Tired Of Mainstream Media:

[MikeK]

It wasn't long ago that our mainstream American print and broadcast media was owned by hundreds of competitive entities. Today they are owned and tightly controlled by small, powerful conglomerates whose primary interest is profit and the kind of political influence that fosters power.

If you're tired of reading, watching, and hearing only that which the conglomerates want you to know? And are you tired of being bombarded by five minutes of brainwashing commercials for every five minutes of entertainment?

If you are sufficiently liberated to understand that Russia is not our enemy, and if you feel you might enjoy a refreshing change from the mainstream media news brainwash, go here http://rt.com/on-air/ and watch RT (Russia Today) on-line, or you can watch it on television.

It's not all good but most of it is -- and some of it is far superior to anything you'll find on the mainstream.

Give it a try. You might be very pleasantly surprised.

http://rt.com/on-air/

 

[KevinWestern]

It wasn't long ago that our mainstream American print and broadcast media was owned by hundreds of competitive entities. Today they are owned and tightly controlled by small, powerful conglomerates whose primary interest is profit and the kind of political influence that fosters power.

If you're tired of reading, watching, and hearing only that which the conglomerates want you to know? And are you tired of being bombarded by five minutes of brainwashing commercials for every five minutes of entertainment?

If you are sufficiently liberated to understand that Russia is not our enemy, and if you feel you might enjoy a refreshing change from the mainstream media news brainwash, go here http://rt.com/on-air/ and watch RT (Russia Today) on-line, or you can watch it on television.

It's not all good but most of it is -- and some of it is far superior to anything you'll find on the mainstream.

Give it a try. You might be very pleasantly surprised.

http://rt.com/on-air/

I agree with your opinion about today's mainstream media, and have actually read a number of RT articles in the past.

However personally I can't trust a state-run news source because they're always going to have an incentive to be biased one way or another. That's the simple truth. If a piece of news would be damaging to Russia or one of their interests, it would be skewed to look like something else or would be removed all together. That's a weak link I can't get passed, which is why I generally look elsewhere.

 

[MikeK]

It wasn't long ago that our mainstream American print and broadcast media was owned by hundreds of competitive entities. Today they are owned and tightly controlled by small, powerful conglomerates whose primary interest is profit and the kind of political influence that fosters power.

If you're tired of reading, watching, and hearing only that which the conglomerates want you to know? And are you tired of being bombarded by five minutes of brainwashing commercials for every five minutes of entertainment?

If you are sufficiently liberated to understand that Russia is not our enemy, and if you feel you might enjoy a refreshing change from the mainstream media news brainwash, go here http://rt.com/on-air/ and watch RT (Russia Today) on-line, or you can watch it on television.

It's not all good but most of it is -- and some of it is far superior to anything you'll find on the mainstream.

Give it a try. You might be very pleasantly surprised.

http://rt.com/on-air/

I agree with your opinion about today's mainstream media, and have actually read a number of RT articles in the past.

However personally I can't trust a state-run news source because they're always going to have an incentive to be biased one way or another. That's the simple truth. If a piece of news would be damaging to Russia or one of their interests, it would be skewed to look like something else or would be removed all together. That's a weak link I can't get passed, which is why I generally look elsewhere.

Kevin,

No argument. But what "elsewhere" would you recommend?

I just find RT a refreshing change from mainstream news sources. It affords a much closer look at some things and it presents things the mainstream simply wouldn't.