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US media leaves Ossetian war anniversary untouched
Published: 11 August, 2009, 13:16
On the first anniversary of the war in South Ossetia, many in the region are taking time to reflect. In the US, however, there’s almost no mention of the conflict, so heavily covered just a year ago.
US media is simply PROPAGANDA!!!
The only time they'd report on it is if they can blame Russia with their false propaganda. BBC has done that a few times within the week
Yes, what are they going to say, this is Fox news reporting a year after we failed to cover up for a Georgian war crimes. This is CNN, reporting live, with all these live South Ossetians that we wanted dead. Difficult story to tell! Let's cut to a commercial!
All media is propaganda, you guys are fools if you don't think this site isn't Russian propaganda. I have no idea why the global media left this untouched. Maybe people don't care about it, its all about the ratings.
American news media has been supportive of Tbilisi because the clever Georgians had lobbyist greasing the palms of US media and government officials before Saakashvili launched his war. I think the American people have come to realize that they have had the wool pulled over their eyes by the Georgians and their "greasemen" in Washington. All it will take is for a professional American network reporter to go to Osseti and report honestly what happened and how the Ossetian people suffered from Saakashvili's attack. This will open the door for other networks to follow.
Sean you obviously have not read the facts about what happened to South Ossetia. The facts are NOT propaganda! South Ossetia was attacked by Georgian military ( and Ukranians with American advisors as well) in the middle of the night. Civilians were the MAIN targets. It is called a war of genocide and terror. The Russian military came in and saved the poor people of South Ossetia and MAY GOD BLESS THE RUSSIANS FOREVER for this action. The USA is NOW the biggest war monger in the entire world! And they are at war everywhere or settting up their evil puppets where ever they are able to BRIBE their way in. If they cannot get their guys in place they KILL the opposition and try to blame the Russians. I am a native born American and I have never been more ashamed of this country in my 60 plus years than I am now. And to think I used to be proud of this country. If I could I move someplace decent, someplace with dignity, someplace with HONOR, like South Ossetia, Abhazia or Russia. If I were just younger....
August 11, 2009, 11:12, Marzipan6 wrote > It’s not only the US media that leaves the war untouched – world media in general seems to leave it largely untouched, too. Unlike RT, which is running such an amazing profusion of articles on it from every possible angle of Russian spin. The reason may well have to do with Russia’s need to project its contentions (in the entire world only Nicaragua has recognised the Georgian breakaway splinters as nations), and the world’s lack of need to convince anyone of anything. They all saw Russia’s behaviour for what it was, they all view it in much the same way, and there is no one out there left to convince. Thank GOD for Marzipan6! Please keep speaking up for the "silent" majority or shall I say "silenced" majority!
I found a few articles about Georgia this weekend - one on CNN, one on BBC, and another on the editorial page of the UK Telegraph. They pretty much all started with "Saakashvili says . . ." and then read like a Georgian press release. I'm sure there were no reporters actually IN the Caucasus. I mean, the Georgia war is SO "last year", and we all have such short attention spans. The various editorial staffs of the major news outlets have plenty to distract them, so that anything short of major warfare in the Caucasus is probably not worth writing about. It was a busy weekend, with sports, back-to-school sales, mini-riots in Congressional offices over the national health plan, and a real riot in a California prison. But what really has editorial staff paralyzed, like deer caught in headlights, is the story about the FBI "whistleblower" and her deposition, which points to possible treason all the way to the White House in 2001. "ZOMG, what are we going to say about THAT! Who will clear this story in the new White House? Does Cheney know we have this story? Eeek!" Nobody is talking about the FBI whistleblower except BradBlog, Alex Jones, and a handful of other internet bloggers who got some leaked information. The Georgian war is getting pushed to the back of the stove, because 9-11 just got moved to the front.
It is not on the news in America because we all know what really happened and do not need anymore convincing. Plus we have our president turning our country into a weak socialist country, so we have bigger issues to worry about.
You should be here! Media is so preoccupied on health care, democrats and republicans and the USA is becoming communist, or whatever... Country is turning into a circus I believe...
August 11, 2009, 14:10, Sean wrote > All media is propaganda, you guys are fools if you don't think this site isn't Russian propaganda. > I have no idea why the global media left this untouched. Maybe people don't care about it, its all about the ratings. All media has it's spin doctors, whatever will get ratings up. Doesn't necessarily have to be true either.
It’s not only the US media that leaves the war untouched – world media in general seems to leave it largely untouched, too. Unlike RT, which is running such an amazing profusion of articles on it from every possible angle of Russian spin. The reason may well have to do with Russia’s need to project its contentions (in the entire world only Nicaragua has recognised the Georgian breakaway splinters as nations), and the world’s lack of need to convince anyone of anything. They all saw Russia’s behaviour for what it was, they all view it in much the same way, and there is no one out there left to convince.