Looks like more unrest over at the modern day Pravda. Maybe Roger Ailes can give RT News some advice on keeping their Proles on message?
“As a reporter on this network I face many ethical and moral challenges especially me personally coming from a family whose grandparents came here as refugees during the Hungarian revolution, ironically to escape the Soviet forces."
"I’m very lucky to have grown up here in the United States. I’m the daughter of a veteran. My partner is a physician at a military base where he sees every day the first-hand accounts of the ultimate prices that people pay for this country. And that is why personally I cannot be part of a network that funded by the Russian government that whitewashes the actions of Putin. I am proud to be an America and believe in disseminating the truth and that is why after this newscast I’m resigning.”
Man, what I wouldn't give to see some internal RT News staff e-mails right now.
Daily Beast has an exclusive interview up already.
Wahl, for her part, says that while the Kremlin influence over RT isn’t always overt, that journalists there understand what they have to do to succeed and fall into line accordingly. “I think management is able to manipulate the very young and naïve employees,” she says. “They will find ways to punish you covertly and reward those that do go along with their narrative.”
“It’s interesting that our motto is ‘Question More,’” she says of the RT slogan. (It once adorned posters showing President Obama morphing into former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with the words, “Who poses the greater nuclear threat?”)
“In order to succeed there you don’t question,” she adds. “In a way you kind of suppress any concerns that you have and play the game.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/...
I've enjoyed watching RT in the past - even when they got all Alex Jones-y - but this crisis has really pushed their obvious bias into the spotlight. Their headlines have been silly at best and nefarious at worse since Putin started this mess.
Case in point: Ms. Wahl's on-air resignation immediately followed yet another RT News report claiming that "fascists and Neo-Nazis" form the bulk of the new Ukrainian government. Yeah, ok.
update (thanks AnnetteK!): apparently RT News is none too happy about this, what a surprise
Note how they passively aggressively downplay Abby Martin's condemnation.