And of course Putin's state-run media can be counted on to tell you the "truth". Like when they reported that the founder of RT (Russia Today) had died of a heart attack, when an autopsy report 4 months later revealed he had died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head, neck and torso. But I suppose these signs could have been 'mistaken' for those of a heart attack.
>And of course Putin’s state-run media can be counted on to tell you the “truth”. Like when they reported that the founder of RT (Russia Today) had died of a heart attack, when an autopsy report 4 months later revealed he had died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head, neck and torso. But I suppose these signs could have been ‘mistaken’ for those of a heart attack.
You and other neo-cons make this charge a lot, but I’ve rarely read RT and believe it about as much as I believe our own media. One of the most disturbing discoveries I made in my 20s was how much of our news is just lies and misdirection. People who believe our media isn’t lying to them 24/7 are just as dumb as the people who don’t think Russia media isn’t lying to them 24/7.
Anyone remember the media reporting on the WACO slaughter? Go review it sometime and then consider that the lies and distortions that happened there happen just as much about foreign events, if not more so. Additionally, when it comes to foreign reporting the CIA has quite a few reporters in their pay and they reliably report whatever the CIA wants from time to time.
Now consider how we form our view of Russia and other nations. The majority of we know comes from the lying MSN and in some cases, CIA paid reporters. This tends to leave us with a one sided view how events went down as I just demonstrated with ETL’s stink up about a Russian defector Putin may have had killed.
ETL screams Putin murdered a Journalist but from the Russian perspective they killed a traitor living in America just as America kills our traitors/enemies living in other countries. I can’t justify being outraged when we do the same damn thing.