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newthinking

(3,982 posts)
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 06:52 PM Mar 2014

Why isn't our press giving the full story in Ukraine?

Large Protests are occurring throughout the East and south Ukraine. But it is hardly covered and when it is framed in incomplete terms. This picture represents the activity and how serious it is. Events are not just in Crimea.


Flags represent where protesters have raised Russian Flags over government buildings


Why are these pictures as prominent in our media (like they were continuously from Kiev)?



What is happening in Ukraine is very complex and the press is not doing a good job of covering it.

Pictures from
Thousands rally against 'illegitimate govt', raise Russian flags in eastern Ukraine
http://rt.com/news/donetsk-kharkov-ukraine-protest-365/

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Why isn't our press giving the full story in Ukraine? (Original Post) newthinking Mar 2014 OP
Our "press" has become lazy and most of them seemingly lounge at desks Warpy Mar 2014 #1
For the same reason they didn't show the hundreds of thousands polly7 Mar 2014 #2

Warpy

(111,338 posts)
1. Our "press" has become lazy and most of them seemingly lounge at desks
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 07:10 PM
Mar 2014

waiting for press releases from some chicken brained pseudocelebrity to drop into their laps.

They're not reporting on it because as usual, they were caught flatfooted. While most of us were watching a revolution done right, they were networking with each other. While we were reading background on how the extreme southwest of Ukraine is strongly fascist, the extreme east is just as strongly pro Russian and the people in the middle are caught in the middle, as usual, they were surfing celebrity sites.

No, I have very little respect for most of our fourth estate, the only ones worth a paycheck long having been driven out of major media and relegated to lefty magazines and the occasional spot on either MSNBC, PBS or Al Jazeera America. The rest of them are wearing golden handcuffs that attach them to corporate media and the last thing corporate media want is the type of news that makes Americans think.

I turned off TV news for the last time in 2004. The revolution will not be televised. It's on the net.

polly7

(20,582 posts)
2. For the same reason they didn't show the hundreds of thousands
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 07:13 PM
Mar 2014

in the streets protesting the upcoming bombing of Libya, or the horrific images in Iraq. If you don't see it, it didn't happen.

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