Posted on 11/04/2015 7:21:55 AM PST by SteveinSATX
Russia is using propaganda to create an alternate reality for Russian minorities in Eastern Europe that discredits democracy and could incite violence, analysts said at a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
Leon Aron, director of Russian studies at the American Enterprise Institute, said that Moscow devotes hundreds of millions of dollars annually to propaganda that is flexible and skillfully adapted to the geography of the audience. The Kremlins programs include RT and Sputnik, state-funded news outlets aimed at Western Europe and the United States, as well as a variety of media platforms designed to influence the Russian population and ethnic Russian minorities in former Soviet states.
Rather than persuade Americans and Europeans to accept the Russian governments view of events, Aron said that RT and Sputnik instead seek to devalue the notions of democratic transparency and accountability, to undermine confidence in objective reporting, and to litter the news with half-truths and quarter truths. They do this, he said, by capitalizing on Western media principles, such as leaving value judgments out of reporting, to spread disinformation and erode trust in the media.
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So, they have learned from the Obama administration and are copying them in Russia.
Even actual reality is a separate reality these days.
Might want to see who funds Leon Aron and his institute. Qatar, Saudi Arabia?
I doubt whether the Russians are lying as flagrantly as the Bamster.
My thought exactly. Substitute “ObaMao and his state media” for “Russia” and substitute “ethnic minorities” for “Russian ethnic minorities” and it is a current even in ObaMao’s Amerika.
Good thing that kind of stuff doesn't happen here.
with all these alternate realities around the world, pretty soon, even looking out the window too see the time of day will be questionable...
If you like your propaganda, you can keep your propaganda ...
I suspect soon Obama will be calling for the disarming of Russia, because of an unnamed and unknown terrorist groups (think Korasan Group) and start his campaign against Russia. If all goes well for Obama and the Democrats, Nukes will be flying by the New year. I mean, it seems to be the goal of the WH
In before the FRussians make excuses for Putin....oops, too late.
In before CryptoNazis issue a prior constraint on political speech - oops, too late.
“If all goes well for Obama and the Democrats, Nukes will be flying by the New year. I mean, it seems to be the goal of the WH”
What better way to “Fundamentally Transform” America, and punish white christian people, than by getting America nuked?
“Black Lives Matters is using propaganda to create an alternate reality for black minorities in US Inner Cities that discredits democracy and could incite violence,”
There, fixed.
Speaking of creating “Separate Realities”, I’m watching Victoria Nuland in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Talk about Propaganda and living in a bubble!!
Our media is doing that on their own without the Russians' help.
This seems to be a little bit of propaganda itself.
I do not trust media in general. The ties between government and media seem to be very strong and corrupt no matter where you live and what sort of government you live under. But this article gives credit for a lot more power than I believe is currently possible. Someone is projecting the past into the here and now.
In before the Homofascistas make excuses for Obama enemedia Islamonazi Maiden shills. ....oops, too late.
Actually it was KGB Putin's Soviet Union that taught us about propaganda.
And it's been that way here ever since.
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