I occasionally browse RT. In general, I don’t like the site. The editorial direction is to be wholly negative about the West and wholly positive about Russia. Since I am a Western person, it leaves me feeling that I am being made to feel a bit miserable. Still, it is noteworthy for picking up stories which the Western media block.
Here is one. Belgian Prime Minister has called for the EU to negotiate with Russia, saying that the policy of isolation has failed. (Funilly enough, I was just thinking that just before I saw the article). This is what he said:
Since we are not capable of threatening [Russian President Vladimir] Putin by sending weapons to Ukraine, and we cannot choke him economically without the support of the US, there is only one method left: making a deal
I could not agree more. The policy of “I won’t talk to you” led by the two infants von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas is an embarrassment. Whoever thought that closing your ears and going “la, la, la I am right and you are wrong”, was the way to solve political, diplomatic problems?
But, what interests me here, is how this major policy contribution from the current Prime Minister of a founding member of the EU, and home to NATO’s European headquarters is being treated by the mainstream UK media. How do you think it is being treated? Yes, that’s right. Ignored. Blanked. Edited out. I did a Google search – noting that Google is already heavily biased in favour of the corporate-military establishment, (in which they themselves sit as an economic power and service partner), and Google can hardly find any coverage of this major development in Western media. The leading links are from media outlets in Syria, the Gulf, Kurdistan and Ukraine. (This often happens in fact; Ukrainian media reports these developments – obviously in a tone of shock – which are ignored by the Western media). You have to go to page 2 of the results to find a report on a minor European journal. I don’t see any of the main US or UK outlets on the first two pages.
And, this is how they manipulate public opinion. Quite deliberately. Consciously. In a planned way. At the editorial level. Which is linked to the intelligence services. The role of the media is, nominally, to faciliate public debate, linking policy makers to the public so that everyone can be involved in the debate. The reality, is that they stick to the narrow corporate-governmental line, (currently still focussed on ‘defeating’ Russia), and press this line into the brains of the public. It is, quite objectively speaking, even worse than Russian media.