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Russia Today Anchor Quits Live On Air Over "Whitewashed" Coverage Of Putin
Presented with little comment, suffice to add former Washington DC RT correspondent Liz Wahl's comments that "personally she cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian government that whitewashes the action of Putin..." At least RT was correct when it said yesterday that "Contrary to the popular opinion, RT doesn't beat its journalists into submission, and they are free to express their own opinions, not just in private but on the air." One wonders if Ms. Wahl's next stop will be MSNBC, FOX or CNN, where the truly unbiased coverage can be found.
Today's drama takes to a entirely new level the statement voiced by another RT presenter who also denounced as "wrong" Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.
"I can't stress enough how strongly I am against any state intervention in a sovereign nation's affairs," Abby Martin declared in her news programme.
RT said it respected Ms Martin's views, and that she would not be reprimanded.
Ms Martin made her remarks at the end of her Breaking the Set show, broadcast from a studio in Washington.
"Just because I work here doesn't mean I don't have editorial independence," she said, adding: "What Russia did was wrong."
The outspoken presenter admitted that she did not possess in-depth knowledge of Ukraine's history or "cultural dynamics", but insisted that military intervention was not the answer.
"I will not sit here and apologise for, or defend, military aggression," she said.
RT responded as follows:
In response to the journalist's on-air statement, the Russian TV channel said: "Contrary to the popular opinion, RT doesn't beat its journalists into submission, and they are free to express their own opinions, not just in private but on the air."
The broadcaster added that it would send Ms Martin to Crimea to "give her an opportunity to make up her own mind from the epicentre of the story".
So far Ms. Martin has not taken up RT's offer to provide unbiased reporting from the "epicenter" of the story.
And now back to the US mainstream media's expansive coverage of the story of the day that it may well have been Kiev's current post-coup and US-supported acting government ordering the murder of its own civilians in an apparent provocation to escalate the regime change. Wait what?
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Liz...you ignorant slut
Ok, I've read a lot of the comments and I have noticed that MOST have been remiss in saying that they would bang her! What is this blog coming to! Ok, then I'll be the first to say I would nail her to wall. Ok, carrry on!
But, but... Putin is so awesome. He's like the coolest dictator eva!
It cracks Me up to see how everyone must impose their latest cause on others as dramatically as possible. This young thing and her cause are totally overblown.
News organizations are biased? Shocking!
Lauren Lyster is grinning like a Cheshire Cat as we speak. Nice legs too Lauren!
I always have this hunch that Jim Rickards has a thing for Lauren Lyster. Just a hunch. Am I right?
And Jim Grant .
Who didn't? Unless they had a "partner".
Give the lady more respect! I have a partner and she's never been more truthful than Lyster!! RT is missing out now!
Lyster copped out when she moved to Yajoo to tow the Z iioonist line. Now Tabbi is even been forced to suxel at the groin of the Z iionist and is movig from Rolling Stone to Huffpo/Greenwalds new Z iionsit shill show!
Zionist?
Is that filtered?
In "The Matrix," the unplugged lived in a part of the world called "Zion" deep underground.
Lyster what happened to her. Pole dancing now?
Those legzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Shes a prostitute, offer her 50 dollars and she may agree to let you inbetween those legs.
How much does it cost with oranges, whip cream, and midgets?
Presstitute.
Laren Lyster was fired right after interviewing GATA. Fishy.
I don't think so. She directly changed from RT to Yahoo.
She is smart. AEI or somebody will pay her to talk about Freedom etc. More like Fox than MSNBC.
How to give yourself a raise in 1 easy lesson. Ca-ching, ca-ching.
I'm sure she already has a sweet FRN deal wrapped up. First she'll come on as a guest to stir the pot while it's fresh and within a couple of months will be moved to a full time position. Putin can't touch her because she's an American.
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Of course she does. Hope it wasn't signed by Linda Green.
No danger there, she's probably collecting disability for writer's cramp.
They probably offered her a one year contract in exchange for the little show. But after the year is up you know, that was just unprofessional. Everyone loves treason, nobody likes a traitor. You just don't do that and expect to be employable in the US. Or any place in the world for that matter. She is dumb and done.
