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> You have so much faith in your media that you trust them to accurately summarise what other media says? Yes, I trust them in that respect. I do disagree with

> You have so much faith in your media that you trust them to accurately summarise what other media says? Yes, I trust them in that respect. I do disagree with quite many positions of Western society and their media. But I do trust them that they correctly summarize what Russian report about the war, which they are not allowed to call a war. As a foreigner who speaks Finnish I am aware of the weird myths that can be spread by foreign media who don't speak the language. If you search HN submissions for Finland/Finnish you will find some of those, many of those I would see much more nuanced. But I do trust that official Russia lying about the war is a fact.

zo1 5y ago
They look exactly the same as CNN except CNN is being forced to call it the "Ukraine war". E.g. in your example, RT toes the line to this "it's not a war" mandate by saying: Moscow maintains its military offensive in Ukraine is a “special operation” aimed at the [...] Quotes included, they're not saying it's Fact but that Moscow claims it is. Here is another one: Russia *attacked Ukraine* last week, *arguing that it was defending the DPR* and the neighboring Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), which broke away from Ukraine shortly after the 2014 coup in Kiev. *Moscow also said* it was seeking the “demilitarization and denazification” of the country. Meanwhile, Ukraine said the attack was entirely unprovoked and has appealed to the international community for help. Honestly, comparing the two front-pages of CNN and RT, I am positively shocked. Most of CNN's articles are skewed to portray Russia in a bad light, and the RT one seems to be a big list of sanctions and retaliations by the West against Russia. We need to see both.