Words matter. These are the best Margarita Simonyan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Apparently, all foreign media organisations have to follow an approved script of acceptable coverage, lest they are accused of interference. And make no mistake: we’re not talking about neutrality. The only acceptable approach was, ‘Support Clinton, attack Trump’.
There’s a huge generational gap between the Soviet-school journalists and the new journalists. We were not brought up working on propaganda; we were brought up in the new Russia, working on the news.
All of the mainstream French media – all of them – were jumping out of their pants to make people vote for Macron – all of them.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the television businesses found it was easier to hire 16- or 18-year-olds and teach them everything from the beginning rather than re-teach the old-school folk.
Not a single story on ‘BBC World News’ is any different from the British foreign policy.
If I saw and if I really sincerely thought that what Putin is doing is harmful for my country and for my people and it needs to be stopped, I wouldn’t hesitate to do that.
The disgusting truth is that some of the less-educated families in the Caucasus hate and despise Russians simply because they are Russian, just as some less-educated Russian families feel the same way about people from the Caucasus.
When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there’s no freedom at all, we can’t say whatever, which is absolutely, absolutely, completely untrue.
I have two children, and I’m very, very peaceful.
I don’t understand why any country is given a chance to make its point of view seen and heard by the world, and Russia is not given that chance.
Not too many people out there are interested in Russia so much that they really want to watch things about Russia and only about Russia.
Somehow it did not occur to us that, in a developed democracy, regular media advertising could turn out to be a suspicious and harmful activity.
To all the self-righteous defenders of ‘freedom of speech’ who oh-so-ardently proclaimed that FARA registration places no restrictions whatsoever on RT’s journalistic work in the U.S.: Withdrawal of Congressional credentials speaks much louder than empty platitudes.
I don’t like wars. Any wars.
Believe me, most of the people in Russia are seeing the West as a threat.
We congratulate American freedom of speech and all who still believe in it.
We never make editorial decisions with people who are working closely with Vladimir Putin, unless you consider myself a person who is working closely with Vladimir Putin.
It’s impossible to start making a weapon only when the war already started!
American TV news is much more sophisticated. I think that American TV networks, it looks like, they invest a lot into news.
The U.S. has made a lot of mistakes all over the world… look at Iraq. The country that makes such mistakes do not have the moral right to teach the world.
I’m a journalist. I’ve been a journalist ever since I was 18.
Twitter has revealed some monstrous information in Congress: we spent money on our ad campaigns. Just as all the usual media organizations in the world do.
I lived in America. I love America.
It is high time Western establishments stopped blaming Russia for all their problems.
I’m so tired of this argument that all we ever do is under Kremlin orders and so and so forth. Tell me, how is it possible? I am not on the air. If you watch RT, you will see that all of our shows are hosted by people to whom it would be impossible to tell them anything.
We want to develop into a really trusted name that people turn to because they want to know what’s going on in the country.
All of the people who work in the Russian government and Russian presidential administration, in this way or another, work for Vladimir Putin.
Being government funded does not necessarily mean being biased, just like being privately funded does not necessarily mean being independent.
When we were a quiet, little-noticed channel telling stories from Russia, our audience was negligible. When we started being really provocative… our audience started to grow.
When the world normalizes, everything is going to be fine with RT. When the U.S. and Russia get along again – and I don’t see any deep reasons why we shouldn’t get along… we are going to work normally like a normal news organization.
British media supported Hillary. No problem with that. No interference. Nothing. French media supported Hillary. No problem with that. Some Russian media supported Trump: ‘Oh my God!’
It’s time to wake up to the reality that ignoring the genuine concerns of the ‘fringe,’ until it becomes the majority, is patently ridiculous. That the scapegoating of alternative opinions doesn’t work.
Russia has never been very good at explaining itself to foreigners.
When Russia is at war, we are, of course, on Russia’s side.
The American Justice Department has left us with no choice. Our lawyers say that if we don’t register as a foreign agent, the director of our company in America could be arrested, and the accounts of the company could be seized.