She reminds me of Ayn Rand.
Poisoned mind.
FUCK THAT.... She must be Barry pumped
RT then corrected itself: "send Ms Martin to Crimea" was a typo. The offer is to Siberia on a one-way ticket.
You must realize that the US has much more efficient, sophisticated and devastating methods than Siberia.
The bottom line the way I see it, she screwed her employer. Unprofessional is unprofessional, no to be trusted, very unsound girl, extremely unemployable from now on, even by McDonald's standards.
You almost make Siberia sound preferable, how F'd up is that?
...Next!
"The ultimate price that people pay, for this country"
She did not clarify which people.
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If she won't toe the party line, a job in the USSA is out of the question.
Her performance doesn't pass the smell test.
Grinding poverty in Hungaria? What about 50 million Americans on food stamps?
Give speech, get phat severance package.
How hard would it be to approach her and make her an offer she couldn't resist to come up with this bullshit?
Who gives a fuck about Americans.
Meep-meep!
What a joke. If anyone is whitewashing, it's Obama and Kerry. Imagine, the SoS representing a nation that killed, murdered really, over a million Iraqi civilians based on a phony pretext accusing Putin of the same. It's so comical that you are tempted to laugh but you can't because it is so baroque.
Russia Today may be funded by the Russian govt, but the spin is entirely NY
better she works for msnbc so she can whitewash the market.....
Maybe warn her about Mad Money. Hunny, you don't wanna go to Mad Money. Cramer is passé
Young, impressionable and idealistic. It would be fun if you could be around, watching her lose her innocence.
I have already had three or four ideas that have her losing her innocence with me.
She seems too stupid to ever find reality.
Beautifully acted, it was almost convincing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNl86BW5PVA&feature=kp
Holy smokes!
The poor girl doesn't realize that America is becoming what her Grandparents escaped, and that those poor soldiers paying the ultimate price are doing so for U.S. Oligarchs and Plutocrats and not "freedom".
Notice she says "my partner" so she's probably homo-sensual and outraged that in Russia they couldn't parade down main street in front of children dressed in lingerie with strap-on's wagging left and right.
She said 'he.' But you know, 'partner' is the PC thing to say cuz gays don't have official husband and wife titles.
She used "he" to describe her "partner" after that.
Yes and he's a military veteran who's proud to "torture" as well as heal -Only when he has to!
Thanks guys, my bad, I missed the "he".
As so few heterosexual couples get married anymore, odd how homosexuals want to co-opt the definition and petition the state to define them and their union. Counterproductive to their cause, and kind of like asking your jailer to make the bars a little sturdier.
IMO, the government should bag the term "marriage" and just make everything under the law "civil union". Keep "marriage" a religious thing, and civil unions become nothing more than a contract, which the government enforces if needed.
Not that it makes entirely too much sense to do this, but those who protest their exclusion will only protest louder if we were to do so.
That would make too much sense. But I don't think it's about "winning". How much you wanna bet that they wouldn't settle for anything less than a "full capitulation" by the "Marriage" side? Call it a hunch: Only a FULL destruction of all things "traditional" will do, is my impression.
There are certainly people like that. But there are probably an equal amount who just want equality on end-of-life decisions, inheritance, etc. I know some gay couples, and honestly, they don't give a fuck what you think or do. They mostly get married for health insurance.
How does the world look through that part of the Overton Window?
I just don't give a shit what other people do. I think that the government should be concerned with enforcing contracts / property rights and not much else. I don't think the government should be involved in social engineering in any capacity, whether I agree with it or not. What's your view?
The left jackboot politicians use the homos to justify invading the bedroom to control everyone's breeding rights, the right jackbooted politicians use abortion. The end result is the same Chinese breeding control to get rid of all opposition.
odd how homosexuals want to co-opt the definition...
Don't forget state recognized "marriage" allows spouses the same benefits afforded attorney / client relationships.
(At least that counted for something back when the US Bill of Rights were in effect.)
perhaps she said "partner" because they are not married and she's a bit long in the tooth to be calling him her "boyfriend"?
