The Propaganda War Over Crimea's Break From Ukraine
Wednesday, 10 December 2014 11:41 By Roger Annis, Truthout | News Analysis

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/27891-the-propaganda-war-over-crimea-s-break-from-ukraine#


Defence Ministers working session at the NATO summit in Wales. (Photo: NATO Summit Wales 2014)

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Fact From Fiction

The Washington Post published an article on November 28 on the situation in Crimea that is a good example of the part-fact, mostly-fiction and falsehood that prevail in so much of mainstream media presentations of Russia, Ukraine and Crimea today.

The online edition of the article has the ominous title, "Crimea is becoming more Russian - and less hospitable to minorities." The headline in the print edition is "Crimea's uneasy slide into Russification." Neither headline is proven in the published product. The "minorities" referred to in the headline are ethnic Ukrainians, who constitute an estimated 24 percent of Crimea's population of 2.4 million, and Tatars, a people of Muslim faith who make up 12 percent.

The Post article was reprinted in the Toronto Star, Canada's largest circulation daily newspaper. It likes to think of itself as liberal. But the Star ceased to think and write for itself on matters Ukraine some months ago. It borrows from newswires for its coverage, selecting those stories that fit its editorial stand in support of Kiev's war and, echoing NATO, tell Russia that it should police into submission the pro-autonomy, anti-austerity rebellion in eastern Ukraine.

Now, can you Russian propagandists stop harping on the same idiotic tropes?

Now what will the "I hate the US" group on DU harp about.