Media analyst Konstantin von Eggert said he expected to see Assange interview Russian allies and anti-establishment guests such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez and left-leaning U.S. academic Noam Chomsky.
“Julian Assange is famous for his anti-American and anti-Western views, that is exactly why Russia Today is hiring him as a journalist,” said von Eggert, a commentator for Kommersant FM radio.
“So this partnership is logical…. It has nothing to do with freedom of speech or real journalism.”
Russia Today – whose YouTube channel has had a record half a billion viewers – made headlines a year ago when U.S. airports refused to put up one of its controversial advertisements.
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