Or she has swallowed once too many times so she can't deny she has gotten to a more intimate stage in their relationship, maybe she has licked his a**H**E
Regardless she is on all fours not just for her partner but for someone else with money
She did say "he" afterwards.
My question, after listening to her "I'm so proud..." soapbox bit, is how and why she ever ended up on a "contrarian" place like RT? Was it an Entry-level job, when no one else would give her one? She sounds like she's "FOX material" and headed there next. She'll most certainly be more popular at NY media parties, where she'll be the new toast: Mazel Tov, Lehayim.
AS others here have observed, she knows which side her bagel is buttered on.
Yup. Have you noticed that she now has blonde hair (albeit with dark roots), when she used to have brown hair before.
Seems like an Extreme Makeover is going on: New views + new attitude + new image --> New Job.
Polite farewell wishes in Hungarian: Baszd meg, Kibaszott Pics!
I once had a "partner" but I ended the relationship once I figured out he was trying to fuck me....or is that what partners are supposed to do? I'm too fucking old for this shit. I don't know what words mean anymore. When I was young I wanted to be a gay young fellow until I found out I wasn't queer. I came out of college wanting to be progressive until I found out I wasn't a commie. I was brought up to be a honest hardworkng man, until I found out that I was a dupe. Fuck me.
So it's time to change whitewashing teams I guess?
"At least RT was correct when it said yesterday that "Contrary to the popular opinion, RT doesn't beat its journalists into submission, and they are free to express their own opinions, not just in private but on the air."
Bull fucking shit!
Just who's circumcised dick is Liz Wahl sucking?
Guess we can almost with certainy put RT in the FOX news garbage "fair and balanced" garbage bin.
You're either with us or you're with "the terrorists"!
Shalom Boobie
I'm sure Hannity will invite her for several interviews.
Not that I even care but you know RT is not "Russian media" when it has it's main bureaus in London, New York and Washington!
This is the most disgraceful propoganda campaign the Jewish Russian oligarchs could play given that those that have citizenship to either Russia or Ukraine are shitting on there own!
I sure as hell hope Max Keiser doesn't cash out with the "tribe" out of fear or the best bribe he's had since his Wall Street days.
Fox wants Max because his legs are so smooth and shinny.
RT sure doesn't sux as much of the Z scourge dix as the US MSM that is for sure. I will take a military presence moving into a country to stabilize it any day over a bunch of Z iionist controlled mercenaries injected into the country to bleed it slowly through murder and rape in order to create chaos. Ms. Martin lives in DC. She is as credible as any of the Z iionist controlled shills!
EG
But you must be asking yourself as everybody else is on this thread. First Abby Martin with her "Putin announcement", now this little alleged of Hungarian descent snap who isn't even old enough to remember what happened after it's fall because her family was finding safety someplace else!. How can Abby Martin spout being pro-9/11 Truth and not be a journalist with integrity that has wintessed first hand the revelations from the phone conversations taps from the DoS and today with UN foreign affairs chief and an Estonian dip?
The timing is either incredible or RT made them a deal that was too good. I could say the same for media almost anywhere else around the World that has film makers and Western banks in them.
These girls are CIA plants meant to discredit RT just when they break out the big news making the USA/EU
did you ever onder why your nazi ancestors overnight threw out their native culture for a dumbed down paganized version of another peoples culture where you deify one of those people?did your ancestors realize their own culture was sht and mine was so much better , or were they too stupid to even realize it?
I guess thats better than the Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation (wow, there's a mouthfull) cutting off the funding for RT, I guess ;-)
Meanwhile, another highly secure, heavily encrypted BitMarket was hacked and had to shut down.
http://flexcoin.com/
(Might as well piss off everyone...lol)
Can you imagine say a David Gregory quitting over the Benghazi or IRS coverup? I bet not. Real or not, I respect because this makes one wonder about how polluted the conspiracy is.
which conspiracy? She thinks she is displaying morals, but she is fucking deluded. Or she took the job at RT so she could have this moment.
<-- Lifelong dream for this moment.
<-- $$$ / 'better' opportunities / other
It's gotta be both right?
The world's been on false dichotomy overload!
