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Abby Martin

January 01, 1970

This article is about the journalist. For other people with the name, see Abby Martin (disambiguation).

Abigail Suzanne Martin (born September 6, 1984) is an American journalist,[2][3] TV presenter, and activist. She helped found the citizen journalism website Media Roots and serves on the board of directors for the Media Freedom Foundation which manages Project Censored.[4][5] Martin appeared in the documentary film Project Censored The Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News (2013),[5] and co-directed 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013).[6]

Abby Martin
Martin in 2012
Born
Abigail Suzanne Martin

(1984-09-06) September 6, 1984 (age 39)
Oakland, California, U.S.[1]
EducationAmador Valley High School
Alma materSan Diego State University (BA)
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • activist
  • artist
  • director
  • author
Known for
SpouseMike Prysner
Children2

She hosted Breaking the Set on the Russian state-funded network RT America from 2012 to 2015, and then launched The Empire Files in that same year as an investigative documentary and interview series on Telesur, later released as a web series. In 2019, she released the film documentary, The Empire Files: Gaza Fights for Freedom.

Early life edit

Martin grew up in Pleasanton, California, where she attended Amador Valley High School, graduating in 2002.[7][8] She became interested in journalism when her old high school boyfriend enlisted in the military after the September 11 attacks in 2001. "I didn't want him going to war, let alone fighting in one," she recalls. "I began to critically ask 'What is really going on?'"[9] By the time she was a sophomore at San Diego State University, she began questioning what she called the "selling" of the Iraq War by the media.[9][7] She received an undergraduate degree in political science and minored in Spanish.

In 2004, she campaigned for John Kerry's presidential campaign, but became disillusioned with the left–right paradigm, a concept proposing that societies have a tendency to divide themselves into ideological opposites.[10] Martin worked for a time as an investigative journalist for a San Diego-based online news site until moving back to Northern California.[11][12]

9/11 truth movement edit

In 2008, Martin was active in the 9/11 truth movement,[13][14][15][16][17] a movement which disputes the consensus regarding the attacks of September 11, 2001. Martin set up her own "truther" group in San Diego, California.[18][19] That year, Martin said that the attacks of September 11 were "an inside job, and that our government was complicit in what happened".[20] In March 2014, Martin told the Associated Press that she "no longer subscribes" to conspiracy theories regarding the attacks.[21]

Media Roots edit

In 2009, Martin founded the organization Media Roots, a citizen journalism platform for reporting news.[22] As an independent journalist with Media Roots, Martin covered the Occupy Oakland actions during the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011.[23] Her documentary video footage of Occupy Oakland protests was used by the family of Scott Olsen, a 24-year-old former Marine and Iraq War veteran, in a lawsuit against the Oakland Police Department. Martin's footage was used to argue that the protests were non-violent at the time Olsen was allegedly hit in the head with a police projectile.[7][24] RT took notice of Martin's work and began using her as a correspondent.[25] In the fall of 2010, she moved to Washington, D.C.[26]

Breaking the Set and work for RT edit

From 2012 to 2015, Martin hosted her own show, Breaking the Set, on RT America.[27][28] The program described itself as "a show that cuts through the false left/right paradigm set by the establishment and reports the hard facts".[29] The original opening credits depict Martin applying a sledgehammer to a television tuned to CNN.[30]

Shortly after beginning her show on RT, Martin stated in an interview with Mark Crispin Miller that "the media dismisses things that are too controversial as conspiracy theory".[31]

In 2014, Martin gained attention for her criticism of RT's coverage of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. Martin closed her show on March 3, 2014, with a minute-long statement condemning the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.[32][33][34][35] Glenn Greenwald compared Martin's statement favorably to the unquestioning behavior of the United States media during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[36] Critics of Martin argue that she appeared to be reading from a teleprompter, implying that her remarks were made with the consent of the show's producers.[37][38] RT issued a statement saying: "Contrary to the popular opinion, RT doesn't beat its journalists into submission, and they are free to express their own opinions, not just in private but on the air."[39] RT added: "[W]e'll be sending her to Crimea to give her an opportunity to make up her own mind from the epicentre of the story." Martin declined the offer, saying, "I am not going to Crimea despite the statement RT has made."[40] The New York Times wrote that RT notified Martin that what she had said about Ukraine was "not in line with our editorial policy".[41]

