bbc v. rt is a terrible comparison. bbc has a mandate to publicly educate, and it's for internal consumption. it has satellite stations, but it's all old colonies, and still for internal commonwealth consumption. rt is an international broadcaster that exists to present a russian perspective to the outside world.

bbc needs to be compared to russian language media, and my understanding is that russian language media can be quite critical. westerners may be a little offset by the nature of it (putin has taken a hit in the media for not invading ukraine and letting the russians there be harmed), but it's relatively open. not perfect, but relatively open.

rt needs to be compared to something like voice of america (dare i say radio free europe), which is completely uncritical pro-american hogwash.

i don't watch rt because i'm looking for stable analysis. i watch rt to get the different perspective to balance out the brainwashing. it seems kind of nihilistic, and not particularly up to utopian british press values, but the truth is that oksana is correct.