This is the mother of all strawman arguments. I mean, in Norway, which leads the world in press freedom, some of the finest journalists work for NRK. Are you seriously comparing NRK to RT?
I used to take Greenwald seriously on some topics, and chalked up his more eccentric positions to being a contrarian. But this just goes too far especially if he actually believes it. So after this, no, I don't think he even deserves to be taken seriously at all.
RT isn't just state funded, it's state *controlled*. But then what's wrong about working for RT isn't that it's state controlled, it's the kind of state that controls it. Putin's regime is one of the planet's most ardent forces against human rights and democracy.
And I can already anticipate what switch will go off in Greenwald's brain at this point - "So is the US!" Well, the US promises human rights and fails its promise, meanwhile Putin's Russia doesn't even promise human rights, it openly despises it.
And you may think, "same difference" but then you'd be very wrong. To the people living under Putin's regime (or his bombs) it makes a difference. In the US, you can try and hold the government up to the promise. In Russia, you can't.
If Greenwald wants to create a moral equivalence here, in the spirit of being a contrarian, I'll just invite him to ponder what happens to Russian contrarians. They don't live very long.
