Correspondent Tells Her Kremlin Bosses She’s Had Enough

In The Young Turks on YouTube by Hlarson2 Comments

 

“It seems every time the world pays attention to Russia Today, the Kremlin-backed “news” channel, someone who works there realized they probably shouldn’t.

Earlier this year, during the Russian invasion of Crimea, RT anchor Liz Wahl resigned on-air, refusing to be “part of a network that whitewashes the actions of Putin.” (Fellow anchor Abby Martin also criticized the network, but still works there.) Following yesterday’s anti-Ukraine coverage of the passenger jet shot out of the sky, another journalist has quit in a very public way. But at least it wasn’t on TV. Just Twitter.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies), Michael Shure, and John Iadarola (TYT University) break it down.

*Read more here from Joe Coscarelli / NY Mag:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/07/russia-today-reporter-quits-ukraine-plane-propaganda.html

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