Comment: In just 10 years, RT has done something astonishing: held up a mirror to the Western pathocracy for a global audience, and in the process done pretty serious damage to Pentagon's quest for 'full-spectrum dominance' - this is, after all, a war for people's minds above all else.
RT doesn't always get it right, of course, but we'd rate their truth frequency hit rate somewhere in the high 80s, whereas the vast majority of Western mainstream media languishes in the low teens.
So if you are gonna watch news on TV, ditch CNN, NBC, CBS, Fox, Sky, ABC, BBC, France24, ZDF et al, and tune into RT!
RT ranks among the top five most-viewed international news channels in Europe and the US, the biggest study yet of the Russian network's viewership by Ipsos reveals. Seventy million individuals switch to RT TV channels weekly, with 35 million watching daily.
The study was conducted by the world's third largest market research company, based in France, in 38 countries out of the 100+ where RT programming is available. The survey was taken between August-November 2015, just as RT was preparing to mark its 10th anniversary.
"Ipsos has decades of experience in international audience measurement, and we've worked with dozens of premier broadcasters from around the world. We are happy that RT chose Ipsos to conduct their biggest audience survey yet,"said Ipsos Connect MENAP CEO, Elie Aoun.
Europe is the region where RT has the largest audience, with 36 million people watching the channel weekly. Eleven million get their news from RT at least once a week in the Middle East and Africa. In India, Ipsos included only English-language viewers, who constitute about 10 percent of the country's population, and among them 7 million viewers watch RT weekly.
In the US, RT's weekly audience is above 8 million viewers, the study showed, which places the broadcaster among the top-5 international TV news channels.
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