{"id":1171,"date":"2026-05-26T12:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/2026\/05\/26\/rick-sanchez-slams-bbc-and-cnn-over-college-massacre-site-no-show-video\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:39:37","slug":"rick-sanchez-slams-bbc-and-cnn-over-college-massacre-site-no-show-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=1171","title":{"rendered":"Rick Sanchez slams BBC and CNN over college massacre site no-show (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can they call themselves journalists when they cover one story and completely ignore another, the host of RT\u2019s Sanchez Effect has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

CNN and the BBC should have visited the site of a deadly Ukrainian drone strike on a college dormitory in Russia\u2019s\u00a0Lugansk People\u2019s Republic (LPR) if they say they distrust Moscow\u2019s narrative about the attack, US journalist Rick Sanchez has said.<\/p>\n

Kiev struck a teacher training college dormitory in Starobelsk with several waves of UAVs on Friday, killing 21 people \u2013 most of them teenage girls \u2013 and injuring 65 others.<\/p>\n

Sanchez, who used to work for MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, and now hosts the Sanchez Effect program on RT, was among some 50 foreign journalists from 19 countries who visited the site of the attack this weekend. CNN and the BBC rejected the offer to send correspondents on a trip to the LPR at the invitation of the Russian authorities.<\/p>\n

The US journalist said that he came to Starobelsk and saw for himself that the Ukrainian claims that there were Russian military installations near the affected college and the dorm were false.
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\u201cI don\u2019t believe the Russian Foreign Ministry, right? I want to hear it from the people there\u2026 And that\u2019s why you come here. The BBC should have come here asking those questions. CNN should have come here asking those questions,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

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According to Sanchez, it was \u201cfrustrating\u201d<\/em> to see the Western media ignoring the attack on the Russian dormitory and only focusing on Moscow\u2019s retaliatory strikes against Ukrainian military targets, which included the deployment of hypersonic intermediate-range Oreshnik missiles.
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\u201cHow do you legitimately say, \u2018I am a journalist\u2019 if you don\u2019t cover one story, but you cover another story?\u201d<\/em> he wondered.<\/p>\n

RT senior correspondent Murad Gazdiev, who was among the journalists with whom Sanchez discussed the decision of the BBC and CNN not to visit Starobelsk, insisted that it was a \u201cstatement\u201d<\/em> on the part of the Western outlets.<\/p>\n

They basically said: \u201cwe aren\u2019t interested. We\u2019re only interested in any potential civilian casualties on the side that we support. The side that we don\u2019t support – screw them,\u201d<\/em> Gazdiev explained.<\/p>\n

Irish journalist Chay Bowes, who hosts the Moscow Mules show on RT, noted that \u201cthe same money that funds the BBC, buys the weapons from the US now and hands them to this dictatorship in Kiev.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Iranian reporter Christopher Helali from DD Geopolitics website agreed, saying that people working for the BBC and CNN \u201caren\u2019t journalists. They\u2019re stenographers. They\u2019re not free.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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