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Does anyone know why or where the negative bias comes from?

• kstop 13y ago
  The lack of positive news?
• ealexhudson 13y ago
  I was virtually in tears watching "Hunted" on UK Channel 4 last night. There's a great many things to love about Russia, but as a obvious data point I would be entirely scared to set foot in that country if I were LGBT.
• gopher1 13y ago
  You just need to look at history a little to see where the bias comes from. The Cold War lives on.
• NathanKP 13y ago
  I'd say it most likely has to do with the history of US and Russia relations painting perceptions of Russia. But I've definitely noticed a fairly deliberate effort from some sources to paint the absolute worst picture of Sochi. For example there was a popular Reddit thread in which one person was publicizing lots of pictures of the trashiest, roughest, most under construction areas of the city. Another Reddit poster claiming to actually live there followed up with a response full of his own pictures of nice areas criticizing the OP for cherry picking specific pictures to make Sochi look bad. But frankly between the stray dog killings, the seemingly rough state of hotels as publicized by Olympic journalists, this hacking scare, and Russia's vehemently anti LGBT policies there is a lot to criticize about Russia and not as much for the social and news media to praise.
• frankydp 13y ago
  I think it is a simple collision of fledgling free market behavior and slightly more mature free market behavior (West). I kind of equate the bias too the same way teenage siblings look down on the younger siblings. They are both kids but the slightly older ones are hugely biased in there way of thinking. I am mostly referring to the huge breadth of market laws in the West that have taken 75+ years to come up with, stuff ranging from OSHA to Titles 10, 31, 40, and 41.