The New York Times has a long history of cooperating with three-letter agencies as a state mouthpiece. The irony of their publishing this article is delicious.
Can you provide some sources? Thanks.
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#22With the Russian situation being so dire, is it so hard for Western counterpropaganda to beat that?
Because the people it is targetting are so siloed, and so angry at the other side they don't really look past the information. The two sides that they are appealing to are not doing any sort of source evaluation on things that make a person they distrust look untrustworthy. They want that information to be true soooooooooo bad they are failing to do basic information literacy.
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#23With the Russian situation being so dire, is it so hard for Western counterpropaganda to beat that?
They have much better control of media. Social media can be attacked this way, but, like China, it's relatively trivial to push the public towards a "friendly" competitor.
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#24A Powerful Election Weapon: The Use of the Russian Boogey Man
That it can be used in a way you condemn doesn't mean it's not real. Or that it's not being used.
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#25With the Russian situation being so dire, is it so hard for Western counterpropaganda to beat that?
It's far easier to wreak havoc than to restore order.
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#26The New York Times has a long history of cooperating with three-letter agencies as a state mouthpiece. The irony of their publishing this article is delicious.
Not as delicious as this comment.
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#27Both Russian and American medias are two sides of same coin. Both are expert in spreading propaganda, only difference is American media is convincing and Russian media appears to be fake and there is no freedom of media in Russia and freedom of media is rarely used in the US.
I follow RT and NYTimes, and I can say both have left journalism long back.
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#28I use a simple method to recognize Putin's propagandists: Ask if someone is willing to condemn Putin for doing similar invasions as Hitler did in the 1930s. If the only answers you get to that question are personal attacks and attacks on USA, the person writing is probably working in St Petersburg and paid to write things on the internet. Edit: 1. I am not American "pabloski", at least get the unserious personal atta…
Are you sure they are not the USA who are doing similar invasions as Hitler? Do you remember? Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria ( through Al-Nusra aka Al-Qaeda, yes Al-Qaeda! ).
WTF, at least listen to Gen. Wesley Clark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8YtF76s-yM
How can you ( americans ) condemn Russia without an ounce of shame? I am an EU citizen, so I am not russian, not a Putin shill, not a payed troll.
And what about your propaganda machine? The shameless media who attack Donald Trump on each word he spells. The same media who fabricate war stories https://www.rt.com/news/356734-aleppo-child-image-china/
Read the article first, don't stop to rt.com to draw conclusions.
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#29Hacker News really needs downvote button.
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#30Both Russian and American medias are two sides of same coin. Both are expert in spreading propaganda, only difference is American media is convincing and Russian media appears to be fake and there is no freedom of media in Russia and freedom of media is rarely used in the US. I follow RT and NYTimes, and I can say both have left journalism long back.
Whatever anyone's qualms about the New York Times, I find it hard to take seriously any argument that puts it on the same level as RT. The New York Times is not in fact an instrument of the US Government.