Steve Bloomfield's article (Broadcast views, 25 April) is hardly a balanced view of the Russia Today channel. I have not noticed any "conspiracy theories", still less the "antisemitism" ascribed to presenters, actually being aired.
RT is certainly not without fault but it is different: and it is this difference that is so important but, above all, so refreshing. If you are tired of the suffocating trivia, celebrity worship and deference to the super rich that takes up so much of mainstream news – and you wish to see a new and diverse range of reporters, presenting radically different views to those that are usually broadcast – then tune into RT.
The "impartiality" advised by Ofcom may distort the facts of contemporary conflict and much else; aggressors treated the same as victims, superstition given the same emphasis as science etc.
RT performs a valuable service by frequently broadcasting a trenchant critique of contemporary capitalism. The truly shocking facts of corporate greed and theft, together with the lacerating satire offered by Max Keiser in the Keiser Report, should be essential viewing these days.
This of course presents an amusing contradiction, considering the gangster capitalism that thrives in Russia today.
Peter Betts
Liverpool
• Steve Bloomfield deftly elides Rory Suchet's apparent suggestion that an argument exists, into Suchet's own "views", and thence into RT's. A neat job in innuendo-based propaganda – which kind of illustrates just the sort of thing RT tends to go on about.
Peter McKenna
Liverpool
