Exhibit A: Media coverage of Trump vs Hillary election in USA. Any neutral observer could see how blindly mainstream media in USA is biased against Trump.
Exhibit B: Mainstream media in west apologizing for Islamofascism for a decade and half, and still doing so but in a covert manner as today no one buy lies of Islam not being an violent expansionist cult. (The whole sham of "religion of peace" run by mainstream media since 2001)
Exhibit C: The demonization of Russia (including ridicule and fear mongering over passage of their carrier through English channel which is international water and shortest path for passage to Syria from Russia) and Assad, even though opponents of Assad are even worse than him (not saying Assad is an angel)
Your personal assessment and opinion of 'western media', which is an opague and ill-defined term, does not constitute evidence. Besides, its non-specific in a variety of ways.
Rest of the media is also guilty of everything that "Columbia School of Journalism" accused RT of. It is just that 'Columbia' school of 'Journalism' would never call out their peers at MNSBC, CNN, BBC et al; which apart from being more biased than RT, also claim to be neutral.
So you claim. That (student-initated, graduate) project actually looked at whether there was any factual basis for elitist 'RT bashing'. It helps if you actually look at the project.
Then what is your problem with RT?
Western media do propaganda and only do propaganda, so does RT. RT is an alternative source of propaganda so that you could hear both sides.
I don't have a problem with RT, I have a problem with people who take what RT puts out blindly as truthfull or unbiased. And for several reason, including state ownership/funding and level of journalistic reporting integrity, that may be worse of an error than to see and compare media of one or more Western (European) countries of which it is know that some are left, other right, and yet others more directed at one demographic or another.
And being fluent in multiple languages does not mean anything when pattern of bias in all languages is same.
Sure. Dependence on English language media doesn't mean anything, right?
In a work related context, as a Dutchman, if you are dependent on English speaking management literature for knowing your field, you miss out on some very interesting and notably different traditions and perspectives in e.g. French and German management literature, a significant portion of which is only made available in the local languages.
Ever looked up information on military hardware development? If is very enriching when you can also go through source documentation in e.g German, French, Spanish, to name but a few other major languages. Likewise, with media. You do not think it make a difference when you can actually read foreign media in the original language (which also means you have better access to e.g. what regional and local media pay attention to and how, which is far more informative as far as probing 'grass roots'-sentiments.
Anglo-Saxon and vernacular media is western Europe is controlled by same interests so bias of mainstream media is same on both continents, and rest of the media do not care enough about Europe to deeply analyse their suicidal tendencies (which are just homicidal tendencies driven onto self).
How would you be able to assess this without being able to actually read e.g. a German or Italy [put any country here] newspaper. How would you know if there is/isn't any difference between English- and local-language versions of the same media?
As for suicide data, please do not start again the kind of lame-***, fake discussion like Sweden has the highest rate incidence of rape again, which originates from how Swedes define and count sexual abuse. Likewise, there are established criminologial explanations of why suicide rates in some countries gets reported more accurate in some countries and not at all in other countries (and culture has a lot to do with hiding unwanted social data)
Perhaps you find this interesting:
http://www.journalism.org/2014/10/2...tinct-favorites-emerge-on-the-left-and-right/