A London-based reporter for Russia Today resigned Friday in protest over the networkâs coverage of the recent Malaysia Airlines plane crash.
Sara Firth, who has worked for RT since 2009, announced her resignation via Twitter, writing: âI resigned today from RT. I have huge respect for many in the team, but Iâm for the truth.â
Firth told Buzzfeed that she resigned because she the felt the Kremlin-funded news channel was trying to pin the blame for the apparent shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on the Ukrainian government.
âIt was the total disregard to the facts. We threw up eyewitness accounts from someone on the ground openly accusing the Ukrainian government, and a correspondent in the studio pulled up a plane crash before that the Ukrainian government had been involved in and said it was âworth mentioningâ,â Firth explained. âItâs not worth mentioning. Itâs Russia Today all over, itâs flirting with that border of overtly lying. Youâre not telling a lie, youâre just bringing something up. I didnât want to watch a story like that, where people have lost loved ones and weâre handling it like that.â
âI couldnât do it any more. Every single day weâre lying and finding sexier ways to do it.â
Meanwhile, someone in the US media thinks it’s just fine to ask PBO if any of this is Ukraine’s fault. Case rested.
Wonder how many “single days” of “lying and finding sexier ways to do it,” while being paid, that the RT reporter endured – before finding her conscience. I’m glad she finally did – but can’t help but wonder.
Meanwhile, the years of lying, cover-up and feeling ‘sexy’ about it, has brought us to exactly where we are today. So, yay, you resign, but the karma goes with you. (meaning this ‘journalist’).
Unfortunately, MP, there would be few people left in today’s media if they are resigned because too many lies were being told. And that would be the healthiest thing that could happen.
Malia loves ice cream, me too. FLOTUS french fries, Sasha pies or guacamole, and POTUS chips and guacamole. I have never tried guacamole, but I have to now. Bo and Sunny ??????
I’ve mostly caught up on TOD posts from yesterday and today, and let me add my voice to the chorus of “Thank God for TOD and TODville.” So much information and insights here. If it weren’t for TOD, we’d have to wade through the preening and posturing and willful avoidance of facts by our despicable WHPC. That’s an organization that needs to be deep-sixed now.
The President could not have been clearer that Russia/Putin is supplying arms, training and other support to the Ukrainian separatists. Could not have been clearer — ask any 4th grade class who watched/listened and they will tell you. Yet some WHPC idiot asked if PBO blames Ukraine? JHC, and they get paid for this idiocy.
Chips, if you’re still here, want to add my 2 cents re: Presidential optics.
There are certain events that eclipse all others in history, e.g., the assassination of JFK, Sept 11, 2001, etc.
Yesterday’s unspeakable catastrophe (glad that PBO referred to this catastrophe, rather than “tragedy” (it really bothered me when MSM referred to the Tucson massacre as a tragedy [heartbreaking fate, not a planned, murderous slaughter) will eclipse all other events that occurred then.
For example, I was an enormous fan of Aldous Huxley when I was growing up, but had no memory of hearing about his death… because he died on November 22, 1963.
I saw you dunk FLOTUS upside down into the guacamole and take a bite. Had POTUS in the other hand readied for the next round. hahahahaha. It is something about your words Chips. It creates pictures in my minds eye. Very talented skill and somewhat weird given the visual you just provided.
This is an unbelievable article! I’m going to add a small part of it, the whole article is incredible. If anyone had any doubt, this shows with absolute clarity that ELECTIONS MATTER!! Every vote counts. Vote BLUE!!!
6/18/01 Cordial Rivals: How Bush and Putin Became Friends. MUST read for Sen. Biden comments at the time! http://t.co/YkEToI1v8e#UniteBlue
….enator Biden, who met President Bush at the White House just before he left for Europe, questioned whether trust was the right word to use about Mr. Putin, a former operative of the K.G.B., the Soviet intelligence service, and former head of Russia’s domestic intelligence service. At their news conference in Slovenia, Mr. Bush said of Mr. Putin: ”I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul.”
Senator Biden said that for his part, ”I don’t trust Mr. Putin; hopefully the president was being stylistic rather than substantive.”…
I’m up late – because it’s Saturday đ – but had to do a late comment on this one JoB – it hit our press and Mr 99 – who now knows to ask me of the truth of things from the US media – asked me if this was REALLY happening in the USA.
