Russian journalists instructed to show Trump in a positive way, and Hillary in negative way

[iluvtennis]

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A Russian Journalist Explains How the Kremlin Instructed Him to Cover the 2016 Election

On a recent Saturday in November, Dimitri Skorobutov, a former editor at Russia’s largest state media company, sat in a bar in Maastricht, a college town in the Netherlands, with journalists from around the world and discussed covering Donald Trump. Skorobutov opened a packet of documents and explained that they were planning guides from Russian state media that showed how the Kremlin wanted the 2016 U.S. Presidential election covered.

Among the journalists, Skorobutov’s perspective was unique. Aside from Fox News, no network worked as hard as Rossiya, as Russian state TV is called, to boost Donald Trump and denigrate Hillary Clinton. Skorobutov, who was fired from his job after a dispute with a colleague that ended in a physical altercation, went public with his story of how Russian state media works, in June, talking to the U.S. government-funded broadcaster Radio Liberty. The organizers of the Maastricht conference learned of his story and invited him to speak. He flipped through his pages and pointed to the coverage guide for August 9, 2016, when Clinton stumbled while climbing some steps. The Kremlin wanted to play the story up big.

Skorobutov started working in Russian state media companies when he was seventeen years old, and has worked in print, radio, and TV. During the 2016 campaign, he was an editor for “Vesti,” a daily news program. Skorobutov described it as a mid-level position, with four layers of bureaucrats separating him and the Kremlin. His supervisor was a news director who, he said, got his job after making a laudatory documentary about Putin. Before joining “Vesti,” Skorobutov worked as the press secretary of the Russian Geographical Society, a pet project of Putin, which made headlines last year when Putin declared at a Society event that Russian borders “do not end anywhere.”

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[bettyellen]

1. And American journalists did much the same- to profit on a close race....

[iluvtennis]

2. Agreed. It was all a ratings game for US M$M.

[Irish_Dem]

4. The US Media turned the presidency into a reality TV show for ratings.

Really heinous.

[bettyellen]

5. And I think the Greek chorus of trolls figured into their decisions- to the extent they were more...

"entertaining" than voters who were actually informed or seriously cared about the country, and not sown crazy delusions.

[democratisphere]

3. HRC have to fight against a massive RW conspiracy, a Russian/drumpf

conspiracy and a MSM conspiracy. HRC wins the popular vote and loses the Presidency because of our backasswards banana republic electoral college system. The voter's votes don't count.

[stevenleser]

6. Glad I stopped appearing on RT when I did.

Russian state media is a full on part of Russian intelligence, pushing out agitprop 24x7.