RT Stung by <i>Guardian</i> Calling Assange 'Useful Idiot': Last week I criticized the premiere of Julian Assange's new Russia Today chat show, which featured a tepid and occasionally fawning interview with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Breitbart News wasn't the only outlet to criticize Assange and RT. The Guardian, which once benefited from Assange's leaks, labeled him a "useful idiot" and a "pawn."
Russia Today – now styled RT – is state-owned and Kremlin-controlled...the channel offers a shiny updated version of Soviet propaganda. The west, and America in particular, is depicted as crime-ridden, failing, and in thrall to big business and evil elites. RT's favourite theme is western hypocrisy: "How dare you criticise us when you do the same?" The English-language channel portrays itself as "anti-mainstream". In reality it reflects Putin's own conspiratorial, touchy and xenophobic world-view while staying mute about Russia's own failings.
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