I cannot think of anything that would have more of a negative benefit to a city than turning off the water. They have truly gone mad.
I am going to have some this evening with my margarita. Now I am off to a funeral so I will have something to look forward too. Thank you Chips for this great place and for having the wisdom to see NW and all the other bt’s talents.
Oh Marilyn, so sorry to hear you’re going to a funeral. Thank you heaps for the lovely, kind words. Take care of yourself, and enjoy your chips, guacamole and margarita đ
My story about the first time I made guacamole is from the first year I was married was in 1968. My new husband was in the Air Force. He was in language school in Monterey, CA. He invited his entire class to our place for the first Thanksgiving meal I had ever made. I was in fear of an epic failure. I bought avocados for guacamole dip for the appetizer. I knew not what I was doing and did not add any lemon juice and the guacamole turned black. All the guys ate it anyway without complaining.
Oh…my they’re actually having a live Lion King opening number – “Circle of Life” đ đ Very nice! The kids looked totally thrilled…what a nice surprise!!
Okay, if that doesn’t give the HRC folks pause, I don’t know what will. Chris Cizzilla has never been right about anything. And he’s doesn’t even have the luck of a broken clock. He’s just dead wrong 100% of the time. Be afraid, HRC folks, be very afraid….
Mayor Nutter’s administration and the city’s largest union presented arguments in Common Pleas Court today over whether the city has the right to impose contract terms to end five years of fruitless negotiations between the two sides.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
DIN DIN!!
DeeeeeeeeeeEeeeeeeffffffff!!
I love it when you scream my name in congratulations:) Morning to you, Missy!
đ MOOOOORNING!!!
Congrats DF
Thanks!
Congratulations df on First!
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/18/rt-reporter-quits-over-mh17-coverage-were-lying-and-finding-sexier-ways-to-do-it/
A London-based reporter for Russia Today resigned Friday in protest over the networkâs coverage of the recent Malaysia Airlines plane crash.
Sara Firth, who has worked for RT since 2009, announced her resignation via Twitter, writing: âI resigned today from RT. I have huge respect for many in the team, but Iâm for the truth.â
Firth told Buzzfeed that she resigned because she the felt the Kremlin-funded news channel was trying to pin the blame for the apparent shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on the Ukrainian government.
âIt was the total disregard to the facts. We threw up eyewitness accounts from someone on the ground openly accusing the Ukrainian government, and a correspondent in the studio pulled up a plane crash before that the Ukrainian government had been involved in and said it was âworth mentioningâ,â Firth explained. âItâs not worth mentioning. Itâs Russia Today all over, itâs flirting with that border of overtly lying. Youâre not telling a lie, youâre just bringing something up. I didnât want to watch a story like that, where people have lost loved ones and weâre handling it like that.â
âI couldnât do it any more. Every single day weâre lying and finding sexier ways to do it.â
Meanwhile, someone in the US media thinks it’s just fine to ask PBO if any of this is Ukraine’s fault. Case rested.
Congrats on first, df!
Wonder how many “single days” of “lying and finding sexier ways to do it,” while being paid, that the RT reporter endured – before finding her conscience. I’m glad she finally did – but can’t help but wonder.
Meanwhile, the years of lying, cover-up and feeling ‘sexy’ about it, has brought us to exactly where we are today. So, yay, you resign, but the karma goes with you. (meaning this ‘journalist’).
Unfortunately, MP, there would be few people left in today’s media if they are resigned because too many lies were being told. And that would be the healthiest thing that could happen.
Live Now: President Obama at the Kids State Dinner
Congrats on 1st df!!!
Seems appropriate to repeat the following ….
#OWNthe114th
CSPAN link to the President’s comments http://www.c-span.org/video/?320539-2/president-obama-remarks-situation-ukraine
I’m kinda like that, too. I have a lot of restraint with most things but throw in a bunch of salsa, too, and I’m lost in the wilderness.
Ha. Both you and the President are cracking me up with all that! #GoodCompany
Malia loves ice cream, me too. FLOTUS french fries, Sasha pies or guacamole, and POTUS chips and guacamole. I have never tried guacamole, but I have to now. Bo and Sunny ??????
Were Sasha guacamole or salsa?
You have never tried quacamole!!!! I love anything avacados are in. I am an avacado fanatic.