The USA goons know that there is a ten second delay with all live broadcast so if they say something stupid it will never be on the air.
Similarly...if the POTUS makes a "dangerous" remark that they can use the same 10 sec delay?
And have you people considered that, by having the POTUS "fire-walled" by the Secret Service* and kept from unapproved people, it also means that the POTUS cannot have unapproved contact to them, and cannot escape his 'handlers'?
\ Will RT re-interview its Youtube staff, or will they insert a 90 sec delay before airing? As a "corporation", it seems that a company now needs these IT precautions, to prevent a 'rogue' employees from tarnishing its carefully managed brand. \sarc
I was watching when it happened. I then went over to her twitter page to see if she had any further comment. So far, no comment. However, what I did find amusing was watching her number of followers expand by the second. When I first looked, she had roughly 2850 followers. She is now at 4,040 and rising fast.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10677370/Ukrain...
Our correspondent, Damien McElroy, has spoken to the doctor at the centre of the claims that snipers that shot people in Kiev were hired by Maidan leaders:
Olga Bogomolets said she had not told Mr Paet that policemen and protesters had been killed in the same manner.
"Myself I saw only protesters. I do not know the type of wounds suffered by military people," she told The Telegraph. "I have no access to those people."
But she said she had asked for a full forensic criminal investigation into the deaths that occurred in the Maidan. "No one who just sees the wounds when treating the victims can make a determination about the type of weapons. I hope international experts and Ukrainian investigators will make a determination of what type of weapons, who was involved in the killings and how it was done. I have no data to prove anything.
"I was a doctor helping to save people on the square. There were 15 people killed on the first day by snipers. They were shot directly to the heart, brain and arteries. There were more than 40 the next day, 12 of them died in my arms.
"Our nation has to ask the question who were the killers, who asked them to come to Ukraine. We need good answers on the basis of expertise."
Mr Paet's assertion that an opposition figure was behind the Maidan massacre was not one she could share.
"I think you can only say something like this on the basis of fact," she said. "Its not correct and its not good to do this. It should be based on fact."
She said the new government in Kiev had assured her a criminal investigation had begun but that she had not direct contact with it so far.
"They told me they have begun a criminal process and if they say that I believe them. The police have not given me any information on it."
Never let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory ;-)
I'm sure she has been paid a visit by the Right wing thugs with bats keeping democracy alive in Kiev and a few of her family members and under loving protection. She will say the right things from now on.
What an odd world we live in these days, where former communists have become "rightwingers" and have declared a "war on women."
Next thing you know, that infamous "rightwinger" Alan Grayson will join in the fray...
"A judge has granted a temporary protective injunction against U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson after his wife filed paperwork accusing the Orlando congressman of shoving and injuring her during an incident this past weekend.
Lolita Grayson's petition for the injunction, dated Monday, says her husband pushed her against a door, causing her to fall to the ground, during a confrontation Saturday at their home on Oak Park Road near Windermere."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-alan-grayson-domestic-violence-wife-20140304,0,7338590.story
Despicable ;-)
Not much of a surprise that Dr. Olga is backpedaling in the spotlight. No doubt the new government in Kiev assured her that a criminal investigation had begun, implying but leaving unsaid that by criminal investigation they meant an investigation by criminals.
She has also likely taken into consideration that it would be in the best interest of the Ukrainian people (such as, for example, her family) that she draw no erroneous conclusions and wait until the investigation is complete.
There will be no kickbacks from the IMF otherwise....
Sounds like Abby and others in the U.S. RT studios have received visits from the gestapo about their 'loyalty'. "Choose sides bitchez!"
She probably met the same people Jay Leno met, who decided to chunk Leno because Fallon was younger more impressionable and easier to manipulate.
Actually, young Jimmy has Membership in a Club that old Jay does not.
Ditto for the other two late nite talkshow hosts.
As the saying goes: Membership has its privileges.
If she has nice legs she will be on fox tomorrow
What a naieve little bitch. Boy is she in for an awakening when she goes to work for the US Gov't owned MSM that white-washes everything Obama does.
Maybe not so naive if she can land a job as a high paid prostitute like Megan Kelly. Woo woo.