Martin left RT in February 2015.[17] Speaking for RT, Anna Belkina told BuzzFeed: "Abby decided that this is the time for her to try something new. We are proud of the great work she has done as the host of Breaking the Set."[17][42]

Martin called the charges of foreign control over her and Tulsi Gabbard "neo-McCarthyist hysteria" typical of the New Cold War. She said that the "campaign to malign RT" by "the corporate media" had resulted in a chilling effect over legitimate dissident reporters. She said that she had "complete editorial control" over her RT show, as did other American RT journalists like Chris Hedges and Lee Camp.[43] She had earlier refused RT's offer to send her on a tour of Crimea, saying she didn't want a "vetted PR experience."[17]

The Empire Files edit

 
Abby Martin interviewing a member of the Green Cross [es] during the 2017 Venezuelan protests

In September 2015, Martin launched The Empire Files, an interview and documentary series. She has hosted guests including Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Richard D. Wolff, Ralph Nader and Jill Stein.[44]

The show was originally hosted by Telesur English, a media outlet sponsored primarily by the government of Venezuela. Martin told Ben Norton writing for AlterNet: "The show is totally independent of Telesur. We merely sell them the content; they have zero control over anything we do".[45] In 2018, Telesur stopped funding The Empire Files due to increasing US sanctions on Venezuela, according to a press release published by Martin's Media Roots website. Martin, her co-producer and husband Michael Prysner, and other Telesur contract journalists had their funding blocked by the application of United States sanctions against Venezuela.[46] Academic Stuart Davis cites the cancellation as an example of how United States sanctions hamper public funding of media production in Venezuela.[46]

In August 2018 the show moved to a donation model in order to continue production.[47] The show has since become a web series exclusively, with episodes being uploaded to Martin's website, YouTube and Vimeo. Released in May 2019, her feature film documentary, The Empire Files: Gaza Fights for Freedom, concerns the Gaza–Israel conflict.[48] It was shown in the US, UK and Australia at independent theatres.[49] In May 2021, Martin released the film for free on Youtube.

Free speech lawsuit edit

Main article: Anti-BDS laws § Abby Martin v. the State of Georgia

In February 2020, Martin's booking to speak at a conference at Georgia Southern University on Critical Media Literacy was canceled when she refused to sign a pledge not to boycott Israel as required by law in the State of Georgia. Martin, represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, filed a free-speech lawsuit against the State of Georgia.[50] The conference was later canceled.[51]

In May 2021, in a federal court hearing in Georgia, District Judge Mark Cohen ruled in Martin's favor when he found that a law created to discourage the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement was in violation of the First Amendment.[52][53] Judge Cohen ruled that Georgia's law "prohibits inherently expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment."[54]

Reception edit

Millennial Magazine said that Martin was an "unfiltered" media representative for the Millennial generation who reports "stories that deserve public recognition".[55] Journalist Michael C. Moynihan states that "Martin's politics are odious and frequently incoherent" for claiming to lament "lost American freedom" while ignoring the multiple brutalities of the Russian government before its invasion of Crimea and her defense of Hugo Chávez against the charge of tyranny.[56]

James Kirchick, in a 2015 article for The Daily Beast, commented: "Thanks to her paymasters in the Kremlin, she had three years to use the network's airwaves and wildly popular YouTube channel to broadcast paranoid diatribes that would otherwise have languished in anonymity on the Internet fringe."[57] Regarding her work on Venezuela, libertarian journalist and author John Stossel states that Martin "does government-funded propaganda for Telesur".[58]

Martin has been criticized for her past support of the 9/11 truth movement. In 2014 New York Times columnist Robert Mackey contrasted Martin's critical remarks on the Russian annexation of Crimea with her conviction "that the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were part of a government conspiracy."[59] Author and media consultant Chez Pazienza criticized Martin for being a 9/11 Truther.[60]

