This whole article is rubbish by the way. This guy grew up in London, and here the article describes his TV experience: > FOR a time, at least, Mr. Pomerantse

This whole article is rubbish by the way. This guy grew up in London, and here the article describes his TV experience: > FOR a time, at least, Mr. Pomerantsev, now 37, seems also to have been at home in the raucous world of middlebrow Russian television, making films about gold-digging women (hunting men known as “Forbeses” — as in the Forbes list of the wealthy), ruthless gangsters and sinister cults. From the sounds of it, he never even worked on news programs, just producing TV shows and movies. And this is someone the NY Times considers an 'expert' to 'uncover' the Russian propaganda machine? While you want to talk propaganda, how about maybe bringing up the fact that this guy is a Brit. He lives in London, and his family moved away from the Soviet Union before it broke up. How about you talk about the fact he wrote a book, is obviously trying to drum up sales by virtue of the fact he's writing about propaganda while he was himself personally involved in low-brow TV shows. Yet this makes it to the NY Times and front page of HN by virtue of? It's like getting a producer of real housewives of whatever to talk about US coverage of the Iraq war... tl;dr - this guy produced shows about: > making films about gold-digging women (hunting men known as “Forbeses” — as in the Forbes list of the wealthy), ruthless gangsters and sinister cults. What does he know about propaganda... And HN is eating this up, talking about Russian propaganda like this article had something to say.