Russian TV Sounds Like Soviet TV

[Terri]

August 20, 2008

Have you ever heard of Gloria La Riva of the Party for Socialism and Liberation? If you were a faithful viewer of Russia Today, an English-language TV propaganda channel for the Russian government, you would learn that she is running for president of the U.S. and is an expert on the crisis in Georgia who believes that the U.S. is involved in the region only because of oil.

"'The media in the U.S. reflects the interests of the U.S. government, of the U.S. imperialists," Rivera told Russia Today." And therefore, they naturally portray Russia as the aggressor, but we know that's not the case."

Denunciations of U.S. 'imperialism," which were a regular staple of Soviet TV, are back on the Russian version.

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