LA Times: " disinformation to shape public opinion against Russia" Article In Pravda

[Better Believe It]

LA Times: A classic example of Disinformation
by Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY
PRAVDA.Ru
August 13, 2008

The opinion piece in the online version of the Los Angeles Times (2008.08.12) is a clear and classic example of the type of material western readers are being bombarded with in what appears to be an orchestrated campaign of disinformation to shape public opinion against Russia. As was the case in Iraq, the Western public is being duped by what amounts to a perverse act of manipulation... and is guzzling the bait hook, line and sinker.

The piece “Stand up to Russia” was shown to me by a Russian friend, who asked me to reply in PRAVDA.Ru, which was quoted in this two-page schmuckfest of unadulterated bilge. It could almost have been printed by the British Bullshit Corporation or written by that other insolent female who got a Pulitzer. Max Boot, “Senior fellow in National Security Studies at the Council of Foreign Relations)” is the name of the author in this case.

We now see clearly why the National Seecutiry Agency was so adept in defending the people of America on 9/11, as adept in fact as Washington’s (chuckle) military advisors were in Georgia.

When I read through this article last night, I thought, “Where does one begin?” I mean, it is one nonsensical piece of drivel from beginning to end, a tissue of lies and insults directed at Russia without one iota of truth from the first letter to the final period.

Please read the entire article at:

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/106083-0/

[barbtries]

1. i actually wish i knew the truth of this war.

couple notes: the writer doesn't actually deny that russia's aggression is in violation of international law. she does mention all the many, many reasons that the USA has no room to talk. and there's at least one sentence that i have to say i agree with entirely:

"The citizens of the USA are being misinformed, lied to and made clowns of by their own media."

on edit: so i googled the writer. interesting character. not necessarily edward r murrow or even greg palast imo. he is heavily pro Putin and apparently anti anyone else. still he did nail that one sentence at the very least.

[LSK]

2. I have been reading German press coverage

http://www.spiegel.de/international

[malaise]

3. "The citizens of the USA are being misinformed, lied to and made clowns of by their own media."

I said the same thing in another thread yesterday.

[bdamomma]

4. again our media is playing us for fools

and feeding us to go to war with Russia, I mean WTF, 2 invasions are not enough for these neo cons, cheney where is that MF'er???

and Condi out in Georgia fueling the fire of course. These people have no shame and whatever else you can think of.