People who are only just beginning to research what's wrong with the world often hold an assumption that mainstream news reporters are just knowingly propagandizing people all the time.
There seems to be an awful lot of trolls glorifying China and demonizing Russia.
Say China is a totalitarian state, with concentration camps, and sells freshly harvested organs throughout the world, on any social media site, and someone will pop up claiming to live, have lived, or is otherwise uniquely familiar with the place... claiming it's just all lies and propaganda.
Say Putin is a decent human being defending the honor of Russia against the NWO and you get the opposite drivel you hear posted on this comment section.
I believe they are most all products from the think tanks Caitlin is talking about.
These same people are probably spending a great deal of their time editing Wikipedia.
I am a retired American who lived in China for the past 7 years. 95% of what you believe about China is propaganda. You live in a news vacuum, much like North Korea. You get your "information" third hand from sources with an ax to grind or an agenda to promote. Get a passport. Travel. Find things out for yourself instead of being a tool.
Are you kidding me? The New York Times is doing it right. I’m from Russia, what is going on here is completely fucked up. Torture by law enforcement agencies has become a daily routine.
Do you want journalists to treat the authorities of my country with understanding and sympathy, because they are hate the West, democracy and human rights, but you do not want them to talk about how the terror of the authorities has become the norm in Russia?
Here is a post I made yesterday:
Torture of the police and special services in Russia is a common daily norm.
"Every tenth resident of Russia (the population of Russia is about 140 million people) faced violence or the threat of violence from law enforcement agencies. People are shocked, broken bones, stretching the body, sticking sharp objects, doused with boiling water, not letting them breathe. Almost all torture is associated with correctional institutions and law enforcement agencies. "
It is almost impossible to bring executioners to justice, they themselves investigate their own cases and there is one criminal case for every 50 allegations of torture; in many regions of Russia there is not a single criminal case for hundreds of allegations of torture. But even if an investigation is carried out, it is always established that there was no torture.
In the European Court of Human Rights, Russia has become the anti-leader in terms of the number of lost cases, most of the decisions (over 100) were made on torture. But an absolutely insignificant number of cases reach the European Court.
If you are so worried about the objectivity of journalism, please see what is happening with journalists in Russia:
The editor-in-chief of the Nizhny Novgorod edition of KozaPress, Irina Slavina, wrote on her Facebook on the afternoon of October 2: “I ask you to blame the Russian Federation for my death,” put an end to it, and a few minutes later set herself on fire on a bench outside the building of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs. Slavina died on the spot, she was 47 years old. She was driven to self-immolation by the incessant terror on the part of the authorities and law enforcement agencies:
Your account is totally distorted and distorting. It would take me a couple of hours to counter how much BS there is in your presentation not to mention your lack of comprehension of the reality in the West.
In Russia, civil society and the media exposes injustices and those responsible do answer.
Compare the Golunov case with the Assange case.
Compare the Pavel Ustinov case with the Red Fawn Fallis case.
When American cops and prison staff do torture it goes way, beyond anything reported and uncovered in recent period in Russia.
Both society's and peoples have to be vigilant and constantly focused on how the system is behaving, the difference is, in Russia Civl Society is active, affective and wins victories. In the USA and UK even the most liberal wing of society turns a blind eye to our injustices.
You are trying to pretend that there is no difference between countries like Russia and the West. You act just like Putin's propaganda on television.
They choose an isolated case of human rights violations or corruption in the West and say - you see, they have the same thing as we have, there is no difference.
It's a lie. There is a difference and it is huge. If you don't see the difference between a single case and many thousands of cases, then you are lying.
RATING OF COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD BY THE LEVEL OF POLITICAL AND CIVIL FREEDOMS
Those surveys are total Mi6/CIA bullshit they accept every lie about Russia while whitewashing the West. You are deluded. The West is responsible for the wholesale mass murder of millions of people. In the USA there are over 2 million people locked up in prison over 90% of whom NEVER had a trial. If a poor person goes to trial in the USA they face a 98% plus certainty of conviction. Let me assure you Russia is a very free country far more than the USA. As a Russian you do not live in fear of being shot dead by the police. Homelessness and criminalisation of the poor in the USA and UK is on scale that simply does not exist in Russia. The world's number one political prisoner and leading publisher/journalist Julian Assange is dying inside max security Belmarsh prison here in the UK. While American Indian activist Red Fawn Fallis was recently released after having done 4 years as a political prisoner in a max security US prison. They were both defending freedom and standing against injustice.
There seems to be an awful lot of trolls glorifying China and demonizing Russia.
Say China is a totalitarian state, with concentration camps, and sells freshly harvested organs throughout the world, on any social media site, and someone will pop up claiming to live, have lived, or is otherwise uniquely familiar with the place... claiming it's just all lies and propaganda.
Say Putin is a decent human being defending the honor of Russia against the NWO and you get the opposite drivel you hear posted on this comment section.
