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Senate Dem Seeks Investigation of RT for Being Russian-Funded

Ditz, Jason
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2017/03/14/senate-dem-seeks-investigation-of-rt-for-being-russian-funded/

Publisher:  AntiWar.com
Date Written:  14/03/2017
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D – NH) is pushing a bill that would seek a Justice Department investigation of whether television station RT America is "coordinating with the Russian government."

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That RT is an auxiliary of the Russian government was never actually in question, and financial ties are only to be expected. Sen. Shaheen’s efforts to try to argue RT employees are violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, however, is another matter. The act explicitly targets lobbyists and people engaging in "political activities," but provides exemptions for many types of news organizations, and does not generally appear to be enforced against any of the other state-owned media outlets from around the world. Whether RT can be targeted under the act appears to rest heavily on whether the US government decides it is or isn’t engaged in "bona fide news or journalistic activities," or at least less-so than the BBC or al-Jazeera.
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This mirrors almost exactly the US government’s control over Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and several other media outlets, which had long been run as nominally autonomous outlets themselves, under the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG).

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