Sunday, December 10, 2017

Much indeed in what he says …

… The U.S. Media Yesterday Suffered its Most Humiliating Debacle in Ages: Now Refuses All Transparency Over What Happened.

So continually awful and misleading has this reporting been that even Vladimir Putin’s most devoted critics – such as Russian expatriate Masha Gessenoppositional Russian journalists, and anti-Kremlin liberal activists in Moscow – are constantly warning that the U.S. media’s unhinged, ignorant, paranoid reporting on Russia is harming their cause in all sorts of ways, in the process destroying the credibility of the U.S. media in the eyes of Putin’s opposition (who — unlike Americans who have been fed a steady news and entertainment propaganda diet for decades about Russia — actually understand the realities of that country).
I'm so old I remember when progressives thought the world of Russia.

1 comment:

  1. 'I'm so old I remember when progressives thought the world of Russia.'

    Some, but not as many as you imply. The truth is more complex, and memory often selective.

    Of course I agree that journalistic accuracy is the goal, and that factual mistakes are detrimental to intelligent discourse and decision-making, especially in our social-media fueled age. However, I wonder if there are actually more such mistakes now than pre-Trump, or if it only seems that way due to his near constant 'fake news' assaults. Someone should try to gather the historical data and analyse any trends.

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