My thoughts exactly, see below.
That will be real hard those Watermelon iced tea and skittle stains don't wash out, ask the Bloods.
The best thing about the Ukraine crisis, is to watch everyone on both sides switch on their beliefs ..... Hypocrites doesn't begin to define them.
Transparent ploy to establish credibility and sell her brand to the highest bidder. Its a bit late in her career as a media shill to suddenly develop a conscience.
Get an ax.
So why did she hire as proud U.S. citizen with Putin's propaganda channel in the first place?
So CNN gave her a better offer?
All done purposely by her to secure herself a nice gig at the U.S. state media as opposed to the Russian state media. Well see her on MSNBC by next week as they fawn over her "courage" in accepting a bigger paycheck.
It is true once you get that red pill in you everything is seen for what it truly is.
Does strike me as the kind of bimbo looking to trade up at any chance she can. Her partner is a doctor so I guess we know why she is with him even though he hasnt married her all this time. I am sure if she can find better she would dump him and move on up. Hey maybe a lobbyst partner would suit her new moral code now just fine.
Abby Martin shouldn't make such comments on something she admittedly knows shiat about
she is an idiot, she must have been watching CNN lies too much!!! get rid of her bitch
Funny enough since you mentioned it. Guess who her prior employer to RT was,
wait for it
CNN
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/liz-wahl/13/246/315
And not just any CNN but CNN International the Arab infomercial network. Just ask emmy award winning journalist Amber Lyon about them.
Russia ain't your daddy's Soviet Union princess. And media outlets showing bias for Russians run by Russians. I'm shocked I tell you shocked. Welcome to the real world not the white washed bad guys wear black and good guys wear white Matrix you think it is.
She looks like she has the skills to be the CIO of Target. I hear that position has opened up.
I wish she would have explained how RT has "whitewashed" their Putin/Russia coverage, that way we can make up our own mind.
Something tells me that it has more to do with her family history than and actual whitewashing. But I guess we'll have to wait and see if she substantiates her claims or not.
She posted the following 18 hours ago on twitter:
"Just spoke to grandparents who came to US as refugees escaping Soviets during Hungarian revolution. Amazing to hear amid new Cold War fears"
Sounds pretty personal to me.
both of these women are just more proof a journalist can be as ignorant as any american idol viewer.
Thanks for posting that. I don't twitter so I would not have know that.
I think that you may be correct. Her voice cracked talking about the family, and I can only imagine how Hungarians, Slovaks and Polish among others are thinking with their history...
$100 says this beauty shows up on CNBC. Message me if you want a piece of this action.
Yup its about time ...
Apparently, I like losing money. I'll throw a couple bones out there, but that's it.
My money says FOX.
Okay, fuck you guys. $500 is enough. Don't send me anymore requests, please (I said please).
No one will miss you bitch ..
She mentioned her 'Hungarian' heritage. FYI... http://www.youswear.com/index.asp?language=Hungarian
I'm sure you can string together some nice farewell wishes. ;-)
So why take the job in the 1st place ???
obviously it is because of journalistic integrity. as the question was posed, where else can she go to avoid bullshit .gov or zionist or .1%er propaganda. she'll be back after she realizes she left the most honest shop on the air.
all that is needed to take down the usa is spreading the truth.
Fakeagent has a job for you sweetie. Otherwise, google "Holodomor" for a brief on the geopolitics of the issue
vy verk dere in furst plaze
Can I have your job?
"In other news, a shepherd is suing the federal government over allegations that federal employees sexually molest his flock on a daily basis. The various federal agencies apologized for the confusion and stated that they thought that the sheep were average American citizens".
"Jamie Dimon has died while attempting to suck his own cock, making him the most deserving banker to die".
What, more nonsense to distract the clueless? Making this decision based on the western rhetoric of the standoff in Ukraine is the sure sign of the ill-informed - when all the fate of the dollar and western bank profits are what's really at stake? We've all seen the potential for the new Soviet Union ... and remember, everyone's on the same friggin' side at the levels that matter.
