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"Virtually all of this is true about both USA and Russian media. " Really: LIST OF JOURNALISTS MURDERED IN RUSSIA [1] This is as obviously, laughably wrong a
by jollybean 4y ago
"Virtually all of this is true about both USA and Russian media. "
Really:
LIST OF JOURNALISTS MURDERED IN RUSSIA [1]
This is as obviously, laughably wrong as the "The DoD has 50 000 secret media men running around!!!".
Is 'Q' one of your 'sources' for that?
The US has largely a free press, and there's almost nothing you cannot say, and the government has very little, usually no control over information dissemination.
US President DJ Trump just spent 4 years screaming about the press, they literally banned him from Twitter and FB and you think 'Mr. US Government' is running the show?
US Gov. has no influence over 'Democracy Now' or 'Breitbart' or 'Mother Jones' or 'Joe Rogan' and barely has any influence with CNN/NYT etc. even though in those cases they obviously communicate.
There are innumerable sources of information available in the US.
Conversely, Putin directly controls most of the main 'information outlets' (i.e. RT, Russia One) as they are designed specifically to be propaganda outlets. He fairly aggressively censors outside information, though Youtube, Google are still available, he just fined Google something like $300M for conveying information he didn't want Russians to have access to i.e. the truth.
Of course Putin literally imprisons and murders journalists who dare publish information he disagrees with ...
... and of course they literally censor vast areas of the internet [2]
... and of course they literally ban large swaths of Social Media because they cannot censor it [3]
But keep trying to make that 'Russia and USA are the same' argument ...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roskomnadzor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roskomnadzor
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_Ru...
- pphysch 4y agoThe Pentagon has a huge "public affairs" work force, not to mention the ~60,000 undercover "signals reduction" force. https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-inside-militarys-secret-undercover-army-1591881 https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-inside-militarys-secret-u...