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As it looked for a foreigner, reading almost exclusively mainstream media, when I happened to come by, not only were not pro-staying experts shunned, rather I w
by nbabitskiy 7y ago
As it looked for a foreigner, reading almost exclusively mainstream media, when I happened to come by, not only were not pro-staying experts shunned, rather I was stunned for the outcome, because I never heard anything pro-leaving, or any expectation it would end this way.
Surely Brexit guys mean it not like Erdogan (i.e. jail time), but more like "if media don't serve as a feedback channel, both voters and elites could as well turn tvs off"?
It's very interesting to me, cause I observe experts in expertise everywhere in Russian media, and have been feeling lately, that they'll close themselves in no time, if they proceed that way, or turn into buzzfeeds.
- Chyzwar 7y agoMedia no longer try to represent the truth. Everyone lives in a bubble. People are being fed with carefully targeted bullshit. Your Russian propaganda machine is showing epic fail of the UK despite warnings from experts, highlighting that Putin navigates Russia with the more steady hand than these elected clowns. In the meantime in the US. Fox News is trying to persuade uneducated whites that Trump knows what he is doing. He clearly has no clue and just serves as a distraction.
- nbabitskiy 7y agoI didn't really mean "Russian propaganda machine" as nobody use it as bona fide media. I mean all over the world, in Fox, Guardian, Figaro or NYT, and all non state-owned Russian media, opinion pieces are not worth opening for some time. And it gets worse, since while the quality of reporting is worlds apart, the essence of it is converging. E.g. it's amazing to what extent (imho) all this media are over-reporting Trump, Putin or Brexit anti-heroes. It's hard to imagine, that any real person, with a life and a job, can be so invested in those people.