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RIA Novosti is a state propaganda outlet. There is no "mainstream media" left in Russia after they closed Echo Moscow and TVRain (Doschd).
by purerandomness 4y ago
RIA Novosti is a state propaganda outlet.
There is no "mainstream media" left in Russia after they closed Echo Moscow and TVRain (Doschd).
- JAlexoid 4y agoRIA Novosti is mainstream. Mainstream doesn't mean a particular political affiliation or even objectivity. It just means the most widely referred to. Dozhd and Echo Moskvy were never "mainstream", quite the opposite.
- acidioxide 4y agoBy mainstream media I mean media that is popular - people are reading it. Thoughts described there are so extreme there must be acceptance for such rhetoric.
- purerandomness 4y agoOf course it's accepted by big parts of the population. Propaganda actually works, that's why dictatorships keep using that playbook. The point is that it's pointless to try to quantify how many fell victim to propaganda. There is no meaningful way to assess it, since all metrics you'll try to use are under control of a totalitarian state that controls every single statistic.