David Cromwell, British media campaigner of and co-editor of Media Lens, states that Martin is a "superb independent journalist ... who has risked her life to report what the corporate media is not telling you about Venezuela".[61]

Personal life edit

Martin is married to her Empire Files co-producer, Mike Prysner, an Iraq War veteran.[62][63] Martin gave birth to their first child on May 31, 2020.[64] They have a second child, born on January 29, 2023.[65]

Selected work edit

Film edit

  • Earth's Greatest Enemy (2021)
  • Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019), director[66]
  • The Choice Is Ours (2016), as herself[67]
  • 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013), co-director[68]
  • Project Censored the Movie (2013), as herself[69]

Books edit

  • Martin, Abby. (2011). Framing the Messengers: Junk Food News and News Abuse for Dummies. In Mickey Huff (Ed.) Censored 2012: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2010–11. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1609803582.
  • Martin, Abby. (2011). Media Democracy in Action. In Mickey Huff (Ed.) Censored 2012: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2010–11. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1609803582.
  • Martin, Abby. (2015). The Unheard Story of Hurricane Katrina, Blackwater, White Militias & Community Empowerment: An interview with scott crow and Malik Rahim. In scott crow (Ed.) Emergency Hearts, Molotov Dreams: A scott crow Reader. GTK Press. ISBN 9780996546003.
  • Martin, Abby (2018) Project Censored. Foreword by Abby Martin.

Radio edit

  • Project Censored, KPFA (94.1 FM), co-host[70]

