How the Kremlin and the Media Ended Up in Bed Together
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Editor's note: This is the longest text ever published by The Moscow Times. We've decided to publish it because it describes in detail a key Russian narrative, of how the Kremlin rules the country with the help of the controlled media. It is a bitter story of how the Russian media, with very few exceptions, have abandoned, sometimes through coercion, but mostly voluntarily and even eagerly, their mission of informing the public and have turned into creators of the Matrix-like artificial reality where imaginary heroes and villains battle tooth and nail in Russia's Armageddon.
After enjoying a brief interval of freedom, it seems that Russian media are now returning to the conditions of the late 1980s, when editors stood outside the door of the censorship office waiting for approval to go to press.
However, the "new censorship" that has emerged in Russia is not merely a tool for controlling the media from the outside. The new censorship is like a cancerous tumor that attacks the not-so-healthy body of the media from the inside and supplants everything of value or vitality with diseased tissue.
The president and senior officials now use the media as a tool for forming public opinion, forcing citizens to accept a false agenda in place of the real one.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article.php?id=517323
Won't be seeing self-appointed media critic Glenn Greenwald acknowledging this story, no fuckin' way in hell...The critical thinking DUer would do well to ask themselves "Why?"