Russia Today is to be investigated by media regulator Ofcom over anti-western comments in a late-night discussion on Ukraine - its sixth ongoing inquiry into the Kremlin-backed news channel following complaints by viewers.
The regulator, which threatened Russia Today, or RT, with statutory sanctions after repeated breaches of broadcasting regulations on impartiality last year, faces a new investigation over its Crosstalk programme broadcast on 23 December last year.
The programme is understood to have featured a number of anti-western views in the discussion between the presenter and three studio guests, prompting one viewer to complain.
Comment: Gasp! Anti-Western views?!?!? No one is allowed to present an opinion that is anything other than glowing in praise towards the West. What was RT thinking?
RT was summoned to a meeting with Ofcom last year after four separate reports, all broadcast in March last year and all dealing with the situation in Ukraine, were judged to have breached the code governing UK broadcasters.
RT, which began broadcasting in the UK nine years ago and a launched a dedicated UK channel last year, has previously breached UK broadcasting regulations on 10 occasions on a wide range of issues, including due impartiality, graphic images, and issues related to advertising.
Put on notice by Ofcom since its most recent breach last November, if the channel is deemed to have breached due impartiality rules again the regulator will consider taking further action, including the possibility of a fine.
It is the sixth ongoing investigation into RT and the third to relate to its coverage of events in Ukraine.
Ofcom was already investigating the channel's 13 July programme The Truthseeker: Genocide in Ukraine, which was broadcast on the RT channel in Europe but not in the UK, and its 18 July documentary, Ukraine's Refugees.
Separately, Ofcom launched two investigations into RT's Syria coverage, both relating to its broadcast, The Truthseeker: Media 'Staged' Syria Chem Attack, on 23 March last year.
The regulator is also looking into graphic images of an Isis gunman shooting a row of people, broadcast on RT on 20 August last year.
An Ofcom spokesman said: "Ofcom has launched an investigation into whether this programme about the situation in Ukraine, which included anti-western comments, was duly impartial."
A spokeswoman for RT said that Ofcom had assessed the channel's coverage of the crash of MH17 "with regards to bias and has not found any problems that merited investigation, nor any breach of standards".
Reader Comments
Wow! Expressing alternative views inconsistent with the zionist-anglo MSM's narrative about the Ukraine mandates an investigation of RT? For 'bias' and 'breach of standards"?
But the seemingly non-stop BULLSHIT and PROPAGANDA of the main UK broadcasters regarding the Ukraine and IS and countless other zionist-anglo coalition 'schemes' and 'projects' (i.e., endless fraudulent wars, occupations and false-flag attacks world-wide) are not only just fine, but are to be ENCOURAGED! (You know, like the lies about 'weapons of mass destruction' in Iraq forming the basis for that fraudulent war that annihilated millions of innocent Iraqis, all with most every of these same UK MSM bungholes wildly supporting those lies and the subsequent war crimes based thereon, and the open propaganda that made it all possible, and never apologizing for any of it, or the UK Ofcom 'investigating' any of it, apparently.)
Based on what I see and read in the UK media, it seems to me that the ONLY bias and standards that are tolerated in the UK MSM are completely consonant with and 100% SUPPORTIVE of rampant militarism, fascism, nazism and murderous neo-colonialism by the zionist-anglo coalition; while at the same time these very same UK MSM mouthpieces also seem to be collectively 100% OPPOSED to truthful reportage about virtually anything involving international multi-lateralism and peaceful coexistence with Russia, China and any other non-Western nation on the rise (BRICS especially.)
The simple fact of the matter is that America and the UK got to where they are today by hundreds of years of non-stop murder, pillage and occupation of other nations and peoples, all supported, by and large, by a sycophantic MSM. That they would continue the world-wide carnage and theft into the 21st century shows that these thieving, killing bastards can only survive by harming and stealing from others around the globe (and at home as well, by squeezing out their own middle classes and stealing away their collective assets via financial schemes from Wall Street and the City of London.).
In fact, if America, the UK and Israel (the "Troika of Evil") were to suddenly 'disappear' from the face of the Earth forever, I believe two things would likely happen:
1.) The world's remaining nations, might, just might, be able to live in peace with one another, lead by an EU/BRICS-based pan-Eurasian union that is inclusive, multilateral and based on respect and rationality, not on US/UK/NAZO 'full spectrum dominance' and military force; and
2.) At the moment the "Troika of Evil" vanished, an enormous, ecstatic collective CHEER heard all the way to Jupiter would erupt from the previously hapless inhabitants of our planet at finally realizing their life-long dream: a world free of zionist-anglo murder, mayhem and monetary manipulations that serve only to impoverish and enslave the rest of the world and leave the leaders of the zionist-anglo coalition even more enriched and powerful than before.
Welcome to Orwell Land (aka the Anglo-American Empire), where up is down, black is white, evil is good, and lying is telling the truth.
Nuland's speech was full of lies and nothing said ......RT tells the truth and investigated. Just more hypocrisy. If you don't like what you see or hear change the channel. When news gets out that USA wants RT shut down we all know where the truth is being spoken. If "they" don't like it I know where I will get my news. Keep up the good work
Doesn't FOX have a presence in UK???