Why just covert?

There are proper overt examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Libert...

Russia is just the current boogeyman, where you can call anything you don't like "russian propaganda" (like fighting for workers rights in US a few decades ago was just "commies", same for trying to stop the war in vietnam... "commies" everywhere).

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MomsAVoxell 4 days ago | parent [-]

I'm fine with overt propaganda. That can be addressed in an open public manner.

It's the insidious covert propaganda which leads to more war and calamity in the world.

"Sources say" .. "an unnamed source wishing to remain anonymous says" .. "officials in the administration say" .. we all need to lift our standards for truth.

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censor1234 4 days ago | parent [-]

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MomsAVoxell 4 days ago | parent [-]

I think it sucks - it definitely provided a balance to the CIA mouthpiece propaganda that has inundated Europe since the atrocities began.

But, it didn't work. Folks who care about these things, know how to gain access to rt.com, anyway. And fortunately there is a rising generation in Europe who are sick of the agitprop, see it for what it is, and seek to inform themselves.

There are, of course, still those who parrot the party line on either side. But there won't be balance - and thus truth - if one just decides to stick ones fingers in ones ears and not hear the opinion of the people they are being told to hate, by authorities.

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