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Old 04-24-2007, 06:58 AM
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Russian radio ordered to air 50% good news

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MOSCOW · At their first meeting with journalists since taking over Russia's largest independent radio news network, the managers had startling news of their own: From now on, they said, at least 50 percent of the reports about Russia must be "positive."

Journalists employed by the network, Russian News Service, also say they were told by the new managers, who are allies of the Kremlin, that opposition leaders could not be mentioned on the air and the United States was to be portrayed as an enemy.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nat...,7899147.story
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Arabs have AlJaz, we have Foxnews, and now the Russians have RNS.
Balance has been restored to the universe

So much for Glasnost.
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Old 04-24-2007, 11:05 AM
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I simply wish to live and work in the Russia not being afraid of a nuclear attack from the USA
You cant possibly be that stupid. What possible reason would we have to nuke you?

Cuba would be utterly powerless to stop us, yet we have never nuked them. We could nuke Iran tomorrow, and there is not a (*)(*)(*)(*) thing they could do to stop us.

Yet we havnt. So what makes you think we would nuke Russia, who we dont even consider to be an enemy? You people really need to get a grip on your irrational paranoia.

Its almost cartoonish. I would expect this from the uneducated masses of the third world...but I thought Russians would know better.

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For last years the USA have attacked Serbia
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occupied Iraq
...an enemy of the US ruled by a volitile dictator.

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and now are going to attack Iran
...an oligarchy that has threatened to wipe an ally off the face of the Earth.

You really dont see the difference between them and Russia?

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Russia and China are named by Minister of Defence of the USA possible enemies
China will never do that, because they need us. They need someone to buy all their goods, and they cant do that if we are enemies.

Russia may have little to lose by declaring the US its enemy, but China most certainly has a lot to lose.

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Russia (as Iraq and Iran) has a lot of oil and gas.
So does Canada. 40% of our imported Oil comes from Canada...not Russia or Iran or Iraq.

Now explain to me why we have not invaded them.
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So they are regulating truth? That is scary.
Oh come on. Quit living in your bubble. Like the American media doesn't do it just as much, just as extreme. Personally, I support that law and think it's great.
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Old 04-24-2007, 11:36 AM
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So they are regulating truth? That is scary.
Oh come on. Quit living in your bubble. Like the American media doesn't do it just as much, just as extreme. Personally, I support that law and think it's great.
Even knowing that we don't necessarily get the full truth here in the United States, we have many, many different sources from which to choose to inform ourselves on the news of the day. We also don't have de facto regulations on the truth in terms of percentage or mandate. We have far more freedom here and freedom generates truth far more than regulation does.

You claim that the American media does it as much and to the same degree as the Kremlin would have their media do. I don't think I need a bubble to believe that this is insane and employs moral relativism and existentialism to a degree that I believe is irresponsible. Our media is hardly regulated by the government, at least compared to the rest of the world.

You support a law that regulates the truth and even makes it criminal or treasonous to report the truth if it even creates a 1.1:1 ratio of bad news to good news? The news is made to report what happens, notwithstanding an internal media bias or an oversight or lack of public interest. The government, or any other collective, should not have any hand in regulating what is true and therefore what is reported. Although this will mean, and has meant, that the free market would determine what reproting gets airtime, my instincts and convictions tell me that even this isn't sufficient. The people should not dictate the means by which they delude themselves or brainwash themselves or feed themselves propaganda. Nobody, not even the free market, should dictate what gets reported and what truths are omitted or included. The truth itself should be afforded the ultimate, maximum, most absolute level of freedom.
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Looks like the rightwing looks more an more soviet-like every day....Faux News has acted as the propaganda arm and the tireless comrades from the rightwing have done not but whine abotu how "all the good things are not reported"....I would have to guess that this would be a move supported by the neocons/conservative Bushies.
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Your just mad because you would not help yourself. You wanted Putin, you got him.
but with Putin you won't have your democracy.
Bud,

why did you call him "mad"? He is absolutely right, IMO I have to say that we are tired of your attemts to IMPOSE your perverted style of Democracy to Russian society.
On a personal note, I see nothing scary in current RNS policy. YOUR media (as well as Hollywood movies) depicted Soviet Union/Russia as Evil Empire for years. Your media depicted Russians as criminals or barbarians for years. Should we be thankful for that?!
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Looks like the rightwing looks more an more soviet-like every day....Faux News has acted as the propaganda arm and the tireless comrades from the rightwing have done not but whine abotu how "all the good things are not reported"....I would have to guess that this would be a move supported by the neocons/conservative Bushies.
You think its propaganda because you don't believe in anything you silly liberal. Fox news isn't essentially propaganda because its the only conservative news station yet has the largest news audience by far. Do you really believe the liberal crap that you say or are you some rediculous mouth-piece hell bent on destroying everything our ancestor's sought,fought,worked and died for? Also, I don't support it because I'm a neo-con which itself makes no god(*)(*)(*)(*) sense and has no visible corrolation. I think it's a good idea because I'm sick of having bad news shoved down my thorat and headlining the god(*)(*)(*)(*) paper every freaken day. The only news in the news that isn't bad news is news they deem as good news because it furthers their stupid liberal destructive agenda. Which you would realize if you believed in anything.
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Looks like the rightwing looks more an more soviet-like every day....Faux News has acted as the propaganda arm and the tireless comrades from the rightwing have done not but whine abotu how "all the good things are not reported"....I would have to guess that this would be a move supported by the neocons/conservative Bushies.
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Looks like the rightwing looks more an more soviet-like every day....Faux News has acted as the propaganda arm and the tireless comrades from the rightwing have done not but whine abotu how "all the good things are not reported"....I would have to guess that this would be a move supported by the neocons/conservative Bushies.
You think its propaganda because you don't believe in anything you silly liberal. Fox news isn't essentially propaganda because its the only conservative news station yet has the largest news audience by far. Do you really believe the liberal crap that you say or are you some rediculous mouth-piece hell bent on destroying everything our ancestor's sought,fought,worked and died for? Also, I don't support it because I'm a neo-con which itself makes no god(*)(*)(*)(*) sense and has no visible corrolation. I think it's a good idea because I'm sick of having bad news shoved down my thorat and headlining the god(*)(*)(*)(*) paper every freaken day. The only news in the news that isn't bad news is news they deem as good news because it furthers their stupid liberal destructive agenda. Which you would realize if you believed in anything.

Justinian

Face facts studies have shown that those that watch Faux News in comparison to other news outlets were more likely to be utterly clueless about reality when it came to 9/11, Iraq and WMD's...like it or not its a fact.


Also was it not your side of the lemming patch that cried and cried and cried about how the news just wan't giving us the "good" news out of Iraq and the war on terror? Was it not your side of the aisle that whined that if we only heard about the good stuff that then the rest of us would become good little lemmings like you and duh?


Oh wait thats just what your arguing here eh comrade....well dos vedonia or however you spell it my little soviet booster! Shoot from now on I christen thee.... "little pooter".... in honor of your heartfelt whining for a more Soviet America!
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Putin is our democratic choice. Putin's support now 70-72 % in the end of the second presidential time. If you do not like Putin - means you not like democracy..

Stalin created order in the CCCP so if one hates Stalin does that mean one hates order ?

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