Posted on 12/27/2018 1:33:29 PM PST by Navy Patriot
Leak comes after Sunday Times (UK) published names of journalists working for Moscow-backed Sputnik’s UK bureau.
A list of BBC reporters working in Russia has been leaked online, along with their photographs, amid growing pressure on the broadcaster in Russia.
The list of 44 journalists, most of them Russian citizens, appears to have first been published in the anonymously run For Mother Russia group on the social network VKontakte. It was then reprinted by a rightwing Russian news website with photographs culled from the journalists’ social media profiles and other public sources.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Next step would be to dox the BBC executives’ home addresses, pics, phone numbers, and where their kids go to school.
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Kremlin officials said the investigation was a response to an Ofcom ruling that the state-backed RT (formerly Russia Today) had violated impartiality rules after the Salisbury poisoning incident and risked “statutory sanctions”, including possible fines or a loss of licence.
The leak of BBC journalists also appears to be a retaliation.
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Kremlin officials said the investigation was a response to an Ofcom ruling that the state-backed RT (formerly Russia Today) had violated impartiality rules after the Salisbury poisoning incident and risked “statutory sanctions”, including possible fines or a loss of licence.
The leak of BBC journalists also appears to be a retaliation.
I was not aware that journalists had a right to keep their identity a secret, like a spy.
I think this is pretty funny considering the I’ve watched for years on the news how journalists find some poor sap who wound up in some event, and stand there on his front door knocking and trying to humiliate them.
It is curious, innit?
Like the 7 year old girl that the President talked to on Christmas Eve
Why does it matter? They are all fellow travelers. They probably just took a picture of the participants in a Communist Party rally.
“The leak of BBC journalists also appears to be a retaliation”
Utterly justified IMHO.
If the UK does it to Russian reporters in the UK then Russia is absolutely justified in doing it to UK government reporters in Russia.
And what arrogance of the UK to think they can do such things and expect to get away with it?
In the U.S., the alphabet networks are propaganda agencies for either the CIA or FBI.
>>A list of BBC reporters working in Russia has been leaked online
Was it a government secret?
Were they acting as agents of the British government?
>>I was not aware that journalists had a right to keep their identity a secret, like a spy.
“A community is low on a ‘Respect’ scale if common courtesy is withheld from large groups of people on account of their political attitudes.”
“...in a downright despotism opposition is dangerous whether the despotism is official or whether it is unofficial...”
“A community rates low on the ‘Information’ scale when the press, radio, and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people and when citizens have to accept what they are told.”
“See how a community trains its teachers”
“...these students are being taught to accept uncritically whatever they are told. Questions are not encouraged.”
“And if books and newspapers and the radio [and facebook and youtube and...] are officially controlled the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to. Government censorship is one form of control. The newspaper that breaks the government censorship rule can be suspended. It is also possible for newspapers and other lines of communication to be controlled by private interests...”
Democracy (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx25aMPvbJo
“The newspapers of a real democracy meet these tests...”
Newspaper checks.
1. Balance of coverage
2. Disclosure of source
3. Competence of staff
>>The list of 44 journalists, most of them Russian citizens, appears to have first been published in the anonymously run For Mother Russia group on the social network VKontakte. It was then reprinted by a rightwing Russian news website
Rightwing Russian news website?
So an anti-Communist news website?
Or are the Leftards at the Guardian now claiming that Rightwing is “conservative Communist”?
Great little film! Thanks.
Sort of ...
They would be more accurately described as Russia First, (Ethnic) Russians First, and Nationalistic. Russians are used to Bureaucracy and don't see it as the threat to Freedom that it is, but they do see that Communism does not work economically.
So an anti-Communist news website?
Not exactly, more a non Communist policy.
There are a lot of retirees in Russia that draw (and are totally dependent on) pensions from the Communist System of the Soviet era. The Russian Federation pays these pensions with the approval of the citizenry in general, and these pensioners and some who have sympathy, have not given up on Communism, thus the 15% or so that support the Communist Party and vote Communist. The Communists have little control of economic policy, but the Socialist Bureaucracy does have a notable effect.
All the Russian Big Name Media from the Soviet era (Pravda, Izvestia) has been taken over by Liberal Socialist Globalists with very close connections to Western Mainstream Media (or Western Communists, in effect).
The New Russian Media is sensationalistic, somewhat inane, somewhat biased toward Russia and Putin, but not all that inaccurate, and not Communist.
If you want the Russian Communist point of view, read the Washington Post, they're dead on.
Real Conservative thought in Russia is still scarce, they've had only 20 years to apply conservative ideas and see how they work out, it'll take a while to develop, and they have all the Western Communist NGO's and Globalists trying to push them back to Entitlement Communism.
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