Posted on 10/21/2015 3:32:34 PM PDT by marvel5
The trope of Russian state propaganda in mainstream Western media is a persistent one, especially as of late. This continued focus expresses ones own loss of control as older cable-news models are in decline, the media landscape becomes more diverse, and various web platforms allow younger savvy users to locate alternative information sources. This kind of repetitive finger-pointing is also simultaneously meant to delegitimize Russias foreign-language broadcasting and to explain the support for Putin domestically.
The notion in question relies on a number of related assumptions:
that Western countries do not have state media; that corporate media is impartial; that state media cannot feature opposing points of view and is thus inferior to its corporate counterpart; that media consumers, the general and even the educated public, are incapable of critically analyzing the information they receive.
Let us address the inconsistencies in these assumptions issued by those, who consider themselves the paragon of accurate journalism, fit to set and criticize reporting standards for all. Then, we will proceed to examine the domestic Russian media landscape, focusing on political, economic, and social (i.e., non-entertainment) issues. Let us also agree to define propaganda as not simply sharing information that promotes a particular view pointno one is immune to thatbut, rather, as sharing information that is deliberately misleading, one that may include purposeful omissions, especially when counter-facts are readily available
(Excerpt) Read more at russia-insider.com ...
You’ll get no argument from me.
It’s mind blowing that we not only have state run news, it is Stalinist state run news at that.
Russia is ranked #152 out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index.
While Russias leading TV channels continue to inundate viewers with propaganda, the Ukrainian crisis led to an increase in pressure on independent media, with a string of draconian laws, website blocking and leading independent news outlets either being brought under control or throttled out of existence. The climate has become very oppressive for those who question the new patriotic and neo-conservative discourse and, in some regions, local despots have taken advantage of this new climate to step up their persecution of critics.
https://index.rsf.org/#!/index-details/RUS
And this is a bad thing when they (Media) are devoted to telling lies???
Talk about crossed purposes, clear as a bell to me...
Robert Menard, the Secretary General of RSF, was forced to confess that RSF’s budget was primarily provided by “US organizations strictly linked with US foreign policy” (Thibodeau, La Presse).
NED (US$39,900 paid 14 Jan 2005)
Center for a Free Cuba (USAID and NED funded) $50,000 per year NED grant. Contract was signed by Otto Reich
European Union (1.2m Euro) — currently contested in EU parliament
Rights & Democracy in 2004 supported Reporters Without Borders-Canada [1]
“Grants from private foundations (Open Society Foundation, Center for a Free Cuba, Fondation de France, National Endowment for Democracy) were slightly up, due to the Africa project funded by the NED and payment by Center for a Free Cuba for a reprint of the banned magazine De Cuba.”
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Reporters_Without_Borders
In other words, a wholly owned subsidiary of the USG, EU, and George Soros.
George Soros spreads his evil everywhere. This vile creature has never done anything good in his entire disgusting life.
Join the club, Britain’s media is all propaganda, we have no independent media and the BBC is a state-run propaganda organisation.
“In other words, a wholly owned subsidiary of the USG, EU, and George Soros.”
I am beginning to think of these three entities as a colonial organism. Toss in NATO for good measure.
FREEDOM HOUSE-FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
Russia
Press Status-Not Free
Press Freedom Score 81
0=Best, 100=Worst
The already repressive press freedom environment in Russia declined even further with Vladimir Putins return to the presidency in 2012, as authorities relied on both crude and sophisticated forms of media management to distract the public from terrorist attacks, economic troubles, and antigovernment protests. The government maintained its grip on key television outlets and tightened controls over the internet during the year, and most state and privately owned mass media engaged in blatant propaganda that glorified the countrys national leaders and fostered an image of political pluralismespecially in the months ahead of Putins victory in the March presidential election.
https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2013/russia
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JORNALISTS
The beginning of Vladimir Putins third term as president was marked by a crackdown on civil society and critical opinion. Putin signed laws that suppress dissent by limiting public assembly, criminalizing defamation, and authorizing state censorship of critical websites. A Cold War-era chill settled in as lawmakers passed a measure requiring nongovernmental groups receiving international grants to register as foreign agents, and the administration expelled the United States Agency for International Development and the United Nations childrens agency.
https://cpj.org/2013/02/attacks-on-the-press-in-2012-russia.php
BBC-Russia profile Media
Russian TV is dominated by channels that are either run directly by the state or owned by companies with close links to the Kremlin.
