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The headline sounds very interesting but I was actually quite disappointed by the article itself. It doesn't offer any concrete examples or any attempt to actua
by DangerousPie 12y ago
The headline sounds very interesting but I was actually quite disappointed by the article itself. It doesn't offer any concrete examples or any attempt to actually validate what this guy is saying. It also doesn't even attempt to compare this to what the media landscape looks like in other countries.
If all that happened was that a "prominent news anchor reviewed the coming events as if they were part of a film script, musing on how best to entertain the audience and questioning who that week’s enemy should be" then this doesn't sound too different from what probably happens in some US news rooms as well.
I have no trouble believing that Russian TV is a propaganda machine and projects like the World Press Freedom Index [1] tend to agree. But this seems like a very weak article to make this point.
[1] http://rsf.org/index2014/en-index2014.php http://rsf.org/index2014/en-index2014.php
- imissmyjuno 12y agoI find it amusing that an article that's supposed to criticize a controlled media system is itself a thinly veiled advertisement. I guess mass media has issues everywhere you look :)
- DenisM 12y agoNew York times regularly publishes book reviews. They even have that thing they call "NYT Bestsellers" [1]. I'm not sure why that seems problematic to you? [1] http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/ http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/
- gwern 12y agoAs a book review, it's a near-complete failure. You hear very little about what the book recounts about Russian propaganda, which is the main interest; instead we get fluff about his school chess club used his Sovietness to intimidate others. That may be a cute biographical detail fine for a book, but is a waste of limited space in a book review.
- bayesianhorse 12y agoPlugging a book is hardly an issue comparable to for example 200 murdered journalists...