War of the "Words"

A battle of truth and justice involving one man and his Wikileaks. The public confused over whose word to believe. Russia Today (RT) versus TIME & CNN.

Russia Today during the entire Assange debacle has stood firm next to him, granting him plenty of interviews including alongside the condemned Rupert Murdoch. Russia Today's almost cult following worldwide boasts roughly 700 million followers. It has close links with the Russian Government and continually publishes "soft propaganda". However soft, it has had a penetrating effect in the U.S.

The last two weeks has seen conflicting news stories between U.S. media and Russia Today. The first instance of this was when Hilary Clinton talked of an arms shipment from Russia via UK waters to Syria's civil war. See CNN's article, U.S. says Russian helicopters being shipped to Syria.

Contrast that article with what Russia Today published in the following days.'Russia does not sell combat helicopters to Syria' said Sergey Larov, Russia's Foreign Minister. 

The UK was asked by the U.S to intercept this cargo, UK media then reported this. British stop Russian ship carrying attack helicopters to Syria. We now know that this ship was carrying attack helicopters, whether they be new or not. 


See both CNN and RT's explanation of the above, take note that at first RT attempted to make a spin on words purporting that Western media had made up a varient of attack helicopter saying "Curiously, the media mention a model of chopper which does not exist.". You will not find the exact article as it was on the day, the editors have been busy. I was still able to copy and paste that snippet from RT's front page dated the 18th of June. A little research will find that the Peruvian Air force also sports the Mil Mi-25. RT's edited explanation versus CNN's version of event's. 


Finally this brings me to question Julian Assange, with Russia Today versus TIME magazine. You really have to read RT to get an idea of the extent to which they support him, it would seem that not a day goes by without some mention of him. Julian Assange and Ecuador. And TIME's version here Ecuador and Julian Assange.