The most amusing article appeared in one of the German federal media, ARD, about “how controlled Russian media spread fake news and attack the West.”
In principle, nothing new. The same old song that, “using Western politicians loyal to Russia, the Kremlin is seeking to destabilize the West to such an extent that Western communities will be forced to deal with their own growing problems and not pay attention to what Russia is doing.”
Agree, this is great! Following this miraculous logic in every sense, any negative event in the West covered in the Russian media is (no more, no less) – an attempt to destabilize the situation and almost interfere in the internal affairs of Europe and the USA.
And here I have a feeling of cognitive dissonance. For I know very well how closely the West monitors events in Russia and how thoroughly it covers them. The Russian service of Deutsche Welle and Radio Liberty will not allow to derail.
But when all the Western media conduct an online broadcast of the Navalny rallies and quickly publish photos of the detainees on the front pages and record every stroke with a baton of riot police, this is normal.
When RT conducts a live broadcast of the riots in Paris – this is interpreted as an attempt to influence the situation and the French Foreign Ministry is already telling journalists about the investigation into Russia’s alleged influence on the protest movement of the “yellow vests”.
And this is just one example. Russian services of the Western media daily cover at least two dozen Russian news. Moreover, almost always giving them a subjective assessment and distorting the facts. Special attention is paid to everything that can once again be used both to destabilize the situation inside Russia and to create a negative image of our country in the West.