Right now it is worthless, anything on RT about the "special military operation" is 100% propaganda. It's just fun watching their presenters try to act normal.
E.g., I saw a post yesterday on Medium that Ukraine is discriminating against black refugees (https://medium.com/alternative-perspectives/why-are-black-pe...). If you're only listening to the Ukraine friendly media, you'll miss that (IMO important fact).
They also seem to put the greatest emphasis on human suffering, which is a bias im in favor of.
There is value to reading propaganda to have wider visibility though, especially since most propaganda selectively presents the truth rather than outright lying and both sides will often simply choose to present similar events in a different context.
No society or people on Earth are perfect. Don't let them convince you that this means you should never take a stand.
What's coming out of Ukraine/Zelensky are optimistic numbers and morale boosting statements mostly based on real events
What's coming out of Putin and RT is pure fantasy and has virtually no basis on real world events: Ukranian government are Nazis, Ukrain population is mostly pro Russia, Ukraine is mostly welcoming Russian troops, it's a liberation operation, &c.
> I saw a post yesterday on Medium that Ukraine is discriminating against black refugee
Is Medium being censored ? Is medium a Russian source ?
See, you can still get informations of all kind without RT. And calling that "the russian" side is a stretch. It is used by russian propaganda to pretend ukranians are monster though (which is ironic considering Russian stance but whatever)
It’s also useful to see what overdone propaganda is like to have a solid reference point for when our own countries try to do the same.
I'm going to be thát guy; do you have sources to support that claim? I've been hearing about that sentiment but haven't seen any data about it.
RT cut down their tabloid tone a notch too.
RTs main problem is that it is called Russia Today. That is a worthless name to do foreign psyops ... learn from al-Jazeera.
Yesterday they published a story on chemical weapons WMD laboratories they supposedly found. Western media has ignored the story so far.
It's almost as if it's designed specifically to be awkward to denounce.
On the other hand, I dare you to find an RT story critical of Putin, without any sugarcoating. Beyond the war, on literally any topic.
So no, it's not western media from a Russian POV.
Both sides are, generally speaking, enforcing a narrative and rejecting objectivity in favor of the narrative ergo it's propaganda
Freedom of press for me but not for thee.
Any war the US started had significant opposition in local media. Saying that it's the same is disingenuous at best, Russian propaganda at worst.