U.S. SEC OF STATE KERRY BASHES RT; RT RESPONDS MOSCOW, APRIL 25 In the April 24 U.S.

. Department of State briefing on Ukraine U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry claimed that the news network is distorting facts about the situation in Ukraine; RT issued a response. Speaking from the U.S. Department of State briefing ro om, Secretary Kerry said that In fact the propaganda bullhorn that is the state-sponsored Russia Today program has been deployed to promote actually, Russia Today network has been deployed to promote President Putins fantasy about what is playing out on the ground. They almost spend full-time devoted to this effort, to propagandize and distort what is happening, or not happening, in Ukraine. We are disappointed that Secretary Kerry seems to know so little about what is actually going on on the ground in eastern Ukraine in such a critical time, and invite him to watch more of our news reports," said RT editor in chief Margarita Simonyan. RT shows the facts of what is and has been happening in Ukraine, from the very beginning, even if those facts are inconvenient to the Western political and media establishment, and therefore are disregarded by them despite abundant evidence. RT will be seeking an official response from the U.S. Department of State substantiating Mr. Kerrys claims. In 2011, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on the U.S. Congress to increase the funding for Department of State and foreign broadcasting in particular, pointing to the fact that Washington is losing the global information war to channels like RT. Earlier this month the U.S. Congress authorized additional funding for Voice of America and Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty to broadcast into Ukraine with the aim of combatting Russian news media influence in the region.
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