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Originally Posted by CAMOKAT
what stories are those?
besides, all media is bias one way or another, but come on.. some things are FACTS not someboby's opinion.
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Firstly..I am not arguing with your larger premise so calm down.
However, I do watch Russia Today because I like to try to get news from as many sources as possible. I also on occasion watch that English language service of Aljazeera to see their side of things.
So, I haven't just come to Russia Today during this current crisis and it isn't something I have only now noticed. I think Russia Today is generally a good source for finding out stories about Eastern Europe that might not generally get much play outside of the region. For example, when the last batch of Eastern European countries joined the EU it was interesting to see the reports coming from those countries rather than reports about them from Western media.
However, whenever the stories about about the Russian government they never balance the story and they very rarely ever interview somebody that disagrees with a policy too strongly.
Now, with this conflict, I went over to watch Russia Today and all they had playing in a loop was a giant red 'GENOCIDE'. There was no exploration of the story from the other side. It was just fact that Russia was right and there was no other side at all.
I take your point that Fox does mostly the same thing with any USA conflicts. However, that doesn't make either 'news' station fair or balanced.
Russia Today was fun to watch on the night Russia won Eurovision though. I guess I didn't know they took it that seriously and that was fun to watch the reactions.