References edit

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  3. ^ MacLeod, Alan (April 24, 2019). "Introduction". Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent. Routledge. ISBN 9780429772627.
  4. ^ Huff, Mickey. (2012). Censored 2013: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2011-2012. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1609804236. p. 280.
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  6. ^ Anderson, John. (January 22, 2013). Review: '99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film'. Variety. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
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  20. ^ Kirchick, James (March 4, 2014). "RT Anchors Riff Not as 'Rogue' as it Seems". Tablet. Retrieved July 28, 2019. On her program, she regularly gives air to outrageous conspiracy theories, including the notion that water fluoridation is a pernicious government plot to poison unsuspecting American citizens
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    Bidder's article also appeared in other news outlets, such as "A anti-CNN russa na guerra das imagens" [Russian anti-CNN in the war of images]. O Estado de S. Paulo (in Portuguese). Brazil. September 1, 2013. from the original on September 2, 2013.
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  37. ^ Krishnan, Joe (March 4, 2014). "Ukraine crisis: Russia Today TV host goes off-message with attack on intervention in Crimea". The Independent. from the original on March 23, 2014. However, sharp-eyed viewers may have noticed that she was reading from the auto-cue and, therefore, presumably had permission from producers of the show to express her beliefs.
  38. ^ Graef, Aileen (March 4, 2014). "RT news anchor speaks out against Russian intervention". UPI. from the original on March 23, 2014. Media analysts say that Martin was reading from a teleprompter and therefore more than likely had her producer's consent
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  63. ^ "Antiwar Sentiment in the Military Is Stronger Than Ever." An interview with Mike Prysner, jacobinmag.com, August 19, 2021: "Prysner founded the organization March Forward! in 2008. Today, he's an antiwar journalist, having cowritten and produced multiple documentaries for the program The Empire Files, hosted by his wife, Abby Martin."
  64. ^ Mike Prysner: Early Sunday @AbbyMartin: gave birth to our child. She went into labor marching 9mos pregnant all day with #BlackLivesMatter in Beverly Hills., twitter.com, June 2, 2020
  65. ^ Mike Prysner [@MikePrysner] (February 2, 2023). "On Sunday @AbbyMartin gave birth to our second child :) Abby & baby are doing great and I'm in awe of how amazing they both are 💕" (Tweet). Retrieved April 13, 2023 – via Twitter.
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This article is about the journalist For other people with the name see Abby Martin disambiguation Abigail Suzanne Martin born September 6 1984 is an American journalist 2 3 TV presenter and activist She helped found the citizen journalism website Media Roots and serves on the board of directors for the Media Freedom Foundation which manages Project Censored 4 5 Martin appeared in the documentary film Project Censored The Movie Ending the Reign of Junk Food News 2013 5 and co directed 99 The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film 2013 6 Abby MartinMartin in 2012BornAbigail Suzanne Martin 1984 09 06 September 6 1984 age 39 Oakland California U S 1 EducationAmador Valley High SchoolAlma materSan Diego State University BA OccupationsJournalistactivistartistdirectorauthorKnown forMedia Roots Breaking The Set RT America Project Censored The Empire Files Telesur English News Beat AMBS TV SpouseMike PrysnerChildren2 She hosted Breaking the Set on the Russian state funded network RT America from 2012 to 2015 and then launched The Empire Files in that same year as an investigative documentary and interview series on Telesur later released as a web series In 2019 she released the film documentary The Empire Files Gaza Fights for Freedom Contents 1 Early life 2 9 11 truth movement 3 Media Roots 4 Breaking the Set and work for RT 5 The Empire Files 6 Free speech lawsuit 7 Reception 8 Personal life 9 Selected work 9 1 Film 9 2 Books 9 3 Radio 10 References 11 External linksEarly life editMartin grew up in Pleasanton California where she attended Amador Valley High School graduating in 2002 7 8 She became interested in journalism when her old high school boyfriend enlisted in the military after the September 11 attacks in 2001 I didn t want him going to war let alone fighting in one she recalls I began to critically ask What is really going on 9 By the time she was a sophomore at San Diego State University she began questioning what she called the selling of the Iraq War by the media 9 7 She received an undergraduate degree in political science and minored in Spanish In 2004 she campaigned