The government controls Channel One and Russia One - two of the three main federal channels - while state-controlled energy giant Gazprom owns NTV.
TV is the main news source for most Russians. There is a fast-growing pay-TV market, led by satellite broadcaster Tricolor. The government is undertaking a project to bring digital TV to every Russian home.
An international English-language satellite news TV, RT, is state-funded and aims to present “global news from a Russian perspective”.
Since the Ukraine crisis, Russian state media have intensified the pro-Kremlin and nationalistic tone of their broadcasts, pumping out a regular diet of adulation for Mr Putin, nationalistic pathos, fierce rejection of Western influence and and attacks on the Kremlin’s enemies.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17840134
NATIONAL REVIEW-Lenin Meets Corleone
Then there are the Russian mass media, which are completely under the thumb of the regime, which function as an extension of the state, and which have created an alternative reality so comprehensive that its not altogether clear what the Russian people do and dont know although if the available polling data are to be believed, the overwhelming majority of Russians have swallowed, without much pushback, the regimes fictitious narrative of the immediate Russian past, the beleaguered Russian present, and the potentially glorious Russian future. That media barrage, combined with Putins appeal to classic Russian belief in the Fatherland and the fevered theories (propounded by some in the extended Putin circle) of a Muscovite Third Rome that will save Christian civilization, has done grave damage to Russian civil society. And because of that damage, Russian civil society has, thus far, proven incapable of producing dissident antibodies in sufficient numbers, and of sufficient strength to provide anything remotely resembling a check on Putins power, much less a challenge to it.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415027/lenin-meets-corleone-george-weigel
And the US is ranked #49. Behind Niger and Botswana.
Sounds about right.
Ya think?
“Freedom House” is 80% funded by NED (USG); also funded by USIA (USG), Soros, Pew, Ford, etc.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Freedom_House
Committee to Protect Journalists is funded by a variety of leftist media outlets, individuals, foundations, and corporations, including CBS, Dan Rather, Gwen Ifill, Ford Foundation, NYT, Pew, Brian Williams (!), The New Yorker, NBC, Harvard, Google, BBC, etc.
https://cpj.org/about/CPJ.2011.Annual.Report.pdf
BBC is the state funded propaganda arm of the UK.
NR is the flagship neocon magazine, whose mission, is to spread and support the USG’s phony campaign to spread “democracy,” “human rights,” “American exceptionalism,” as a cover for worldwide USG hegemony.
Did Soros actually say that?
My goodness, only the crazy would oppose the POS being arrested. He’s trying to destroy Europe and America and he’s not hauled away and put in a cage?
He’s funding Black Lives Matter also. Soros is filth.
Yes, and Soros funds most degenerate Progressive Socialist movements like Occupy, Maiden and Arab Spring using false flag and disinformation, always with the help of the Drive By Media. He profits by collapsing currencies, and economies and is currently the prime mover in the Nazification of Ukraine for a huge mineral and land grab from the Ukrainian (soon to be) serfs.
Not forgetting this from George Soros:
http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/george-soros-bank-of-england.asp
Nor this, Soros International Criminal:
“No. 4 - George Soros
George Soros has been described as a pirate and is despised in locations as various as Thailand, Britain and Malaysia. This famous currency speculator has made a fortune breaking currencies. In breaking the Bank of England, Soros became a figure to be feared by countries trying to protect fragile currencies. Soros is far from a numbers-only speculator. He looks in-depth at a country and tries to spot errors in valuation; political policies in particular draw his interest. Active in philanthropy focused on bringing about political change, Soros also uses his currency positions to “punish” countries whose policies are ignored in favor of positive economic data by most speculators. By pressuring these governments financially, Soros can force political changes that might never come about otherwise. Governments may fear him, but the citizens of these countries may ultimately thank him. (Though feared on Wall Street, charities and nonprofits adored both Soros and Gates. Find out more about their giving in The Christmas Saints Of Wall Street.)”
” Active in philanthropy focused on bringing about political change, Soros also uses his currency positions to punish countries whose policies are ignored in favor of positive economic data by most speculators. By pressuring these governments financially, Soros can force political changes that might never come about otherwise.”
This creep should have been arrested decades ago, he should be serving a 50 year prison sentence. He’s an international menace and a threat to world peace.
The headline is a lie. Period.
There is zero free press in Russia. This article is pure BS
Only a Trump supporter would believe bogus articles like thus.
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