Quote Originally Posted by noheat View Post
nightly Russian news (which is the biggest draw for me) has had such amateurish news anchors that i haven't been able to watch.
Yes, they do make mistakes, (for example BBC is more flawless) but nothing extremely irritating. And if you turn on the TV and keep it on for a while, while doing things around the house as I sometimes do, then you notice that there is a lot of repetition.

But remember that many of the news readers are not native English speakers. It's a lot easier to trip up when you are speaking in a foreign language.

But it does a lot of stories on Europe, and it comes at it from a perspective that no other TV channel that I know of uses, and it's not worried about political correctness.

Another thing is that it shows Russia in a positive (or neutral) light.
If you watch any European news channel (BBC, CNN Int'l, France24 DW, EuroNews etc) you'll soon notice that Russia is almost exclusively mentioned in connection with military/security issues, "human rights", criminality or poverty.
Russia Today shows another picture.

Some might say that they are showing a more glossy side of Russia than what the reality is, and that it would not critisize the Russian government. I suspect there might be some truth to that, but it doesn't worry me overly. If I want to read the dirt on Russia there are plenty of other ways to get that.

I learnt a lot about things I didn't know of from that channel, for example stories from South America or Asia as well as regions of Russia that aren't familiar to me.

Another thing speaking in favour of this channel is that it does not have any commercials. I'd say it's my favourite news channel after the BBC.

There is s really hilarious economical debate programme which I thought was really awful when I first saw it, because of the totally obnoxious host. "Keiser Report" An ex Wall street trader and multi millionaire with some very interesting views on finance.