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[Paul Rigby]

'They'll try to shut you down': Meeting Assange & the non-stop 'War on RT'

Margarita Simonyan

http://rt.com/op-edge/212587-assange-dem...ass-media/

I had barely returned from London when the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution that, among other things, calls on US officials in Europe to "evaluate the political, economic, and cultural influence of Russia and Russian state-sponsored media and to coordinate with host governments on appropriate responses."

In other words, the US would pressure Europe to kick us out of there. And that's already happening. Over the last year we've been witnessing a number of less than pleasant trends.

1. Pressuring of our employees.

The executive editor of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty writes that "young journalists are already finding that a spell at RT is a handicap in getting jobs elsewhere." And he is not alone in his opinion. Sometimes the stories are noisy (see Liz Wahl and TruthDig), at other times the pressure makes people resign quietly. Fortunately, often still, it stirs up outrage and desire to fight back and work even harder to defend your truth.

2. Hordes of Western media outlets attempting to discredit our work.

In the course of just a couple of weeks, the Guardian alone published half a dozen articles about RT that could all be summed up as why the hell is Putin's propaganda poisoning the unwitting minds of the great British land?' I can't recall a single well-known Western news outlet that hasn't published a self-righteous sermon directed at RT. I doubt anyone else could either.