Our news is ‘curated’ because we cannot know the full truth. Does this remind you of anything recent?
We only hear one side, because the other side has been deemed to be BAD. One of the few exceptions is Vice News, who has a reporter behind Russian lines.
People interviewed on the street may not be an accurate gauge of sentiment, but I was surprised how many were in support of Russia.
On measuring Russians’ sentiment by VICE news reporter embedded in Russia: do you think people would express their opinion freely and on record in a country where you can get 15 years of GULAG resort for antiwar protest with an empty piece of paper?