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Where is evidence of this 'reputation for being Putin's mouthpiece?' Other than your impassioned assertions? Also, all media is biased. BBC is biased toward Western and UK interests, RT is biased toward Russian interests. This is something RT freely admits. But does BBC?

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RT is beyond biased. Your claim, if true, equates all media to propaganda. Biased media is simply not the same as propaganda.

Secondary and tertiary definitions from MW for propaganda:

- the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person

- ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause; also : a public action having such an effect

That certainly sounds exactly like the media's behavior in this country to me.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/propaganda

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