[huhalu]

Surprisingly RT has not yet fired her.

Phil Donahue was fired from NBC for his anti Iraq war opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Donahue#MSNBC_program

[conductor]

RT responded to her: ‘Ms Martin also noted she does not possess a deep knowledge of reality of the situation in Crimea. We’ll be sending her there to give her an opportunity to make up her own mind from the epicentre of the story.’ [0]

She refused to go.

[0] - http://metro.co.uk/2014/03/05/russia-today-anchor-who-spoke-...

[fleitz]

Just as people who critiqued the gulags declined opportunities to see it first hand.

In a war zone is pretty easy to mistake a camera for a bazooka, those that cover war from the 'wrong angle' often end up dead, like the reuters reporters deaths exposed by Bradley Manning.

That said RT is great for getting PoVs not shared by the us government

[shitlord]

To be fair, if this was the mid-2000s and you were an anti-war reporter, would you want to be sent to Iraq?

[rdl]

Absolutely.

[sroerick]

She said on twitter that if she was going, she was going to build her own network up first and not rely on RT contacts.