Oh my……me too!!!!!!!!!! I can eat avacado totally plain, but it is better with some “flavoring” along with chips and salsa.
Were you one who tried to sprout the avacado pit? I tried many times and never got one to grow.
Oh how I love this man!
He can go from one agenda item to the next and be so appropriate and in the moment! {{{PBO}}}
OH MY GAWD, POTUS just rocked the mic at the Kids State Dinner!! He’s hilarious!!
And he also made the kids feel SO important.
BEST improv EVERRRRR!!
Thank you, God Almighty, for our President and First Lady, Mr. & Mrs. Obama.
Love them. Speak truth to power.
FLOTUS said she would fight for healthy school lunches for kids to the bitter end and it seem she meant every word.
I plead the fifth on all my weaknesses.
Me, too.
jacquelineoboomer, let’s hope Darrell Issa doesn’t call us.
Excellent NW! Even though I saw and heard it – I like being able to read what was said.
Thanks, GGail.
Thanks I missed it so am so glad you tweet the substance of what PBO said.
Happy Madiba Day!
Gazelle, have you gone to the Google page to see the beautiful tribute they created for Madiba. I love it!
thank you for your tweets…..
You’re welcome. PF. đ
Brilliant tweeting Nerdy, you capture the key lines every single time.
Thank you, Chips.
Nerdy, Thank you I love your tweets. I can’t get to hear live events on my computer, so I really appreciate your tweets.
Thanks, Sjterrid. Glad they helped.
I don’t know how you are able to get so much info out, with so few words. It takes me forever to just to write one short comment.
I don’t understand how Snyder is still ahead in the polls??
polls cannot be trusted…
OK, I’m bursting into tears with each of the tweets on the passengers on #MH17.
OH. HELL. YES.
She is so beautiful and full of life. I love her smile!!!
Flawless!!!
Translation: “Superstar in less than a year, Lupita Nyongo inspires the planet.”
Terry Moran â @TerryMoran
BREAKING: Shots fired by rebels at international team of investigators (OSCE) in Ukraine as they approach plane wreckage, via @KiritRadia
I’ve mostly caught up on TOD posts from yesterday and today, and let me add my voice to the chorus of “Thank God for TOD and TODville.” So much information and insights here. If it weren’t for TOD, we’d have to wade through the preening and posturing and willful avoidance of facts by our despicable WHPC. That’s an organization that needs to be deep-sixed now.
The President could not have been clearer that Russia/Putin is supplying arms, training and other support to the Ukrainian separatists. Could not have been clearer — ask any 4th grade class who watched/listened and they will tell you. Yet some WHPC idiot asked if PBO blames Ukraine? JHC, and they get paid for this idiocy.
Chips, if you’re still here, want to add my 2 cents re: Presidential optics.
There are certain events that eclipse all others in history, e.g., the assassination of JFK, Sept 11, 2001, etc.
Yesterday’s unspeakable catastrophe (glad that PBO referred to this catastrophe, rather than “tragedy” (it really bothered me when MSM referred to the Tucson massacre as a tragedy [heartbreaking fate, not a planned, murderous slaughter) will eclipse all other events that occurred then.
For example, I was an enormous fan of Aldous Huxley when I was growing up, but had no memory of hearing about his death… because he died on November 22, 1963.
Putin is angry about the new sanctions. So.
A friend of mine who now lives in Cleveland always buys avocados when he’s in SoCal (I live in the avocado capital of the US, I think.)
He says they ripen on the plane trip back — must have something to do with the air pressure, but it’s that cool?
Their ability to be adorable and hideously cute and hysterical knows no bounds!!
I could eat them. Like guacamole and chips đ
hahhahahaha is it strange that I could see you doing that Chips? hahahahahahaha
Well, it’s a little bit strange, yes Nospin đ
I saw you dunk FLOTUS upside down into the guacamole and take a bite. Had POTUS in the other hand readied for the next round. hahahahaha. It is something about your words Chips. It creates pictures in my minds eye. Very talented skill and somewhat weird given the visual you just provided.
Oi, you calling me a cannibal?????
And SALSA!!
STOP!!!!!!!!!
I’m driving myself crazy!
This is even worse than LL’s menus. I am in tears. And my guacamole and chips and salsa won’t arrive until tomorrow đĽ
I don’t know how we’re going to make it alive. Can’t Danny fetch???????
He totally can – but do you think my chips and guacamole would come back uneaten?!
