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That's every news agency.

What is good about having multiple conflicting sources is that they show what others don't... if you want information from the news that is. If you want the news to teach you how to live and become a good citizen, just stick to the one from your government or one from the same group of corporations which runs your political party.

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RT isn't a news agency; it's an external propaganda organ. A western comparable would be Radio Free Europe.

The western equivalent is the BBC or the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

No; the BBC is aimed primarily at internal audiences (and even the BBC World Service isn't aimed primarily at _adversaries_; it was originally for the empire and has morphed into a general emigrants thing).

Rossiya 24, for internal consumption, would probably the rough equiv of, say, BBC News. RT is aimed at external audiences, primarily external audiences in adversary countries, and the BBC doesn't currently operate one of those (though it did during World War 2).

Whataboutism at its finest. Well done.

I have addressed that in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30510093

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