Propaganda Army Speaks Fluent Kremlin

[Tommy_Carcetti]

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/putins-propagandists-not-known-for-ethics-364352.html


Propaganda Army Speaks Fluent Kremlin

Sept. 11, 2014, 11:26 p.m. | Ukraine — by Oleg Sukhov

Russia doesn't have the highest standard of living or the best democratic institutions, to say the least, but many believe it is a world leader in one field - propaganda.

Since President Vladimir Putin began consolidating the country’s news media under his control in 2000, the Kremlin’s indoctrination machine has not stopped growing.

While previously it was more subtle and nuanced, Russian propaganda has become more outrageous and in-your-face since Ukraine’s EuroMaidan Revolution, which ousted President Viktor Yanukovych on Feb. 22, and the Kremlin’s March annexation of Crimea. Now it resembles Josef Stalin-era rhetoric as the last independent media are being squashed.

The pursuit of truth is not on the agenda. Demonization of Ukraine is now the main focus of the Kremlin’s propaganda, with Ukrainian events accounting for the bulk of news coverage. While previously a key task of state-controlled Russian television was to vilify the opposition, now a major goal is to label major Ukrainian politicians as “fascists,” without pointing out the relatively low support for far-right groups among the Ukrainian population or the presence of neo-Nazis among Russian-backed insurgents.

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[Purveyor]

1. So sayeth the KyivPost...

[geek tragedy]

2. not a coincidence that a bunch of trolls spouting nothing but state media talking points

started posting here after Russia invaded Ukraine.

I mean, they could teach the hasbara crowd a few things.

[truth2power]

3. Yep. And be sure to tell everyone not to read anything on the internet

except on DU, where THE ONLY TRUTH resides.

Here: Ray McGovern. Oh wait, it's on RT. Never mind... Is there still any room left under that bus?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Idiots can be useful. nt

[truth2power]

5. Yes, they can. Especially those who engage in puerile attacks on the messenger

instead of evaluating the message, itself.

Kind of like the work that some high school students hand in, and the teacher responds, "But it said to 'evaluate'".

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. When the message is non-sensical, the messenger deserves to be called idiotic.

Like, say, when the essence of the evidence behind one's claim that there was a western backed "coup" in Ukraine boils down to, "Because I said so."