Original sentence: RT itself confirms it is funded by the Russian government as confirmed by its presenters.Western state and commercial media claim that RT has close ties with the Russian state authorities and a few years after the channel started broadcasting, for being a "cheerleader" of the Kremlin, applying positive spin to reports about governmental institutions, refraining from criticizing Prime Minister and former Russian president Vladimir Putin or the government, and deliberately and incessantly engaging in US/NATO/EU-bashing through "interviews" in which only Russian ultra-nationalists or highly critical, anti-western "experts" are interviewed—without any probing questions or challenges by the RT reporters, and without to hear opposing points of view
Edited sentence: RT itself claims to be funded by the Russian government, and on-air presenters also confirm that the network is a "Government Agency".Western state and commercial media claim that RT has close ties with the Russian state authorities and a few years after the channel started broadcasting, for being a "cheerleader" of the Kremlin, applying positive spin to reports about governmental institutions, refraining from criticizing Prime Minister and former Russian president Vladimir Putin or the government, and deliberately and incessantly engaging in US/NATO/EU-bashing through "interviews" in which only Russian ultra-nationalists or highly critical, anti-western "experts" are interviewed—without any probing questions or challenges by the RT reporters, and without even bothering to hear opposing points of view