I believe they are most all products from the think tanks Caitlin is talking about.
These same people are probably spending a great deal of their time editing Wikipedia.
I am a retired American who lived in China for the past 7 years. 95% of what you believe about China is propaganda. You live in a news vacuum, much like North Korea. You get your "information" third hand from sources with an ax to grind or an agenda to promote. Get a passport. Travel. Find things out for yourself instead of being a tool.
Another brilliant piece to your already brilliant body of work.
The job listing seems a bit blatant for the New York Times. Where did it come from?
Isn't this what Hannah Arendt called the "banality of evil?"
Are you kidding me? The New York Times is doing it right. I’m from Russia, what is going on here is completely fucked up. Torture by law enforcement agencies has become a daily routine.
Do you want journalists to treat the authorities of my country with understanding and sympathy, because they are hate the West, democracy and human rights, but you do not want them to talk about how the terror of the authorities has become the norm in Russia?
Here is a post I made yesterday:
Torture of the police and special services in Russia is a common daily norm.
"Every tenth resident of Russia (the population of Russia is about 140 million people) faced violence or the threat of violence from law enforcement agencies. People are shocked, broken bones, stretching the body, sticking sharp objects, doused with boiling water, not letting them breathe. Almost all torture is associated with correctional institutions and law enforcement agencies. "
https://meduza.io/feature/2019/08/09/russkaya-shkola-yogi-kak-siloviki-pytayut-lyudey-v-rossii
(use Google translator)
It is almost impossible to bring executioners to justice, they themselves investigate their own cases and there is one criminal case for every 50 allegations of torture; in many regions of Russia there is not a single criminal case for hundreds of allegations of torture. But even if an investigation is carried out, it is always established that there was no torture.
In the European Court of Human Rights, Russia has become the anti-leader in terms of the number of lost cases, most of the decisions (over 100) were made on torture. But an absolutely insignificant number of cases reach the European Court.
https://www.znak.com/2019-01-24/rossiya_vozglavila_antireyting_stran_po_chislu_zhalob_i_proigrannyh_del_v_espch
If you are so worried about the objectivity of journalism, please see what is happening with journalists in Russia:
The editor-in-chief of the Nizhny Novgorod edition of KozaPress, Irina Slavina, wrote on her Facebook on the afternoon of October 2: “I ask you to blame the Russian Federation for my death,” put an end to it, and a few minutes later set herself on fire on a bench outside the building of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs. Slavina died on the spot, she was 47 years old. She was driven to self-immolation by the incessant terror on the part of the authorities and law enforcement agencies:
https://www.dw.com/ru/gibel-iriny-slavinoj-chto-govorjat-o-zhurnalistke-ee-druzja-i-kollegi/a-55148528
Your account is totally distorted and distorting. It would take me a couple of hours to counter how much BS there is in your presentation not to mention your lack of comprehension of the reality in the West.
In Russia, civil society and the media exposes injustices and those responsible do answer.
Compare the Golunov case with the Assange case.
Compare the Pavel Ustinov case with the Red Fawn Fallis case.
When American cops and prison staff do torture it goes way, beyond anything reported and uncovered in recent period in Russia.
Both society's and peoples have to be vigilant and constantly focused on how the system is behaving, the difference is, in Russia Civl Society is active, affective and wins victories. In the USA and UK even the most liberal wing of society turns a blind eye to our injustices.
You are trying to pretend that there is no difference between countries like Russia and the West. You act just like Putin's propaganda on television.
They choose an isolated case of human rights violations or corruption in the West and say - you see, they have the same thing as we have, there is no difference.
It's a lie. There is a difference and it is huge. If you don't see the difference between a single case and many thousands of cases, then you are lying.
RATING OF COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD BY THE LEVEL OF POLITICAL AND CIVIL FREEDOMS
1 Finland
2 Norway
3 Sweden
4 Netherlands
...
52 United States
...
175 Russia
https://gtmarket.ru/ratings/freedom-in-the-world
Those surveys are total Mi6/CIA bullshit they accept every lie about Russia while whitewashing the West. You are deluded. The West is responsible for the wholesale mass murder of millions of people. In the USA there are over 2 million people locked up in prison over 90% of whom NEVER had a trial. If a poor person goes to trial in the USA they face a 98% plus certainty of conviction. Let me assure you Russia is a very free country far more than the USA. As a Russian you do not live in fear of being shot dead by the police. Homelessness and criminalisation of the poor in the USA and UK is on scale that simply does not exist in Russia. The world's number one political prisoner and leading publisher/journalist Julian Assange is dying inside max security Belmarsh prison here in the UK. While American Indian activist Red Fawn Fallis was recently released after having done 4 years as a political prisoner in a max security US prison. They were both defending freedom and standing against injustice.
Watch the documentary FALSE CONFESSIONS
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/falseconfessions
I'd like to see a reply from Ms Johnstone.