[mytailorisrich]

I'm fairness, Western European countries have done the same to Russian media.

Here in the UK RT News suddenly disappeared from the air.

As the saying goes, the first casualty of war is the truth. That applies everywhere.

[staindk]

I think RT was literally shut down (with people laid off) by Russia... sooo yeah.

I saw a thing about it on Reddit earlier today/yesterday (seemed to be about the Russian channel?), and this[1] seems to be about the American wing.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/03/russia-backed-cable-news-sta...

[mytailorisrich]

In Europe RT News did not shut down, they were banned.

[staindk]

Ah I see now, thanks. Went through my history and realised that in a thread talking about EU RT being shut down, this[1] thread was linked which I thought was about RT but I see now that it isn't.

Looks like RT is/was very government-backed and spreading a ton of misinformation - so I can understand why people would want to shut it down (for spreading verifiably incorrect information), but on the other hand can also see why it's not a good look :/

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t5ug4p/the_entire_...

[sib]

Eehhhh... do you think most Western Europeans don't know what's going on?

[mytailorisrich]

I don't know what's really going on, only at best an approximation because all the reports I have access to are biased in some way.

It's important to recognise this.

[lostmsu]

The difference is that you can still see first hand reports from individuals in Russia. But all media in the state has to repeat what government says or be banned like Echo of Moscow. Since this morning individuals will be jailed too, but I doubt it would be impossible to find someone defying this new law.

[mytailorisrich]

It usually always possible to see the negative aspects of the other side. After all, that's what your side wants you to see.

But it's hard to see the negative aspects of your side.

For instance, did you know that the Ukrainians essentially executed an Israeli civilian at a checkpoint because they though he was Chechen? Our media pick and choose what they report and how they report it.

[colpabar]

Thank you for saying this. I really can't stand the "west good, everyone else bad" arrogance I see here sometimes. Western rulers lie to their people too!

As an exercise, search for "the ghost of kyiv" and then try to imagine what the headlines would look like if it were a actually a fake russian story about a russian pilot instead of a ukrainian one.