False propaganda offends human dignity: Russia Today convinced me that Vladimir Putin is a liar and a power-hungry empire builder
on 6 March South African journalist Paula Slier, employed by RT, argued that whether one agrees with the channel or not, it should not be banned.
First, it is essential for the growth of knowledge and scientific progress. If no one could say that the Earth was round, we might still have believed it to be flat. But, in the search for the truth many untruths emerge, innocently as well as maliciously. Mighty propaganda machines brainwash people and keep them ignorant. “” thousands of Germans claimed after World War II, as they saw multiple skeletons — dead and barely alive — emerging from concentration camps.
Whether the EU blocks RT because of the perceived danger in what they tell and show us about the war, or as part of a comprehensive sanctions package, I do not know. Slier points out that CNN and Fox News have also spread untruths about war, but are still on the air. She has a point. I would like to ask her though whether it is true that Russian state media may not use terms like “war” and “invasion” and are restricted to the official line of “a special military operation”.
RT conveyed Putin’s various explanations of the reasons for his military operation: the Ukrainian army commits genocide against the people of the Donbas region. They want to belong to Russia. So, Putin recognised Donetsk and Luhansk as “independent people’s republics”! In fact, the entire Ukraine should not be an independent country. The Nazi Ukrainian government, under a Jewish president, must face criminal trials.
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