She would be better off using her newly arranged free-time to learn all about the coming SDRs and the amero, the gold theft of World War II, and oh yeah, what's the IMF and CHINA been doing in South America and Africa? Only the same thing the Federal Reserve did (also thru the IMF via Hong Kong) to the Asian, Russian/Slavic populations for the last 100 years.
Watch out America, cuz karma really sucks when you're on the receiving end of it.
If you want your perminent resident VISA, you can keep your perminent resident VISA.
They all think the grass is greener in good ole USSA...
She's a media ho:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/liz-wahl/13/246/315
Liz Wahl's ExperienceCorrespondent/Anchor RTTV America
September 2011 – Present (2 years 7 months) Washington D.C.
Contributor CNN International
June 2011 – September 2011 (4 months)
Reporter/Anchor KSPN
December 2009 – September 2011 (1 year 10 months)
Freelance Associate Producer News 12
April 2009 – November 2009 (8 months)
Intern Fox News Channel
September 2007 – May 2008 (9 months)
Intern NBC 30
January 2006 – May 2006 (5 months)
Man she must of licked a lot of assholes to climb up that ladder.
It was obviously time for a move. She was starting to get stagnant there. Over two and a half years. That is like 10% of her life....
So... does she have information that she's not telling us? "Whitewashing" is an opinion. You're a journalist, report facts to us.
But if all your accounts of what's going on are second hand, then you have no basis to say what someone else is saying is "whitewashing".
Of course, you learn this in ethics classes.
There is absolutely nothing which comes from the MSM that can be believed.
It is either:
I speak globally.
And this young Lady, is just another example: how convenient, and what is she saying?
She says, all the lies from the USA and they are all lies, are not lies; Just Russia lies.
I wonder how much she got paid for this little transparent act. Big bucks methinks as that is how the USA works.
Everything is Lies; It is the US expectation; NSA lie; Congressment Lie, the White House Administration lies and everybody else in American lies (there are, of course, exceptions, but I speak generally).
Since 'Clit' Clinton united the MSM into a one stop source, into which the US Goverment could feed their propaganda, this trend has surged enormously. If it wasn't for the Internet, we wouldn't know just how much this lot are thieving from humanity and or what/who is behind. As a friend of mine says always:
"It's all bullshit."
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Ho hum
Takes no courage to express a popular opinion in front of supporters.
Try going against the flow. Richard Geere spoke against our involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq and as a result destroyed his acting career for the next 10+ years. Dixie Chicks spoke against Bush and were boycotted by the enraged masses, with album burning, poster ripping, death threats and everything.
Today one would likely get the same kind of response praising the ex-president.
This RT broad is throwing a stunt, hoping she gets picked up by FOX or CNN... and she probably will be. It will not hurt her reputation one bit.
Why is everyone giving her such a hard time? Yes American media whitewashes Obamas bullshit, just like Russian media whitewashes Putins bullshit, just like the Chinese media whitewashes Xi Jingping's bullshit, pretty much every country on earth does that. I think its great that at least someone in the mainstream media is objecting to the degradation of journalism.
Then give us facts about why it's whitewashing. I don't need her opinion of what she thinks is going on from second-hand accounts. I don't see how she's any different that someone's crazy old uncle.
You know-you actually do need her opinion, and a whole lot more opinions besides. Without them, there is no concensus. Without concensus, there is no peacable way forward. You go right ahead and damn someone whose profession you distrust, but you're no better than the worst of them:you make your judgement based on a snapshot and your personal bias. She gets no benefit of the doubt, yet is in a far better place to observe 'whitewashing' than you or scores of others here who spout gibberish from ignorance.
That girl has more spine and chutzpah than ten thousand blind fools like yourself. At least she is protesting where all can see, while you skulk around in a blog and spew epithetical fuckery. No wonder we have such fools in government.
I'd agree with you except that she's, well you know, in journalism. Opinions are cheap and plentiful but cold hard facts are high demand and in low supply. So RT is whitewashing Putin? Great, now show us by presenting us the evidence and whatever information that was supposedly kept from the normal course of reporting instead of postulating unsubstantiated opinion. That sort of thing would make us say "Gee, she's a great reporter" instead of saying "Wow, what an opinionated, sanctimonious tool".
