How Russia-gate Rationalizes Censorship

http://consortiumnews.com/2017/12/04/how-russia-gate-rationalizes-censorship/
Date Written:  2017-12-04
Publisher:  Consortium News
Year Published:  2017
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX21777

The Russia-gate hysteria has spread beyond simply a strategy for neutralizing Donald Trump or even removing him from office into an excuse for stifling U.S. dissent that challenges the New Cold War, reports Joe Lauria.

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The imperative is to get these stories out -- and Russian media has provided an opening for some. This has presented a new problem for the plutocracy. The suppression of critical news in their corporate-owned media is no longer working if it's seeping out in Russian media (and through some dissident Western news sites on the Internet).

The solution has been to brand the content of the Russian television network, RT, as "propaganda" since it presents facts and viewpoints that most Americans have been kept from hearing. But just because these views -- many coming from Americans and other Westerners -- are not what you commonly hear on the U.S. mainstream media doesn't make them "propaganda" that must be stigmatized and silenced.