Posted on 03/03/2022 9:38:51 PM PST by fluorescence
Russia’s last few remaining independent-minded media outlets were taken off the air this week in a public feud over reporting on Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine after the country’s prosecutor general said the stations were misleading the Russian public and spreading lies.
Both Ekho Moskvy, a long staple of independent journalism, and TV Rain, which gained prominence during mass antigovernment protests that shook Russia a decade ago, said access to their sites had been blocked by the country’s communications censor, known as Roskomnadzor.
“Roskomnadzor has decided to take Ekho Moskvy off the air,” the station said on its Twitter feed. “We don’t agree with the current decision and will continue working for you,” it said, adding a link for listeners to tune in online. On Wednesday access to the link was blocked.
The moves represent a final blow against independent media in Russia, which has long been bound by stringent laws that force editorial loyalty to the Kremlin line. Over the past decade, moves to list various outlets as foreign agents have hampered funding and placed onerous legal burdens on even small outlets.
Both Ekho Moskvy and TV Rain have been designated as foreign agents by the country’s authorities.
Russia’s prosecutor general’s office said earlier this week that the stations’ coverage of the war, which has generally tried to present the events in Ukraine in an objective light, was tantamount to distributing “deliberately false information about the actions of Russian military personnel.”
At home, Russian state news television channels, the primary source of information for most Russians across the country, have presented the conflict as a special operation aimed at ousting an illegitimate and antidemocratic government, in line with the Kremlin’s portrayal of the invasion.
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Surprised any free press remained in Russia - Putin pretty much got rid of all the free press by the mid 2000s.
In before the Putin buttlickers.
Do we have free press? It’s a serious question.
Also in line with the descriptions used by a surprisingly large number of FReepers.
Oh the irony.
You and I may have not agreed on the vax, but we definitely agree on Putin.
Living in Berlin gives one a different view of Russia today, just like it did for me back in the 80s.
You can say whatever you want. But CNN is going to ignore you while they serve as the mouthpiece for ANTIFA/BLM.
same small group that’s just very loud and posts more frequently and have been spreading propaganda on other topics besides that for awhile - and now they prop up the Kremlin.
Someone actually defended Putin the other day and argued that Putin would not be able to get away with the things he was being apparently “falsely” accused of doing in Ukraine since they have a free press in Russia that would hold him accountable. It was unreal someone would actually make such an argument.
When it gets really bad in the cities we will see Putin Trollboys posting the Ukrainians are killing civilians and blaming Russia.
Like the left trying to silence Fox News..
Things MUST NOT be going well in Ukraine for them to have to not allow honest reporting, else they would want the news shouted from the rooftops.
I bet libtards are sad that it wasn’t them instead of Putin.
What is good is that RT America, Novosti, and other Russian media outlets are being kicked out of USA, and other soft networks of FSB disinformatizya which has exploited a segment of US media and SNS circles is also in the process of being smashed, and I am glad that the level of information is going to be elevated, the propaganda points being deployed by the Soviets “active measures” to, for example, blame it on Ukraine, or say Russia only hits military targets, or America caused us to attack, or that Russia is the one under seige, will all soon be flushed. Good to see it happen. Been sick of seeing them exploit the mindshare, and good segment of rightside media and talking points in USA.
One TV station, the employees got up and just walked out.
Good thing that would never happen here in the west…oh wait
If the person reporting news is making a living by reporting news, no.
Yeah. It wasn’t long before a wave of ‘’illness’’ of some weird kind started affecting journalists, writers and publishers and owners of Russian media outlets that were critical of Vlad. Vlad doesn’t like being criticized.
A lot of them ended up getting real sick.
Like dead sick.
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