for John Kerry s presidential campaign but became disillusioned with the left right paradigm a concept proposing that societies have a tendency to divide themselves into ideological opposites 10 Martin worked for a time as an investigative journalist for a San Diego based online news site until moving back to Northern California 11 12 9 11 truth movement editIn 2008 Martin was active in the 9 11 truth movement 13 14 15 16 17 a movement which disputes the consensus regarding the attacks of September 11 2001 Martin set up her own truther group in San Diego California 18 19 That year Martin said that the attacks of September 11 were an inside job and that our government was complicit in what happened 20 In March 2014 Martin told the Associated Press that she no longer subscribes to conspiracy theories regarding the attacks 21 Media Roots editIn 2009 Martin founded the organization Media Roots a citizen journalism platform for reporting news 22 As an independent journalist with Media Roots Martin covered the Occupy Oakland actions during the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 23 Her documentary video footage of Occupy Oakland protests was used by the family of Scott Olsen a 24 year old former Marine and Iraq War veteran in a lawsuit against the Oakland Police Department Martin s footage was used to argue that the protests were non violent at the time Olsen was allegedly hit in the head with a police projectile 7 24 RT took notice of Martin s work and began using her as a correspondent 25 In the fall of 2010 she moved to Washington D C 26 Breaking the Set and work for RT editFrom 2012 to 2015 Martin hosted her own show Breaking the Set on RT America 27 28 The program described itself as a show that cuts through the false left right paradigm set by the establishment and reports the hard facts 29 The original opening credits depict Martin applying a sledgehammer to a television tuned to CNN 30 Shortly after beginning her show on RT Martin stated in an interview with Mark Crispin Miller that the media dismisses things that are too controversial as conspiracy theory 31 In 2014 Martin gained attention for her criticism of RT s coverage of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation Martin closed her show on March 3 2014 with a minute long statement condemning the Russian military intervention in Ukraine 32 33 34 35 Glenn Greenwald compared Martin s statement favorably to the unquestioning behavior of the United States media during the 2003 invasion of Iraq 36 Critics of Martin argue that she appeared to be reading from a teleprompter implying that her remarks were made with the consent of the show s producers 37 38 RT issued a statement saying Contrary to the popular opinion RT doesn t beat its journalists into submission and they are free to express their own opinions not just in private but on the air 39 RT added W e ll be sending her to Crimea to give her an opportunity to make up her own mind from the epicentre of the story Martin declined the offer saying I am not going to Crimea despite the statement RT has made 40 The New York Times wrote that RT notified Martin that what she had said about Ukraine was not in line with our editorial policy 41 Martin left RT in February 2015 17 Speaking for RT Anna Belkina told BuzzFeed Abby decided that this is the time for her to try something new We are proud of the great work she has done as the host of Breaking the Set 17 42 Martin called the charges of foreign control over her and Tulsi Gabbard neo McCarthyist hysteria typical of the New Cold War She said that the campaign to malign RT by the corporate media had resulted in a chilling effect over legitimate dissident reporters She said that she had complete editorial control over her RT show as did other American RT journalists like Chris Hedges and Lee Camp 43 She had earlier refused RT s offer to send her on a tour of Crimea saying she didn t want a vetted PR experience 17 The Empire Files edit nbsp Abby Martin interviewing a member of the Green Cross es during the 2017 Venezuelan protests In September 2015 Martin launched The Empire Files an interview and documentary series She has hosted guests including Chris Hedges Noam Chomsky Richard D Wolff Ralph Nader and Jill Stein 44 The show was originally hosted by Telesur English a media outlet sponsored primarily by the government of Venezuela Martin told Ben Norton writing for AlterNet The show is totally independent of Telesur We merely sell them the content they have zero control over anything we do 45 In 2018 Telesur stopped funding The Empire Files due to increasing US sanctions on Venezuela according to a press release published by Martin s Media Roots website Martin her co producer and husband Michael Prysner and other Telesur contract journalists had their funding blocked by the application of United States sanctions against Venezuela 46 Academic Stuart Davis cites the cancellation as an example of how United