Trump goes on Russia-state-owned RT to slam the US media

[BaldEagle1991]

I minored in journalism, you guys want my perspective on RT?

[BaldEagle1991]

Okay...

RT was set up mainly as an international mouthpiece for Russia. It is no different from Voice of America for our country. There is surely a lot of journalistic ethical issues with the channel, and it is up there with Fox News with loaded journalistic ethical problems. The biggest ethical violation you see in RT is objectiveness. This is something I see violated a lot unless you're watching your local news TV channel program. However RT is a repeat offender for it, they will overblow anything that makes America or The West look bad.

Now here's one thing RT does get right is showcasing certain stuff that major TV news nets won't cover in America because their for-profit sponsors will withdraw their support if they did. There's a reason why they're pretty much the biggest news channel covering the Dakota Pipeline issue; Chevron, Shell or whatever isn't a sponsor for their network. If CNN did wall-to-wall coverage on that then it would lose a major oil company as an advertiser as revenue.

I view this as perhaps the biggest issue with journalism ethics. Should media channels have anything beholden too anyone while maintaining integrity? It has NEVER happened at all and it's difficult to make sure it happens.

[BaldEagle1991]

Okay...

RT was set up mainly as an international mouthpiece for Russia. It is no different from Voice of America for our country.

Alas, I have to stop reading here.

Ever heard of VOA? We're doing the same thing in other countries like RT. Only VOA has less journalistic ethic violations.