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Related: About this forumPutin TV (Russia Today) Airs Fake Footage that They Know Is Fake
The Kremlin via RT take videos they know are fake and runs them, citing the authority of the person who said they were fake without mentioning that he had debunked them! Just a reminder of the gross lies that RT tries to pass off daily. RT is maybe worse than FOX news--it's like a KKK TV reporting on lynchings and blaming the NAACP
http://gawker.com/russia-today-airs-fake-footage-of-rebels-using-sarin-ga-1342865358
Russia Today is a self-described news channel that happens to be owned and operated by the Russian government, and therefore serves as a reliable outlet for whatever Russian President Vladimir Putin would like you to believe is news. It tends to get some measure of credibility among American bloggers, largely by booking said bloggers on its programs (including, regrettably, the editor of this web site, but just once and hes sorry). Which is why its somewhat ironic that RT has twisted the generally reliable work of Syria-blogger Brown Moses to fuel Putins conspiracy theory that Syrian rebels are behind the sarin gas attack that the Assad regime unleashed on civilians last month.
Yesterday, RT aired footage purporting to show Syrian rebels initiating the gas attack, using the fact that the videos had been posted by Brown Moseswhom RT described as a prominent Syria blogger who had been focusing on the Syrian conflict for the last couple of years, analyzing claims and counterclaimsas a peg. The only problem: the footage was fabricated, and Mosesin reality an Englishman named Eliot Higginshad openly doubted their authenticity, right there on his blog.
On Monday, Higgins linked to several videos originally uploaded to LiveLeak that appear to indicate that Liwa al-Islam, a Syrian rebel group, had a hand in the August 21 poison gas attack in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. However, Higgins noted several discrepancies that suggested the footage was faked.
The men in the video claim to be Liwa al-Islam, and the many flags in the video are also marked Liwa al-Islam ... but theres a lot about it that seems dubious. First of all the video quality is awful, so it's very difficult to make out a lot of details. Its also rather odd it's so dark when August 21st was a full moon, and there's no lights in the city visible.
And then, for some reason, RT credulously aired the same videos, minus the debunking, using the fact that Higgins had posted them to suggest that they are in fact credible. Today Higgins reproduced the transcript from Wednesday broadcast seen above. One anchor, Paul Scott, says:
To which Higgins answers: I do not support Russia Today's use of the credibility of my work to prop up videos I consider to be highly dubious.
Yesterday, RT aired footage purporting to show Syrian rebels initiating the gas attack, using the fact that the videos had been posted by Brown Moseswhom RT described as a prominent Syria blogger who had been focusing on the Syrian conflict for the last couple of years, analyzing claims and counterclaimsas a peg. The only problem: the footage was fabricated, and Mosesin reality an Englishman named Eliot Higginshad openly doubted their authenticity, right there on his blog.
On Monday, Higgins linked to several videos originally uploaded to LiveLeak that appear to indicate that Liwa al-Islam, a Syrian rebel group, had a hand in the August 21 poison gas attack in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. However, Higgins noted several discrepancies that suggested the footage was faked.
The men in the video claim to be Liwa al-Islam, and the many flags in the video are also marked Liwa al-Islam ... but theres a lot about it that seems dubious. First of all the video quality is awful, so it's very difficult to make out a lot of details. Its also rather odd it's so dark when August 21st was a full moon, and there's no lights in the city visible.
And then, for some reason, RT credulously aired the same videos, minus the debunking, using the fact that Higgins had posted them to suggest that they are in fact credible. Today Higgins reproduced the transcript from Wednesday broadcast seen above. One anchor, Paul Scott, says:
It is interesting now that [Higgins] has posted a video on this blog that suggests that it actually could be the Syrian Opposition that had been using these chemical weapons. It represent a slight shift in focus from what the narrative that the blog has been taking in recent weeks.
To which Higgins answers: I do not support Russia Today's use of the credibility of my work to prop up videos I consider to be highly dubious.
http://gawker.com/russia-today-airs-fake-footage-of-rebels-using-sarin-ga-1342865358
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Putin TV (Russia Today) Airs Fake Footage that They Know Is Fake (Original Post)
uhnope
Jun 2014
OP
They should be more like our own news channels, where there is nothing fake or govt sponsored. n/t
jtuck004
Jun 2014
#1
Amen! I still marvel at "our" networks' remarkably balanced coverage of things like
RufusTFirefly
Jun 2014
#2
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)1. They should be more like our own news channels, where there is nothing fake or govt sponsored. n/t
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)2. Amen! I still marvel at "our" networks' remarkably balanced coverage of things like
- the buildup to the illegal Iraq invasion in 2003
- the health care debate
- the true fiscal condition of Social Security
- the real reason the Post Office is having financial troubles
and, of course, - Net Neutrality
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)3. USA! USA! USA!, etc. n/t
nilesobek
(1,423 posts)4. "My propaganda is better than your propaganda."
Two little kids on the playground.
imthevicar
(811 posts)5. I'm Truely Sorry,
That you didn't get the war you wanted.
Response to imthevicar (Reply #5)
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rpannier
(24,338 posts)6. RT the Bringing you Fox style news w/o O' Reilly or Hannity
While there are a few things I like about RT (like they actually let guests speak). For the most part it's nothing more than Putin-hearting propaganda
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)7. It seems childish the deflection you get from some people on DU
(no names mentioned of course) that if another country does it, it's ok because the US is a big bad evil empire. Yes, we make mistakes. There's no doubt about that. The news in the US is corporate driven. At least we (most of us) can see that. If RT does it, well that's just fucking fine and dandy because god forbid we'd actually criticize a non-US media source for lying through their teeth.