States sanctions hamper public funding of media production in Venezuela 46 In August 2018 the show moved to a donation model in order to continue production 47 The show has since become a web series exclusively with episodes being uploaded to Martin s website YouTube and Vimeo Released in May 2019 her feature film documentary The Empire Files Gaza Fights for Freedom concerns the Gaza Israel conflict 48 It was shown in the US UK and Australia at independent theatres 49 In May 2021 Martin released the film for free on Youtube Free speech lawsuit editMain article Anti BDS laws Abby Martin v the State of Georgia In February 2020 Martin s booking to speak at a conference at Georgia Southern University on Critical Media Literacy was canceled when she refused to sign a pledge not to boycott Israel as required by law in the State of Georgia Martin represented by the Council on American Islamic Relations filed a free speech lawsuit against the State of Georgia 50 The conference was later canceled 51 In May 2021 in a federal court hearing in Georgia District Judge Mark Cohen ruled in Martin s favor when he found that a law created to discourage the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions BDS movement was in violation of the First Amendment 52 53 Judge Cohen ruled that Georgia s law prohibits inherently expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment 54 Reception editMillennial Magazine said that Martin was an unfiltered media representative for the Millennial generation who reports stories that deserve public recognition 55 Journalist Michael C Moynihan states that Martin s politics are odious and frequently incoherent for claiming to lament lost American freedom while ignoring the multiple brutalities of the Russian government before its invasion of Crimea and her defense of Hugo Chavez against the charge of tyranny 56 James Kirchick in a 2015 article for The Daily Beast commented Thanks to her paymasters in the Kremlin she had three years to use the network s airwaves and wildly popular YouTube channel to broadcast paranoid diatribes that would otherwise have languished in anonymity on the Internet fringe 57 Regarding her work on Venezuela libertarian journalist and author John Stossel states that Martin does government funded propaganda for Telesur 58 Martin has been criticized for her past support of the 9 11 truth movement In 2014 New York Times columnist Robert Mackey contrasted Martin s critical remarks on the Russian annexation of Crimea with her conviction that the attacks of Sept 11 2001 were part of a government conspiracy 59 Author and media consultant Chez Pazienza criticized Martin for being a 9 11 Truther 60 David Cromwell British media campaigner of and co editor of Media Lens states that Martin is a superb independent journalist who has risked her life to report what the corporate media is not telling you about Venezuela 61 Personal life editMartin is married to her Empire Files co producer Mike Prysner an Iraq War veteran 62 63 Martin gave birth to their first child on May 31 2020 64 They have a second child born on January 29 2023 65 Selected work editFilm edit Earth s Greatest Enemy 2021 Gaza Fights For Freedom 2019 director 66 The Choice Is Ours 2016 as herself 67 99 The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film 2013 co director 68 Project Censored the Movie 2013 as herself 69 Books edit Martin Abby 2011 Framing the Messengers Junk Food News and News Abuse for Dummies In Mickey Huff Ed Censored 2012 The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2010 11 Seven Stories Press ISBN 1609803582 Martin Abby 2011 Media Democracy in Action In Mickey Huff Ed Censored 2012 The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2010 11 Seven Stories Press ISBN 1609803582 Martin Abby 2015 The Unheard Story of Hurricane Katrina Blackwater White Militias amp Community Empowerment An interview with scott crow and Malik Rahim In scott crow Ed Emergency Hearts Molotov Dreams A scott crow Reader GTK Press ISBN 9780996546003 Martin Abby 2018 Project Censored Foreword by Abby Martin Radio edit Project Censored KPFA 94 1 FM co host 70 References edit Nemire Jessica March 21 2014 Talking with Oakland Born RT America Anchor Abby Martin About Art and Life SF Weekly archived from the original on March 23 2014 Born and raised in Pleasanton Martin grew up Bakir Vian April 17 2018 Chapter One Intelligence Elites and Civil Society Intelligence Elites and Public Accountability Relationships of Influence with Civil Society Routledge ISBN 9781351388955 MacLeod Alan April 24 2019 Introduction Propaganda in the Information Age Still Manufacturing Consent Routledge ISBN 9780429772627 Huff Mickey 2012 Censored 2013 The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2011 2012 Seven Stories Press ISBN 1609804236 p 280 a b Huff Mickey 2013 Censored 2014 Fearless Speech in Fateful Times The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2012 13 Seven