Russia’s Propaganda Creating ‘Separate Reality’ in Eastern Europe

The Washington Free Beacon ^ | November 4, 2015 | Daniel Wiser

[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.

[trotskylvalia]

McCarthy was right.

[lormand]

It is as easy as pie to flush out Putin lovers as your responses typify.

[lormand]

"In before the Homofascistas make excuses for Obama enemedia Islamonazi Maiden shills. ....oops, too late."

It must suck to live in a binary world where one can only recognize one tyrant at a time and become shrill when their chosen tyrant is challenged.

[Navy Patriot]

It is as easy as pie to flush out Obama enemedia Islamonazi Maiden shills as your posts typify.

[sport]

Probably both.

[lormand]

"It is as easy as pie to flush out Obama enemedia Islamonazi Maiden shills as your posts typify."

I'll try to clear it up for you. Obama AND Putin are scumbags. When a story about Putin pops up, it makes one wonder the motives of those who post "yes, but Obama does it too". Some people can't focus on tyrants other than Obama and wind up making excuses for foreign tyrants. Hopefully, we will get Cruz or someone in office in 16' and we can get you back in our fold.