my wife grew up in the Soviet Union and when we tried to watch . @BBCNews for a while, we had to give up because it reminded her too much of Soviet newscasts: the cheesy clothes, postures, obvious propaganda... https://twitter.com/JonangusMackay/status/1278966103314706433">https://twitter.com/JonangusM...

she says she prefers RT because while it& #39;s obviously propaganda, they never tell people what to say. They just choose people likely to say things they agree with & let them loose. BBC, CNN, etc, are actually much more directly controlled.

this actually does correspond with my experience, no one at RT ever asks me what I& #39;m going to say before I go on air, but BBC & similar "mainstream" media invariably have a pre-interview where they go over your positions very carefully