Stories Press ISBN 1609804953 p 264 Anderson John January 22 2013 Review 99 The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film Variety Retrieved January 17 2014 a b c Martin Abby March 13 2012 Presentation on Citizen Journalism Media Literacy Corporate Propaganda amp Advocating Independent Journalism Project Censored San Francisco State University Ciardelli Dolores Fox September 6 2002 Leaving for college Pleasanton Weekly Retrieved January 22 2014 a b Koss Jeremy May June 2013 Real Talk SOMA Magazine 27 3 52 53 ISSN 0896 5005 Mckenty Doug September 12 2011 Interview with Abby Martin of Media Roots Thursday Morning Report KZYX Event occurs from 1 58 3 26 Archived August 1 2014 at the Wayback Machine Saportas Oriana August 4 2010 Interview with Abby Martin about Media Roots Berkeley Community Media Media Roots Kerkman Cassandra Mosco Oskar ed July 31 2012 MR Founder Abby Martin Activist Turned Journalist Media Roots Mackey Robert March 4 2014 Russia Today Host Has Roots in 9 11 Truth Movement The New York Times Retrieved August 3 2014 Journal Lucia Graves National March 5 2014 Confessions of a Former RT Employee The Atlantic Retrieved July 22 2019 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link WATCH Russia Today Host Goes Rogue On Ukraine Occupation HuffPost UK March 4 2014 Retrieved July 22 2019 RT journalist quits live on air citing Russian intervention in Crimea The Washington Post 2014 a b c d Gray Rosie February 19 2015 RT Host Who Criticized Russia s Ukraine Invasion Is Leaving The Network BuzzFeed Retrieved April 20 2015 Watch as Russia Today presenter quits on live television over Moscow s actions in Crimea www nationalpost com Bennett Laura March 5 2014 The Most Interesting Part of Abby Martin s Outburst on Russia Today Its Aftermath The New Republic ISSN 0028 6583 Retrieved July 22 2019 Kirchick James March 4 2014 RT Anchors Riff Not as Rogue as it Seems Tablet Retrieved July 28 2019 On her program she regularly gives air to outrageous conspiracy theories including the notion that water fluoridation is a pernicious government plot to poison unsuspecting American citizens Riechmann Deb March 5 2014 TV anchorwoman criticizes Kremlin on Ukraine Big Story Associated Press Archived from the original on March 22 2014 She once protested with the 9 11 Truth movement which alleges that U S government officials might have been complicit in the Sept 11 terrorist attacks a theory to which Martin says she no longer subscribes Priesnitz Wendy Sept Oct 2011 Media Roots The Media Beat Natural Life 141 26 ISSN 0701 8002 subscription required Reitman Janet March 27 2014 The Young Renegade of TV News Rolling Stone 1205 20 ISSN 0035 791X Martin Abby October 25 2011 Occupy Oakland Police Standoff amp Brutal Assault Tear Gas Media Roots YouTube Retrieved January 21 2014 Ventura Tyrel August 27 2013 Abby Martin Discusses Breaking The Set and Her Work at RT Buzzsaw TheLip tv Retrieved January 13 2014 Martin Robbie October 6 2010 Abby amp Robbie Martin Introductions Obama Administration Archived March 5 2014 at archive today Dangerous Conversations RadioIO van Zuylen Wood Simon May 4 2017 At RT News Breaks You www bloomberg com Retrieved March 15 2019 Bidder Benjamin Putin s Weapon in the War of Images Der Spiegel Vol 33 pp 134 135 ISSN 0038 7452 Bidder s article also appeared in other news outlets such as A anti CNN russa na guerra das imagens Russian anti CNN in the war of images O Estado de S Paulo in Portuguese Brazil September 1 2013 Archived from the original on September 2 2013 Breaking the Set About YouTube Channel Retrieved January 16 2014 Rankin Jennifer December 20 2012 Russia Today chases ratings with controversy GlobalPost Retrieved January 16 2014 40 Staged Terror Fukushima Crime Syndicate Conspiracy Reality Breaking the Set November 1 2012 archived from the original on June 19 2019 retrieved February 18 2019 Austin Henry March 4 2014 News Anchor Slams Crimea Takeover on State Funded Russian TV NBC News Retrieved March 4 2014 Paget Antonia March 4 2014 Russia Today host condemns Ukraine occupation The Times subscription required Ukraine crisis Could Russia Today turn you into a Putin propagandist The Independent Archived from the original on March 7 2014 Retrieved August 25 2018 Taylor Adam RT journalist quits live on air citing Russian intervention in Crimea via www washingtonpost com Greenwald Glenn March 4 2014 RT Host Abby Martin Condemns Russian Incursion Into Crimea On RT The Intercept Retrieved March 4 2014 Krishnan Joe March 4 2014 Ukraine crisis Russia Today TV host goes off message with attack on intervention in Crimea The Independent Archived from the original on March 23 2014 However sharp eyed viewers may have noticed that she was reading from the auto cue and therefore presumably had permission from producers of the show to express her beliefs Graef Aileen March 4 2014 RT news anchor speaks out against Russian intervention UPI Archived from the original on