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(March 2012)

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JC
JCB
Hmm. Give it a few weeks/months for this all to die down and she'll be outta there.

She makes some relatively fair points but comes across as someone with a hugely inflated sense of their own importance in that clip.


Urgh, agreed. The over-inflated ego on display there is close to dwarfing even Bill O'Reily.
WS
WintrySarcasm
I assume Breaking the Set is an opinion programme like Maddow or O'Reilly? Any channel carrying those kind of shows should lose the right to call themselves News channels, and presenters on news channels should keep their opinions to themselves.

Also her blather about her comments only being picked up because they fit the narrative - is she really that stupid? I also like how she opposes the idiocy of Glenn Greenwald (who I otherwise respect, but his ego seems to be growing rapidly since Snowden), who apparently in the same article asked if any American journalists publicly opposed the Irag war, and then listed journalists who got fired for "going off script over the Iraq war".
LL
London Lite Founding member
I assume Breaking the Set is an opinion programme like Maddow or O'Reilly? Any channel carrying those kind of shows should lose the right to call themselves News channels, and presenters on news channels should keep their opinions to themselves.


From RT's site.

http://rt.com/shows/breaking-set-summary/

Quote:
There are too many rules in our society that only prop up the establishment – an establishment that tries its hardest to divide and conquer the people. ‘Breaking the Set’ is a show that cuts through the pre-written narrative that tries to tell you what to think, and what to care about.


It's fair to say BTS is a left-wing skewed show, featuring guests such as activists, bloggers and other RT staff.

Abby also runs the Media Roots website. http://www.mediaroots.org/about/
WS
WintrySarcasm
Thanks for that. Quite hilarious to see a channel funded by the Russian state complaining about rules propping up the establishment.
LL
London Lite Founding member
Tonight's Breaking the Set is a repeat due to the amount of interview requests for Abby Martin.

She's also mentioned on Twitter that she refused to go to Crimea without making her own contacts. She didn't want to be parachuted in by RT, presumably with some constructed scenes made for propaganda.
:-(
A former member
Shes a very smart woman.
MI
midnightvignette
Ouch.



Some background here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/05/exclusive-rt-today-anchor-liz-wahl-explains-why-she-quit.html
LL
London Lite Founding member
Liz Wahl's resignation has been six months in the making as she already had concerns after Moscow stopped some of her reporting going out on the channel, despite being based at their DC bureau.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/05/exclusive-rt-today-anchor-liz-wahl-explains-why-she-quit.html

RT are quoted replying to CNN

Quote:
"When a journalist disagrees with the editorial position of his or her organization, the usual course of action is to address those grievances with the editor, and, if they cannot be resolved, to quit like a professional."
"But when someone makes a big public show of a personal decision, it is nothing more than a self-promotional stunt,"


http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/05/world/europe/russia-news-anchor-resigns/index.html?eref=edition
Last edited by London Lite on 6 March 2014 1:25am - 2 times in total
WS
WintrySarcasm
Tonight's Breaking the Set is a repeat due to the amount of interview requests for Abby Martin.


So her little quest for self-publicity worked out so well she gets out of work for a day.
LL
London Lite Founding member
Tonight's Breaking the Set is a repeat due to the amount of interview requests for Abby Martin.


So her little quest for self-publicity worked out so well she gets out of work for a day.


Abby was on CNN last night being interviewed by Piers Morgan.



Liz Wahl who resigned last night was on Anderson Cooper.

LL
London Lite Founding member
RT's Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan speaks out.

http://rt.com/op-edge/about-liz-wahl-media-wars-126/
WS
WintrySarcasm
Reading that was rather cringeworthy - it read like something you'd see on a blog of an Occupy activist or something, rather than from an Editor in Chief of a "real" news organisation. Mind you, she is 33, and was made EiC at 25.

The fact she acts like RT is somehow completely untouched by the Russian government is a joke though, considering she's also Editor in Chief of Rossiya Segodnya which is the agency created when Putin shut down the previous news agency, RIA Novosti.

But hey, she hates seeing journalists being attacked. And I'm sure RTs coverage of the numerous murders of Russian journalists has been in-depth, right?

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