Seth Freedman has written a great piece for Comment is Free. In it he demolishes any lingering shreds of an argument that Press TV could be described as anything other than a propaganda mouthpiece for the Iranian state. In the line of fire is anybody who continues to defend that sorry shoddy station.
When Press TV was launched two years ago, Yvonne Ridley, one of the station’s presenters, was effusive in her praise of her paymasters: “I see it as an antidote to Fox TV that will give a different perspective to the coverage that you get from the mainstream media. It’s not shock TV, tabloid TV or propaganda promoting reactionaryism.”