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US-funded international media is worth the tiny cost — we can’t surrender to America’s enemies in the war of ideas
From my first stint leading Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty — the iconic Cold War broadcaster turned 21st-century digital-media company — I recall FSB agents taunting our journalists across the Russian Federation. Come work for RT, the Kremlin’s propaganda outlet, they’d say; we pay decent wages, offer proper benefits and take you seriously in ways the...
From my first stint leading Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty — the iconic Cold War broadcaster turned 21st-century digital-media company — I recall FSB agents taunting our journalists across the Russian Federation. Come work for RT, the Kremlin’s propaganda outlet, they’d say; we pay decent wages, offer proper benefits and take you seriously in ways the...