This is an unbelievable article! I’m going to add a small part of it, the whole article is incredible. If anyone had any doubt, this shows with absolute clarity that ELECTIONS MATTER!! Every vote counts. Vote BLUE!!!
….enator Biden, who met President Bush at the White House just before he left for Europe, questioned whether trust was the right word to use about Mr. Putin, a former operative of the K.G.B., the Soviet intelligence service, and former head of Russia’s domestic intelligence service. At their news conference in Slovenia, Mr. Bush said of Mr. Putin: ”I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul.”
Senator Biden said that for his part, ”I don’t trust Mr. Putin; hopefully the president was being stylistic rather than substantive.”…
Yes, I do remember that encounter and statement from GW
gotta go for awhile, so something for you dog lovers before I go
That is a beautiful dog.
Can’t speak for his behavior đ
This is a disgrace so monumental that it takes my breath away.
What kind of country allows a city to shut off water to its residents?
I’m up late – because it’s Saturday đ – but had to do a late comment on this one JoB – it hit our press and Mr 99 – who now knows to ask me of the truth of things from the US media – asked me if this was REALLY happening in the USA.
I cannot think of anything that would have more of a negative benefit to a city than turning off the water. They have truly gone mad.
How insightful of you Tom
Yes.
He should of been reading all or Bobfr’s tweets he was sending out to the media since the Maiden protests in Ukraine, then he would would have known.
I am soooooooo hungry for chips and guacamole right now đŚ
I am going to have some this evening with my margarita. Now I am off to a funeral so I will have something to look forward too. Thank you Chips for this great place and for having the wisdom to see NW and all the other bt’s talents.
Oh Marilyn, so sorry to hear you’re going to a funeral. Thank you heaps for the lovely, kind words. Take care of yourself, and enjoy your chips, guacamole and margarita đ
Tell me about it!!!!
Me too now! And lunch is quite a ways away!!!
My story about the first time I made guacamole is from the first year I was married was in 1968. My new husband was in the Air Force. He was in language school in Monterey, CA. He invited his entire class to our place for the first Thanksgiving meal I had ever made. I was in fear of an epic failure. I bought avocados for guacamole dip for the appetizer. I knew not what I was doing and did not add any lemon juice and the guacamole turned black. All the guys ate it anyway without complaining.
Oh…my they’re actually having a live Lion King opening number – “Circle of Life” đ đ Very nice! The kids looked totally thrilled…what a nice surprise!!
And it was beautifully performed. That Lion King was not bad looking đ
You’re lusting after a lion, GGail? đŻ
Um, uh, Chips, not that one!
This one looks like it has a different kind of “hunger”
ROFL!!!
First the World Cup, now lion-love. đ
Ahhh, my new first love…the World Cup đ
See above for my comments on avocados and yesterday’s optics.
P.S. If Ventura County CA is not avocado capital of US, it does produce more than Cleveland OH, LOL.
đ Oh Arapaho415, STOP – I’m aching for avocado/chips/guacamole now! Have just added them to my shopping list!!!
FLOTUS taking a break from french fries.
LOL – I’m enjoying the little side production of Lion King at the White House đ
Me too hopefruit2.
OMG….LION KING!!!!!!!
That was a terrific show, and a great treat for those kids. đ đ
Given some of the video I saw, yesterday, this is a relevant warning ….
Passports……
One more thing for the shocked, horrified and grieving families to deal with.
Just too sad for words.
Okay, if that doesn’t give the HRC folks pause, I don’t know what will. Chris Cizzilla has never been right about anything. And he’s doesn’t even have the luck of a broken clock. He’s just dead wrong 100% of the time. Be afraid, HRC folks, be very afraid….
“Chris Cizzilla has never been right about anything. And heâs doesnât even have the luck of a broken clock”
Hopefruit? Drop the mic, right now.
đ đ đ
hopefruit2, was that statement made in 2008?
Exactly!
The fact is nobody is running right now
Mayor Nutter’s administration and the city’s largest union presented arguments in Common Pleas Court today over whether the city has the right to impose contract terms to end five years of fruitless negotiations between the two sides.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/cityhall/City-and-DC-33-have-their-first-of-many-days-in-court.html#Oe77CrxR2yYDVd6r.99
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/07/18/president-obama-speaks-on-ukraine/
And we feel it!!