Russia Kicks Out Corporate Media

 

I had to laugh at this news story from yesterday. So Russia is going to punish disinformation (ake news) with a hefty fine? Naturally the BBC and CNN pulled their official journalists out. I wonder if they’re worried that the state could impose its own meaning of “disinformation”. Would a government actually tell reporters what's not allowed? ahem. Sort of like Biden and Harris threatening Facebook and Twitter for not being tough enough on news they don’t like. Already many Ukrainian officials have lied about Putin’s attack on Zaporizhzhia where a nuclear power station sits.

The United States ambassador to the UN said Russia was closing in on the nuclear reactor and the danger was “imminent”. Ukrainian government officials claimed the Russians were firing on all sides and radiation levels were up. All total nonsense as it turns out. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had to set the record straight that radiation levels were “normal”. So I guess Russia isn’t going to be lectured to about press freedoms from Western governments who gleefully shut down opposition at home. How many accounts has Facebook killed off? Twitter? And for putting out information about Covid from non-approved regime doctors?

Just when you start feeling bad for Ukraine, more Western lies get exposed and you start wondering who the good guys are in this whole war. Someone at work today mentioned how crazy Putin was for attacking a nearby country. She’d been watching the local stations and reading popular websites like Yahoo. I don’t blame her for thinking that. Vladimir Putin is a lot of things, few of them good, but he isn’t crazy. He wants control of what he sees as his sphere of influence. We’ve actually been in an information war for far longer than I even realized. I probably should have realized it sooner. The Russians stole the 2016 election, really?

The press keep getting away with lies like this. Even when they set the record straight years later, the damage is done. Too many Americans still think Putin conspired with Trump to steal an election.

The Democrat media complex is especially shameless on this front. Every bit of news that makes them look bad is Russian disinformation. The Hunter Biden laptop story where he is seen strung out on drugs was supposedly disinformation. Over 50 intelligence experts can’t be wrong goes the thinking. So interested in destroying the Biden campaign, are those sneaky Russians, that they cooked up this shameful ordeal to destroy the good name of a fine artist. Politico didn’t verify its authenticity; they just blasted it out there. Who needs to bother with the truth, just insinuate and carry the water for a while. When the election is over you can get your credibility back and explain how you never actually confirmed it.

Rush Limbaugh had a phrase for the main stream media, “Drive By Media”... Indeed.

Who can forget the “White Coat Summit” at the White House in July of 2020 where the frontline doctors promoted Hydroxychloroquine for Covid 19. They also took a few shots at Fauci if I remember correctly. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube all restricted sharing of the video due to “false information”. I’m surprised big tech didn’t blame Russia for this too. Moscow takes a lot of arrows for doing what big tech invented. Not that the Russians don’t have their own war rooms full of hackers trying to break into Western governments, but at a certain point the lie stretches too far. 

They aren’t even that strong of a country. They’re an energy state with a declining population.

But they have a strong leader who doesn’t apologize for drilling oil and trying to recover a sphere of influence. He is legitimately worried about NATO expanding too close to his borders, which is part of his beef with Ukraine. Ukraine wants to be under the NATO defense umbrella. 

I don’t blame him for insisting Western media outlets be fined for reporting lies about military advances. We know full well how all-consuming the media can be, even working against their own side if the politics aren’t right. I understand how letting a president tell  reporters what to say is a gross violation of freedom of the press. But we are so far beyond an honest press that the argument feels out of date. There are bright spots here and there but corporate media is largely an arm of the deep state. If you’re a leader trying to conduct a military campaign and the press is actively working against you, how would you react?

I’d kick them out too.