{"id":265958,"date":"2017-05-29T17:45:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T21:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=265958"},"modified":"2020-11-16T14:46:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T19:46:56","slug":"macron-accuses-rt-and-sputnik-of-behaving-like-deceitful-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/macron-accuses-rt-and-sputnik-of-behaving-like-deceitful-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron accuses RT and Sputnik of \u2018behaving like deceitful propaganda\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
But of course, the main French media belonging to billionaires who support him are not doing any propaganda\u2026 lol<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron explained his team\u2019s decision to deny RT and Sputnik, both Moscow-based news outlets, accreditation during his campaign, by labeling the media outlets as \u201cpropaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t act like the media, like journalists. They behaved like deceitful propaganda,\u201d Macron told RT France head Xenia Fedorova during a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Versailles.<\/p>\n

“I have always had an exemplary relationship with foreign journalists, but they have to be real journalists,” explained Macron, who defeated Marine Le Pen in the second round of the election, earlier this month. “All foreign journalists, including Russian journalists, had access to my campaign.”<\/p>\n

Macron described RT and Sputnik as \u201corgans of influence and propaganda,\u201d adding that both \u201cproduced infamous counter-truths about him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vladimir Putin\u2019s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow \u201cdoes not agree\u201d with Macron\u2019s statements about the two news organizations.<\/p>\n

RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said that Macron\u2019s attack on a news outlet he disagrees with is a threat to freedom of speech.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the numerous accusations made throughout the duration of the French presidential campaign, to this day not a single example, not a single piece of evidence, has been presented to support the claims that RT spread any slander or \u2018fake news’ about Mr. Macron,\u201d Simonyan said in a statement. \u201cBy labeling any news reporting he disagrees with \u2018fake news,\u2019 President Macron sets a dangerous precedent that threatens both freedom of speech and journalism at large.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a joke,\u201d\u00a0Jean-Pierre Thomas, a Russian-French relations expert told RT from Paris.\u00a0\u201cEveryone knows, including Mr Macron that the media has to be diverse. In France, 99 percent of the media were campaigning for Macron, if we do not allow outside media, what is the point?\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month\u2019s accreditation delay for RT and Sputnik, which ended up becoming an outright refusal, provoked a heated reaction from Moscow.<\/p>\n

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova called it \u201cdeliberate and bare-faced discrimination against Russian media by the presidential candidate of a state that has historically been vigilant when it comes to free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simonyan accused Macron’s team back then of \u201cbuilding electoral campaign on lies about RT and Sputnik.\u201d<\/p>\n

Macron\u2019s campaign repeatedly accused Russia of interference in the election, claiming that Russian hackers attempted to gain access to its data, and impede the work of its website. A trove of communication purportedly from Macron\u2019s staff was leaked on the internet a day before the run-off election. Moscow has staunchly denied any interference.<\/p>\n

Despite an anticipated coolness in relations, the Russian president is one of the first world leaders to travel to Paris since Macron\u2019s convincing election win.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the pair spent three hours in what the French leader called a \u201cfrank exchange of views,\u201d which Putin said would lead to a \u201cqualitative\u201d improvement in relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n

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