Where is Snowden and who is paying his bills? Russia. Sounds an awful lot like the common whataboutism message Russia is pushing out to justify their media abus

Where is Snowden and who is paying his bills? Russia. Sounds an awful lot like the common whataboutism message Russia is pushing out to justify their media abuses. Yes, western media and US in particular could be much better. No, they are not even in the same order of magnitude in terms of control, manipulation and propaganda than Russian media. Basically a guy is sitting in country A and criticizing media of country B while getting both legal and financial support from country A. While he keeps dead quiet about the media practices of country A. While country A sees country B as a strategic adversary. This thing quacks very much like a duck and, since we should be mindful of the media we consume, shouldn’t we take his messages with a pinch of salt?