interesting observation. we were stuck only getting over the air TV for a month and the channels consisted of various Asian news channels (which I found entertaining)and a few European channels that were actually disturbing. Their media projects a US that is not based in reality. We were laughing watching RT (Russian Television in english) and they were decrying the lack of personal freedoms in the US. A Putin controlled media was discussing the lack of freedoms in the US.. infriggincredible. They had as “journalists” the likes of Ted Rall, a hideous female blogger with hygiene problems and Adam Kokesh and every America hating leftist in need of a few bucks. Rall and Kokesh would have had a Polonium enema a long time ago in Putin’s Russia but they go on Russian TV to complain about the lack of freedom in the US. Whenever that Kokesh guy and Ted Rall pull a stunt, they never present him as someone on Putin’s payroll just a “activist”..
There was never a neutral or pro-America view presented, even on the Asian stations where Americans were shown as dunces and foils to the superior Asians. The German, French and British stations were a little less brutal but very distorted nonetheless.
If this is what they see, it’s no wonder they have a distorted perspective of reality.
Beam MSNBC over there and it would be a bonus. Think about that.
As I recall it, when Pooty-Poot visited Dubya in Texas, he thought that all the freedoms he observed along the way were a show that was being put on for him.