Re: Here is an article well-worth...
- From: lorad474@xxxxxx
- Date: 27 Nov 2005 14:26:00 -0800
henry alminas wrote:
> For educational purposes only:
> ... reading. The title is:
>
> "Spinning Russia" and it is written
> by Julian Evans - a freelance journalist
> based in Moscow. It is found in "Foreign Policy"
> at:
> http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3311&page=1
>
> Here is just a bit about one of the new Kremlin
> "spin tools" - it is the English-language TV channel, Russia Today.
>
> "The channel''s chief editor is 25-year-old former Kremlin pool
> reporter Margarita Simonian. She says she has the strength to stand
> up to any Kremlin pressure, but when I asked her to name Putin''s
> greatest flaw, she paused for a long time, and said, ""It''s a huge
> country."" When I asked her what she meant, the pause was so long
> and awkward that I felt sorry for her and changed the subject."
>
> **********
> "I recently watched some early screenings at the Russia Today
> offices, and they reminded me of a college radio station. On the
> 6 o''clock news, the presenter started off by looking at the wrong
> camera. She spoke of riots in Iraq, and the screen showed pictures
> of a crowd of angry Muslims. The next story was about Iran trying
> to get nuclear power, and the screen showed the same angry
> crowd."
>
> BTW - has anyone had an opportunity to watch
> it? I would imagine that there will be a fair amount
> about them nasty low-down Balts on it with time.
> Best - - Henry
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Its only purpose would be to moniter current propaganda spew.
For educational purposes; two articles:
"Russia TodayNov 26 2005 5:33PM
Author of Russian media law to defend TV news presenter
MOSCOW. Nov 26 (Interfax) - Mikhail Fedotov, secretary of the Russian
Journalists Union, a former press minister and the author of Russia's
current law on the media, will defend the legal rights of news
presenter Olga Romanova, who on Thursday was barred from her studio at
Russia's REN-TV television station.
"He and I will start work today," Romanova told Interfax on Saturday.
"It's true that we won't start sorting things out before this evening.
All the details need to be studied, and so far I'm not ready to say
anything," Fedotov told Interfax.
He said he did not yet know whether "it will be a lawsuit or anything
else."
...
"Russian TV Anchor Taken Off The Air
25 November 2005 -- A well-known Russian television news anchor has
been taken off the air in what she today said was a case of censorship.
Olga Romanova -- the anchor of REN-TV's program"24" -- said security
guards at REN-TV blocked her from entering the premises last night.
The station had a reputation covering topics that were at times
critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin, but its ownership changed
in September, when a 35 percent stake in the company was sold to
Surgutneftgaz. At the time of the sale, Aleksei Makarkin of the Center
for Political Technologies noted that Surgutneftgaz is widely perceived
as close to the St. Petersburg "siloviki" in the entourage of President
Vladimir Putin.
Romanova said the station's general director told her she could no
longer host the program because her ratings had dropped and that
hosting the show five times a week was bad for her health.
Igor Yakovenko of the Russian Union of Journalists said the decision to
take Romanova off the air was censorship.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev described the incident as "a
clarion call that tells us that we have lost the last station that kept
even a little independence and objectivity."
(Reuters/AP)"
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/11/fdaa1957-5c3d-4234-a242-2ee30888e9d8.html
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