Position doesn't mean shit if you can't provide evidence that this sort of thing took place, and no amount of white knighting is going to change the fact that this was more for herself than for the integrity of journalism, kay?
My Margaret Mead ain't up to speed today.
Murrow's ethos has indeed long been gone.
But so far as whitewashing in the media goes, where's your point? Its all we get from the media now. The underground media - ZH, for example- serves the gap a bit, but is just as biased and agendaic as CNN. Where's the evidence? Look right in front of you.
What I get fed up with is the steady stream of sexist, racist, catcalling commentary from so many on this site. They bray like the donkeys, but lack even a seed of an idea for what or how to do better. The case for listening to those you disagree with is in better informing your own opinions, building a consensus and coming up with-god forbid-compromises that don't threaten the survival of the species. All the species. Except cockroaches, and there are many of those who post on the web: they have no balls to actually stand in front of anyone else and take a stand.
The point? She used a blanket statement without specifics and examples when she was in a position to do so, and she turn around and supports the aggressor that started the conflict.
I'm well aware of the bias in the media, but we're talking about her backing up her statements of white washing by presenting what is truly going on in Ukraine rather than regurgitating pseudo-patriotic garbage about how she's the daughter of a veteran, a wife of a physician that serves in a military medical center, proud to be an American, and blah blah blah. I couldn't give two fucks about any of that, but I will gladly spend two non-fiat fucks in order to learn about the specifics of what exactly I'm being lied to about.
Intervening in a sovereign nation's affairs is wrong -I agree with that. However both sides need to be called out on it rather than call out Russia and then turn right back around saying "I'm perd ter be a 'Merican" when the 'Murican guv'mint initiated the conflict -that's shitty journalism and questionable ethics.
You're fed up with sexism, racism, etc. Message received.
Her opinion was heard, and it was deemed to be asinine, self-aggrandizing, and attention-whorish.
So tell me what compromises need to be made on our part that don't threaten the survival of the species? As you can plainly see, the side she has chosen clearly threatens the survival of the species.
She sure has some chutzpah for taking the job after saying what she said about her grandparents and going to work for RT for 2.5years. We know where her morals are. Maybe the chutzpah is banging her in the rear end where all her other crap comes out of. Lady does not deserve me even shooting my load inbetween her eyes, Id rather shoot it on the bed and kick her out naked cause she is now a zionist hoe on her next FOX assignment. She kind of looks a little Asian, we know Rupert Loves them Asian Girls. I am sure she will have no problems taking in his penile implant up her outhouse backdoor.
dafuq?
We don't need consensus OR opinions.
What we need are facts & methods of verification.
The rest can go in the trash.
Consensus is for sheep.
Facts are for smart people.
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Funny. Best laugh all day. Objecting to the degradation of journalism? That's like a woman getting a four-year degree at an expensive university of prostitution, taking a job at a bordello, and then objecting to blowjobs.
She might have been credible if she gave some specific examples of whitewashing by RT and then likened them to US media whitewashing on Iraq, torture, drone strikes on civilians, US support for Al Qaeda in Syria, et cetera.
Yes thats right because I'm sure that RT would let her sit on air for 45 minutes and spill all of their dirty secrets. Good God why didn't I think of that?! You my friend are a genius. Also your anology is a pile of horseshit, you're suggesting that all journalists and newscasters are willfully ignorant and evil. People don't get journalism degrees with the express purpose of being professional liars. What I am saying is that at least someone had the balls to say 'fuck you' to their corporate overlords. She may be a little naive about how fucked up Americas news conglomerates are, but her intentions were in the right place.
What?
Ya, they do.
Jouralism, psychology, politics & economics. All of 'em.
Not a one comes out with an IQ over 50 and expects to do an honest job because there haven't been any for 20+ years in those areas and in the case of psychology & economics: never.
Politics: depends on what pays better.
It is the granding new 'era' of journalism citizenism.
Fox Paging Liz. You have a call to join the least evil of American networks.
...and to complete the farce...she'll be blowing Bill O'Reilly live on the Factor.
I get the image but fortunately I won't be watching.