24, 2011 - 23:14 |
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 Level: 3 CS Original | I dont think its too bad, it may be slightly biased when reporting on the Israel-Palestine conflict or the war in Afghanistan/Iraq but I wouldn't say it compares to Russia Today. | |||||
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| Wolf Bird | Posted: Feb 25, 2011 - 07:15 |
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 I shoot you dead. Level: 9 CS Original | I sometimes look at Al-Jazeera English. It's nothing like Russia today, which is a pile of shit. | |||||
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| Ez | Posted: Feb 25, 2011 - 07:18 |
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Level: 3 CS Original | Russia Today could possibly be compared to something like Iran's PressTV which is state controlled or one of China's state controlled media. Al Jazeera is privately owned. | |||||
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| Wolf Bird | Posted: Feb 25, 2011 - 07:26 |
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I shoot you dead. Level: 9 CS Original | ^You know what's strange? A lot of the far-right vehemently anti-Obama crowd claims he and the Democrats control the so-called mainstream media. Yet a lot of those same people seem to think Russia Today is a good source of information, which is a REAL piece of state-owned media. A tad ironic, eh? | |||||
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| Agent Matt | Posted: Feb 25, 2011 - 07:28 |
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 Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | Clearly Obama controls the mainstream media, which is why the tea parties got (and continue to get) so much press. | |||||
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| Olek_L | Posted: Feb 25, 2011 - 16:11 |
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 Level: 0 CS Original | WolfBird: some of them, at least in my country, think of Russia (along with Belarus) as one of the last independent countries in the world. | |||||
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| Agent Matt | Posted: Feb 25, 2011 - 16:36 |
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Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | Does independent mean dirt poor there? | |||||
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| Wolf Bird | Posted: Feb 25, 2011 - 16:40 |
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I shoot you dead. Level: 9 CS Original | @Olek-L Lol, whaaaa? The vehemently anti-Obama crowd in Poland (that's where you live, right?) really thinks that? | |||||
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| Olek_L | Posted: Feb 25, 2011 - 17:01 |
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Level: 0 CS Original | @Matt: For them, independent does mean: not going along with dirty, rotten, bankrupt and morally corrupt EU and USA. And sometimes also: not being overrun by Jews (apparently Poland is, for some of them). @WolfBird: Yes, there are people who think that Russia is some kind of lastion bastion, free of American influence. Being anti-Obama (considering him as a puppet) is just a part of being vehemetly Anti-American. | |||||
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| Ez | Posted: Feb 25, 2011 - 17:35 |
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Level: 3 CS Original | I saw some guy talking about protests in Iran the other day (he didnt sound like an Iranian) and he said Iran's theocratic regime was fighting CIA sponsored protestors doing the work of "globalisers" and "elites". | |||||
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| Agent Matt | Posted: Feb 25, 2011 - 18:25 |
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Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | @Olek_L, Just out of curiosity, what makes the EU and the USA morally corrupt in their eyes? | |||||
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| Olek_L | Posted: Feb 26, 2011 - 16:01 |
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Level: 0 CS Original | @Matt: Legal gay marriages, abortion and euthanasia; abandonment of traditional (some would add "christian") values, multiculturalism, political correctness, legal drugs, legal prostitution (technically it's not illegal in Poland, in fact), the worship of money, and so on... | |||||
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