Sputnik Radio Comes to D.C.

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  1. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

  2. decimon

    decimon Well-Known Member

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  3. Stanislav

    Stanislav Well-Known Member

    Aside from pointing out the fact that they spread their poison in DC now - very informative piece.

    For those of us who completely missed the Jill Steyn campaign, this successfully demonstrates that stupid is not endemic among Trump supporters, and areas "left of the mainstream Democratic Party" host a number of choice imbeciles. Many with graduate degrees and talent for broadcast nonsense spewing. Sigh. I guess I could postulate that all of these are St. Petersburgh - produced fakes and sleeper FSB agents, but I fear these are very real. These are the left wing folks that didn't bother to vote for "neo-liberal disaster" Hillary, and they all can go love themselves in unnatural ways.
     
  4. decimon

    decimon Well-Known Member


    Those ways, these days, are all the craze.
     
  5. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Yeah, but now I'm all curious! :reporter:
     
  6. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    It might be quite interesting to see how they spin things.
     
  7. Stanislav

    Stanislav Well-Known Member

    They will no doubt just spin existing conspiracy theories, from both the Left and the Right. Plus whitewashing all things Russia. Meh.
     
  8. b4cz28

    b4cz28 Active Member


    Same thing our public government media does. NPR/PBS
     
  9. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Despite the name, NPR and PBS aren't "public government media", very little of their funding is federal. It's Voice of America that's actually the U.S. government's news media.

    In coverage, I can't really tell the difference between NPR and other center-left mainstream media. Their tone is more urbane, but the narrative is the same.
     
  10. decimon

    decimon Well-Known Member


    We've noticed. ;-)
     
  11. b4cz28

    b4cz28 Active Member

    Older Article 25% Tax Payer Funded
    Taxpayers Provide More Than 25 Percent of NPR's Funding, Analyst Says | Fox News
     
  12. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    LOL, okay, I walked into that one!
     
  13. Stanislav

    Stanislav Well-Known Member

    Well Duh. Sputnik is the direct equivalent of VoA/Radio Liberty. Only more deceptive and unhinged.
     
  14. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    I listened to Radio Sputnik briefly yesterday. Their radio tower is pretty low powered, audible in the city of Washington itself but not really outside the Beltway. The show I heard was Fault Lines, an "odd couple" show with one host from the left and one from the right, talking about how bad the mainstream media are and how great Radio Sputnik is and how no one at all has told them what to say. I wasn't exactly blown away, but it wasn't any worse than any other talk radio show I've heard. If their wattage were high enough I might add it to my list of things to cycle through, but the low-powered transmitter is pretty frustrating.
     

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