[GPSCC-chat] RT Censors Entire Episode Of Breaking The Set

[Brian]

RT does some good work, but their work on 9/11 has mostly been terrible.  They seem to have a 
talent for picking out the most discrediting people to represent the 9/11 Truth movement, 
consistently featuring persons such as the blatant con artist William Rodriguez, and  the bigot and 
violence-monger and liar Dr. Kevin Barrett.

Another 9/11 "expert" of RT's is Webster Tarpley, who famously wiped out in 2007 when he 
published the Kennebunkport Letter warning that a Cheney-orchestrated terrorist attack was 
imminent.   Signatories included several prominent members of the peace movement, 
including Cindy Sheehan and Cynthia McKinney and Ann Wright.  When these worthies
protested that their signatures had been obtained under false pretenses, Tarpley melted down
and called them "wretched individuals".

Tarpley's nonsense dampened the good relations that the truth movement had been developing
in the peace movement, and it badly divided the truth movement--some siding with Tarpley (and 
his buddy Barrett) out of personal loyalties, and others deploring Tarpley's poor political sense 
and the idiocy of repeatedly  warning of upcoming attacks that never come to pass.  Apparently
Tarpley's notoriety both in the truth movement and the peace movement was unknown to RT
when they interviewed him.

RT's most recent 9/11-related coverage  of which I am aware (Abby Martin, a veteran of the truth 
movement in San Diego, has refrained from covering it) was last fall, a 13-minute segment  on 
Operation Gladio--a NATO operation of several decades' duration under which terrorist bombings 
were done in Italy and blamed on Communists.  The 1980 bombing of the Bologna railway station 
killed 80 civilians.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vka7Da6e9LY#t

The segment has some good information and interviewed some solid people, but it's very sloppy 
in its details.   At one point it falsely accuses Rachel Maddow of making personal attacks on 9/11 
family members who were truthers, and right in the middle they feature Kevin Barrett's claim that 
the respected Egyptian journalist Mohamed Heikal had admitted that he had been "virtually 
running so-called Al-Qaeda" at a time when he was "at the highest levels of government in 
Europe".   I tried to verify this claim and found nothing to support it.    That this libel did not raise 
a shitstorm would appear to be a testament to Barrett's insignificance as an "expert" at Press TV.

The segment shows that RT failed to vet its experts and does not check its facts.  Take it with a
teaspoon of salt.





























 



Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 10:06:40 -0700
From: pagesincolor at yahoo.com
To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org; palestineis at dslextreme.com
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] RT Censors Entire Episode Of Breaking The Set

If you go to the Breaking The Set Youtube page located here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/breakingtheset


you can see that there is the Friday 3-28-14 show posted as show # 353 and there is the 4-2-14 show posted as show # 354. I will swear on a stack of bibles (but not in vain) that on Monday 3-31-14 there was a single broadcast of a new BTS show at 3PM Pacific Time featuring an anonymous artist who had his face hidden who was talking about his campaign to overturn copyright laws in his country. The new Monday show was not repeated in the 6:30PM PT time slot nor was it repeated in the 8:30AM PT time slot the next day. In its place was the 3-28-14 show # 353. I left messages about
 this on the BTS and Abby Martin Facebook pages and did get one terse response from the BTS people saying they weren't sure why this happened (but acknowledging that it DID happen, so it's not my imagination or missrecollection of a previous but different show broadcast in the Monday 3PM time slot).
Publicly, Abby Martin maintains that RT.com allows her editorial freedom with her show and brags that she didn't get fired for criticizing Putin's "invasion" and "aggression" in Crimea on air on one of her shows a couple of weeks ago. But I wonder if that is all there is to the
 story. Monday's incident has left me feeling just a little suspicious. What do you think?
John Thielking
PS Monday was a holiday for some people, but quite often what happens on holidays (and
 other alternative media broadcasters do this too) is that they will broadcast a new show on the holiday and then rerun an old show the day after. The reruns the day after happened on BTS and Flashpoints on kpfa.org, which is normal. I have no beef with that.
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