RT aims to discredit the United States in a straightforward way. The Kremlin-funded television network – established in 2005, operating in English, Arabic, and Spanish – doesn’t report on America and the West warts and all, but rather focuses single-mindedly on warts alone. That’s not all. Sins of omission, falsehoods, and conspiracy theories – like Ukraine shooting down the Malaysian Airlines passenger flight in 2014 to gain sympathy – help advance a narrative of US leaders hypocritical and unreliable; American allies weak and corrupt; democracy and free enterprise, a sham.
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(FILES) Russia's President Vladimir Putin visits the new studio complex of the state-owned English-language Russia Today television network in Moscow, on June 11, 2013.
