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RT is literally state controlled. It has no independence. It operates in literally the same offices as RIA Novosti.
You are out of your mind if you are trying to claim they are anything other than state TV by any meaningful definition.
You're full of it. From the time they were founded, they operated in the same building as RIA Novosti. RT didn't exist until AFTER the various independent journalists and their associations were ALREADY being rounded up and cast out of Russian society.
They are now and have always been state-controlled. Stop apologizing for dictatorships.
RT was founded in 2005.
By 2008 they were parroting clearly-bullshit Russian talking points about Georgia in the 2008 war.
World Tomorrow aired in 2012.
You. Are. Full. Of. It.
How much of their funding came from the state? 100%? That’s 100% control.
You’re too used to people making attacks. That’s not what I was trying to do. I was asking questions. I don’t know how much of RTs funding comes from the state, and I don’t even know if they run commercials.
I don’t know how RT is funded, and I’ve never watched it.
i'd say %60 advertisers, %39 shareholders, %1 workers and journalistic integrity