Steve Sweeney
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591 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Apr
Steve Sweeney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I have all the journalists from the major networks as individual journalists.
I have no problem with them, but...
How I ended up working for RT, for Russia Today, is I was working for a newspaper before I entered the world of broadcast journalism.
I was the international editor of a national daily newspaper in Britain for many years when the Ukraine conflict started.
the special military operation, I was covering that.
And I went to the western part of Ukraine to pick up.
There was a couple of stories I was chasing there.
I ended up in Lvov.
The Ukrainians tried to kidnap me, and I managed to make my escape from there, back out through Poland and then to Germany.
Why did they do that?
Simply because I was a journalist, it wasn't towing their narrative.
And the Ukraine conflict is the most propagandized war in history, in my view.
I mean, you look at what happened in even the Iraq war, there was kind of that space within the media field to criticize your government's policy.
When it came to Ukraine, that window or that gap narrowed to the point where
it was impossible because there was no space to offer anything that was different from the narrative of the western uh governments the british government the ukrainian government so if you were going there to actually do some proper journalism and i say that because you know with um uh all due respect to the those organizations the bbc cnn um sky news um you know the the times the telegraph channel four they were doing these kind of
they were all saying the exact same thing.
They were taking it in turns to stand on the top of the same hotel roof in Kiev or Lvov and repeat the line, repeat the line.
But they weren't actually seeing what was the reality on the ground.
They were just stenographers, essentially, these kind of...
copy and paste reports and it reached kind of insane levels in Britain I'm sure it was the same in the United States but Britain was they started demonising Vladimir Putin one of the craziest reports I saw was that Vladimir Putin has a an assistant that follows him around with a briefcase and every time he goes to the toilet they collect
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