Salmond, RT UK, and nationalist propaganda
Alex Salmond now has his own weekly show on RT UK, the British subsidiary of what used to be called Russia Today. This is good news, in the sense that it has further undermined Salmond’s credibility and has added to divisions within the SNP. RT is a propaganda channel for the Russian government. Not simply because it is funded by the Russian government, but first and foremost because that is what it understands its role to be. For Putin, a Russian-government-funded TV channel will promote the official government line on events and issues both inside and outside Russia. Thus, when Russia...