“I think one of the drivers let slip that there were Russian television people there. On one occasion earlier this year, after following the UN into the Syrian town of Idlib, a “no-go” zone experiencing “civil war”, Firth became at serious risk when word got out that representatives from Russia were in her party of nine. I have no sympathy for the government at all and I have said that from the beginning.” “You don’t want to live up to their ideas about being a Russian channel that is only covering it from the Russian side – because that is certainly not what I do. “Obviously being a Russian channel, having the Russian affiliation, was a big issue,” she says. Then, after establishing herself on home soil, she was made a foreign correspondent, travelling to areas across Europe and the Middle East.įirth says there can be added pressures working for a Russian channel – especially in Syria, where she has been on three separate occasions.
I know from the Russian correspondents I come into contact with that a fair amount of self-censorship comes into it.”Īfter initially working on the newsdesk Firth got a “lucky break” and became a correspondent. So it is different to the Russian internal media – how they operate I wouldn’t really know.
“We would not get away with not covering the Moscow protests and the Pussy Riot trial. “It’s different for RT because we are an English language news channel and we broadcast internationally,” she says. She admits there were some difficulties during her time in the capital – not least that she couldn’t speak a word of Russian – but insists that press freedom wasn’t one of them. Previously, she had only spent a week in Russia, having done some work experience at The Moscow Times. “There are a lot of conspiracy theories concerning RT but I personally have never come into contact with it and wouldn’t tolerate it.”įirth went to work in Moscow after doing a postgraduate investigative journalism course at City University London in 2009. I wouldn’t think twice about it.”ĭespite Russia’s poor reputation, Firth insists she has never once been asked to compromise her work. “When it comes to covering a story if anyone asked me to alter or drop something I’d be out. And in the US, Julia Ioffe, writing for the Columbia Journalism Review, claimed the station was conceived “to counter the anti-Russian bias the Kremlin saw in the Western media”.īut British Sara Firth, 27, a foreign correspondent for the station based in London, insists this perceived image is false. In the UK press, RT has been described as the “Kremlin propaganda channel” by The Guardian’s former Russia correspondent Luke Harding.
In the second half of 2012 Ofcom judged that the station, which broadcasts on Sky in the UK, breached the broadcasting code on impartiality for coverage in Egypt and then Syria. I don’t know what her issue is, I never have.” Parker later stated that she was “just heartbroken” over the comments.Kremlin-funded television station Russia Today (RT) has been getting a bad press recently.
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