RT America and Lionel on How New York Times Is Envious of RT’s Success

The American media and political establishment have launched a witch-hunt against left-wing alternative media, and especially RT, because of the way these news outlets are becoming increasingly popular. People are becoming disenchanted with the lamestream media, just as they are heartily fed up with establishment, corporate politicians. And that has got the media-industrial-political complex very worried.

RT is being particularly targeted for suspicion, ’caused it’s owned by the Russian state, and so must be part of a terrible plot by Putin and his minions to undermine America and destroy capitalism by, er, doing their job as reporters properly and holding government to account. Which means covering Killary’s corruption.

Now the New York Times has joined the witch-hunt with an article attacking RT.

In this clip from RT America, Ashley Banks and the media commentator, Lionel, of Lionel Media, discuss this story. They make the point that it’s based fear much in fear of Russia, and that RT is doing nothing more than every other media outlet. They’re expanding, yes, but every media outlet wishes to pursue excellence. RT has 2.1 billion views worldwide, and 2.2 million subscribers. But Pewdiepie has 57 million subscribers. Lionel goes on to say that the NY Times article is ‘confused and envious’, embarrassing, and looks like it was written by someone, who has only just found out what the Internet is and that it helps people. It’s like the Saturday Night Live sketch about the caveman, who says he just a simple man and doesn’t understand your modern ways.
He also makes the point that perhaps if the New York Times paid the same attention to their own affairs and developing their audience, they wouldn’t now have to sell off several of the floors in their 8th Avenue office block.

The Republicans hate the New York Times, as they somehow perceive it as a ‘liberal’ paper. But Counterpunch has repeatedly shown how it has a very corporatist, very pro-War bias. It was consistently for the Iraq invasion, and Chris Hedges, the Socialist journo and war correspondent, was sacked because he wrote opposing the War. Much of this new ‘Red Scare’ about supposed Russian interference comes from the corporate Democrats trying to find a scapegoat for Killary’s failure to win the American presidency, supported by some very unpleasant, extremely right-wing organisations. Like the Von Mises Institute, which used to publish pro-eugenics material and argued that Americans shouldn’t have a welfare state, because it would just keep the biologically unfit alive. Like Blacks. You won’t be surprised to hear that they also subscribed to pseudo-scientific racism, and so put out article which supposedly showed how Blacks were thicker than Whites etc. These are the people that Killary and her supporters have now allied with in their determination to close down RT and other left-wing or alternative media news outlets.

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