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In reply to the discussion: The Western Corporate Media Cannot Be Trusted. [View all]BlueCheese
(2,522 posts)But I distrust RT much more than I distrust the New York Times. When the US Navy shot down an Iranian airliner, it was acknowledged immediately. Neither the government nor the press pretended otherwise.
The NYT has really screwed up at times. But except in the cases of outright fraud, I think the NYT and other Western sources believe that what they're writing is true. Probably even Judith Miller believed what she was peddling. RT and other propaganda outlets say things that are knowably, objectively, false.
Think of it this way: If the NYT, or WaPo, or ABC News, etc. found out something personally damaging about the U.S. president (say, tax fraud, or infidelity), would they print it? If RT found out something like that about Putin, would they?