March 23 2014 Media analysts say that Martin was reading from a teleprompter and therefore more than likely had her producer s consent Russia TV host calls Ukraine intervention wrong on air BBC News March 4 2014 Ensor Josie March 4 2014 Russia Today host who criticised Kremlin sent to Crimea The Daily Telegraph Rutenberg Jim September 18 2016 Larry King the Russian Media and a Partisan Landscape The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved February 13 2019 Gray Rosie March 9 2015 Jesse Ventura s Son And Oliver Stone s Son Get A Show At Russia Today BuzzFeed Retrieved April 20 2015 Useful Idiots Abby Martin on New Doc Gaza Fights for Freedom Rolling Stone October 25 2019 Retrieved October 29 2019 Empire Files YouTube www youtube com Retrieved August 11 2020 Norton Ben June 3 2017 Venezuelan Opposition Spreads Lies About U S Journalists Inciting Violence Death Threats AlterNet Archived from the original on June 6 2017 Retrieved June 6 2017 a b Davis Stuart 2023 Sanctions as War Anti Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo Economic Strategy Haymarket Books p 69 ISBN 978 1 64259 812 4 OCLC 1345216431 US Sanctions Shut Down The Empire Files with Abby Martin Media Roots Retrieved August 25 2018 The Empire Files has been funded through a contract with the TeleSUR network Gaza Fights For Freedom A Film by Abby Martin Gaza Fights For Freedom Archived from the original on August 5 2019 Retrieved August 5 2019 abby August 15 2019 Gaza Fights For Freedom Screening Tour with Abby Martin MEDIA ROOTS Reporting From Outside Party Lines Retrieved March 4 2021 Civil Rights Groups to Announce Federal Free Speech Lawsuit Against Georgia s Unconstitutional Israel Boycott Law Yahoo Finance February 10 2020 Retrieved February 10 2020 Schechter Dave February 13 2020 Georgia Anti BDS Law Challenged Atlanta Jewish Times Retrieved February 15 2020 Martin v Wrigley 540 F Supp 3d 1220 N D Ga 2021 05 21 Redden Elizabeth May 26 2021 Want Your Honorarium Sign an Anti BDS Pledge First Inside Higher Ed Retrieved May 27 2021 Neidig Harper May 24 2021 Federal judge says Georgia s anti BDS law violates First Amendment The Hill Retrieved June 3 2021 Hysen Britt July 28 2014 RT Host Abby Martin Takes On Corporate Media Archived March 31 2016 at the Wayback Machine Millennial Magazine Retrieved July 28 2014 Moynihan Michael March 9 2014 How to Justify Russian Aggression The Daily Beast Archived from the original on November 27 2023 Retrieved February 13 2019 Kirchick James March 12 2015 Putin TV Hires Conspiracy Royalty The Daily Beast Archived from the original on February 3 2024 Retrieved July 22 2019 Stossel John May 4 2018 A journalist s propaganda for murderers Pressconnects USA Today Retrieved February 13 2019 March 4 Updates on Ukraine Crisis The New York Times March 4 2014 Retrieved March 29 2014 The Truth er About Abby Martin Retrieved March 29 2014 Cromwell David September 12 2018 Empire journalism ColdType Retrieved February 13 2019 To realise how incomplete and distorted is BBC News coverage you only have to listen to the superb independent journalist Abby Martin who has risked her life to report what the corporate media is not telling you about Venezuela US Sanctions Shut Down The Empire Files with Abby Martin scoop co nz September 3 2018 Antiwar Sentiment in the Military Is Stronger Than Ever An interview with Mike Prysner jacobinmag com August 19 2021 Prysner founded the organization March Forward in 2008 Today he s an antiwar journalist having cowritten and produced multiple documentaries for the program The Empire Files hosted by his wife Abby Martin Mike Prysner Early Sunday AbbyMartin gave birth to our child She went into labor marching 9mos pregnant all day with BlackLivesMatter in Beverly Hills twitter com June 2 2020 Mike Prysner MikePrysner February 2 2023 On Sunday AbbyMartin gave birth to our second child Abby amp baby are doing great and I m in awe of how amazing they both are Tweet Retrieved April 13 2023 via Twitter Gaza Fights For Freedom gazafightsforfreedom com Archived from the original on August 5 2020 Retrieved August 11 2020 The Venus Project imdb com The Venus Project Retrieved January 23 2016 99 The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film 99percentfilm com Archived from the original on November 14 2016 Retrieved November 14 2016 IMDb Project Censored the Movie 2013 imdb com IMDb Retrieved November 14 2016 Project Censored The News that Didn t Make the News and Why projectcensored org Project Censored External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Abby Martin nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Abby Martin Graphic Artist website Abby Martin on Twitter Abby Martin at IMDb Abby Martin at AllMovie Abby Martin at Rotten Tomatoes Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Abby Martin amp oldid 1219241812, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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