Margarita Simonyan Quotes
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I noticed that mainstream western TV channels, especially CNN and ABC, show the same thing.
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It worries me that western journalists, especially British ones, call everyone they don't like 'marginal.'
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Being government funded does not necessarily mean being biased, just like being privately funded does not necessarily mean being independent.
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We congratulate American freedom of speech and all who still believe in it.
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If all the media are singing one song, it gets dangerous; it really does.
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The information weapon, of course, is used in critical moments, and war is always a critical moment.
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When the world normalizes, everything is going to be fine with RT. When the U.S. and Russia get along again - and I don't see any deep reasons why we shouldn't get along... we are going to work normally like a normal news organization.
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Somehow it did not occur to us that, in a developed democracy, regular media advertising could turn out to be a suspicious and harmful activity.
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Mainstream media journalists, especially in the United States and West Europe, prefer to ignore those problems in their own countries which they usually criticize in other countries, including in Russia.
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The disgusting truth is that some of the less-educated families in the Caucasus hate and despise Russians simply because they are Russian, just as some less-educated Russian families feel the same way about people from the Caucasus.
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Our job is to tell the world about Russia and to report world news from a Russian viewpoint.
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There is just a small difference between the United States and Russia - Russia does not teach the whole world democracy.
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Russian children typically hear racist and ethnic slurs against Caucasus natives at home before hearing it on the streets.
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One might have thought that Brexit would be a wake-up call for the American media. Yet, just as in the U.K. referendum, 'Russia' became the buzzword in the U.S. election that the political and media establishments thought would scare people into voting for the status quo.
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To all the self-righteous defenders of 'freedom of speech' who oh-so-ardently proclaimed that FARA registration places no restrictions whatsoever on RT's journalistic work in the U.S.: Withdrawal of Congressional credentials speaks much louder than empty platitudes.
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I don't understand why any country is given a chance to make its point of view seen and heard by the world, and Russia is not given that chance.
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Russia has never been very good at explaining itself to foreigners.
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We would like to be the third-most-watched news channel in the U.K.
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Apparently, all foreign media organisations have to follow an approved script of acceptable coverage, lest they are accused of interference. And make no mistake: we're not talking about neutrality. The only acceptable approach was, 'Support Clinton, attack Trump'.
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You might not believe me, but I really don't like conspiracy theories.
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It's time to wake up to the reality that ignoring the genuine concerns of the 'fringe,' until it becomes the majority, is patently ridiculous. That the scapegoating of alternative opinions doesn't work.
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When the Soviet Union collapsed, the television businesses found it was easier to hire 16- or 18-year-olds and teach them everything from the beginning rather than re-teach the old-school folk.
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If I saw and if I really sincerely thought that what Putin is doing is harmful for my country and for my people and it needs to be stopped, I wouldn't hesitate to do that.
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We never make editorial decisions with people who are working closely with Vladimir Putin, unless you consider myself a person who is working closely with Vladimir Putin.