Why does "RT" seem like an American network?

[Filthy Keynes]

Max Keiser et al... it doesn't "feel" like a Russian network. So why does it seem like an American network.

[LuckyStrike]

Max Keiser et al... it doesn't "feel" like a Russian network. So why does it seem like an American network.


That sounds like an insult.

I think RT is far and away the best "mainstream" news org at least on tv.

[Apparition]

I think they're trying simultaneously to appeal to a US audience while addressing international news and issues.

[Rebel Yarr]

"Power vacuum opportunity"

[Hatha Sunahara]

Max Keiser shows up regularly on Press TV, which is Iran's news agency. RT is modeled after USA Today.

Russia today seems 'mainstream' because they have learned how to grease the propaganda, like the American MSM, so it goes down without a peep. This is in contrast to what the Soviet media was. Greasing the propaganda makes it far more effective. I must admit that the Russians have an interesting spin on things.

Surely you remember the joke about how 'There is no Isvestia (news) in Pravda; and no Pravda (truth) in Izvestia.' Many of us grew up believing that the Soviet Union was the epitome of a totalitarian state. It's ironic now that we're adopting that view about our own regime.

Hatha

[Filthy Keynes]

Max Keiser et al... it doesn't "feel" like a Russian network. So why does it seem like an American network.


That sounds like an insult.

I think RT is far and away the best "mainstream" news org at least on tv.


The first Max Keiser video I watched (first one, mind you) he was talking about how he had such great HOPES for Obama and BELIEVED in Obama etc etc etc... but it was all dashed.

Well... anyone who ever had HOPES for Obama was a little late to the party. Not saying anything wrong with what he is saying TODAY, but dang... how could he have been deceived for so long before he "woke up". But... then again... perhaps he knew all along that Obama was BushClintonBushReaganNixon and he was just trying to "appease the mainstream" in order not to seem like a kook.

[Glass]

a lot of these guys decry the system as broke while seeming to believe the system will somehow start working again and this will fix the things that are wrong. I don't blame them too much because mainstream type media sources can allow only so much to be talked about. No matter where they are . Some of the things that have been done are so out there beyond the moral fringe it's difficult to believe people could do such things.... but they do.

Max definately pushes the boundaries on both RT and his saturday FM radio show. The saturday show always amuses me because it is a wrap up of the current weeks discussions and a preview of what he is going to be talking about in the coming week and it seems to be delivered through the viewpoint of one or maybe two bottles of wine. He's either exhausted or slightly inebriated. Sometimes I'm surprised to find him on air the following week to be honest. I'm glad he is though.