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DetlefK

(16,423 posts) Fri Jan 17, 2020, 05:20 AM Jan 2020

Russian state-media refuses to report on Parnas-revelations. (And what that tells us.)

RT: No article on Lev Parnas since November 2019.

Sputnik News: 1 short article how the Democrats are submitting new evidence provided by Lev Parnas into the impeachment-trial. Next to no information what this evidence is.

What does this tell us?

Russian coverage of the US is three-pronged: The US-government is bad, except for Trump, who is good, but the Democrats opposing the US-government are also bad. In winter 2017/2018, their reporting changed from catering exclusively to Trump-fans (e.g. describing him as a peacemaker and skilled diplomat) to catering to Trump-fanatics as well to anti-american fanatics.

Russian coverage of the US is all about sowing discord in the US. E.g. they published back-to-back two editorials on "taking a knee". One editorial said it's important for the US to take a look at their past and slavery. (Bashing the US.) The other editorial said that it's unpatriotic to say something negative about your own country and you should never do that. (Supporting the MAGAs.)

Russian english-language media has createdtheir own echo-chamber, their own eco-system. Who lives in this eco-system? Well, let's just say that no matter what an article is about, you will always find a few commenters pointing out that the problem is really the fault of the Jews.

What does all this mean for Parnas?

Their refusal to report on the evidence provided by Parnas means that they don't know how to spin it.

It means, that the situation is bad. While it's okay to mildly criticize Trump for show, it means that they are afraid of suscepting their readers to this new evidence. They are afraid that the extremist anti-US sentiment they have cultivated could transform into an anti-Trump sentiment.

Russian media is afraid that their attack-dogs could get loose of the leash:
They have learned to hate the US. What if they start hating Donald Trump, the US-President?

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Russian state-media refuses to report on Parnas-revelations. (And what that tells us.) (Original Post) DetlefK Jan 2020 OP

It's not just Russia that created their own echo-chamber. Here's a short vid on what the GOP did NCLefty Jan 2020 #1

Why would they? intrepidity Jan 2020 #2

Because their audience is not in Russia. DetlefK Jan 2020 #3

NCLefty

(3,678 posts)

1. It's not just Russia that created their own echo-chamber. Here's a short vid on what the GOP did

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2020, 05:45 AM

Jan 2020

here in America. It seems pretty on-the-mark to me:

intrepidity

(7,339 posts)

2. Why would they?

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2020, 07:10 AM

Jan 2020

Not sure I understand how you mean. Why would Yuri Q. Public care what Parnas is saying?

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

3. Because their audience is not in Russia.

Reply to intrepidity (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 17, 2020, 07:27 AM

Jan 2020

Contrary to what the russian media tries to feed us, the russian people actually don't like Putin that much. I have an ukrainian colleague who once told me that he hates Putin and that he would vote for him anyways: Because all the other candidates are even worse: extremist communists, extremist right-wingers, inexperienced celebrity attention-whores or simply brazenly corrupt.

The target audience is not the Russians: The Russians already hate the US anyways. The target audience is all the anti-establishment people all over the world.

It's a propaganda-effort to convince the world that the US is the evil establishment, while the Ukraine- and Georgia-invading, freedom-of-the-press trashing, assassinating, geopolitical empire-building Russia headed by a leader who has been the unofficial/official head of Russia since 1999 is NOT the establishment.

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