[Regnum] On May 22, Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and the RT TV channel,responded to a question about RT’s accusations of propaganda with a Russian proverb.
In an interview with the French channel GPTV, Simonyan stated that the BBC and CNN channels, which themselves produce propaganda materials, often make such accusations.
“You know, there is a Russian proverb: ‘You can’t judge people by themselves.’ The biggest propagandists are the BBC, CNN, which even the president [ Donald Trump ] calls propagandists, they say that,” Simonyan said.
According to the editor-in-chief of RT, normal people would not speak the way the BBC and CNN do, and she does not consider it necessary to justify herself to abnormal people.
In March, Trump said CNN and MSNBC were political tools of the Democratic Party and that their actions were illegal. The head of the White House criticized the media for coordinating with each other, adding that they influence judges and help change laws.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on March 1, 2022, the largest American satellite provider DirecTV announced that it was excluding RT from its broadcasting program. Since March 3 of the same year, RT America has stopped broadcasting live. American journalist Tucker Carlson, in a conversation with his colleague Rick Sanchez, said that the then US administration violated the country's constitution with its ban.