{"id":16875,"date":"2014-04-18T11:54:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16875"},"modified":"2014-04-18T11:55:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:55:25","slug":"ukraine-through-the-us-looking-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/04\/18\/ukraine-through-the-us-looking-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine, Through the US Looking Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Consortium News<\/em> has the story Ukraine, Through the US Looking Glass<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nWhose Propaganda? <\/b><\/p>\n

However, on the Times\u2019 front page on Wednesday was a bizarre story<\/a> by David M. Herszenhorn accusing the Russian government of engaging in a propaganda war by making many of the same points that you could find \u2013 albeit without the useful context about Parubiy\u2019s neo-Nazi background \u2013 in the same newspaper.<\/p>\n

In the article entitled \u201cRussia Is Quick To Bend Truth About Ukraine,\u201d Herszenhorn mocked Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev for making a Facebook posting that \u201cwas bleak and full of dread,\u201d including noting that \u201cblood has been spilled in Ukraine again\u201d and adding that \u201cthe threat of civil war looms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Times article continued, \u201cHe [Medvedev] pleaded with Ukrainians to decide their own future \u2018without usurpers, nationalists and bandits, without tanks or armored vehicles \u2013 and without secret visits by the C.I.A. director.\u2019 And so began another day of bluster and hyperbole, of the misinformation, exaggerations, conspiracy theories, overheated rhetoric and, occasionally, outright lies about the political crisis in Ukraine that have emanated from the highest echelons of the Kremlin and reverberated on state-controlled Russian television, hour after hour, day after day, week after week.\u201d<\/p>\n

This argumentative \u201cnews\u201d story spilled from the front page to the top half of an inside page, but Herszenhorn never managed to mention that there was nothing false in what Medvedev said. Indeed, it was the much-maligned Russian press that first reported the secret visit of CIA Director John Brennan to Kiev.<\/p>\n

Though the White House has since confirmed<\/a> that report, Herszenhorn cites Medvedev\u2019s reference to it in the context of \u201cmisinformation\u201d and \u201cconspiracy theories.\u201d Nowhere in the long article does the Times inform its readers that, yes, the CIA director did make a secret visit to Ukraine last weekend. Presumably, that reality has now disappeared into the great memory hole along with the on-ground reporting from Feb. 22 about the key role of the neo-Nazi militias.<\/p>\n

The neo-Nazis themselves have pretty much disappeared from Official Washington\u2019s narrative, which now usually recounts the coup as simply a case of months of protests followed by Yanukovych\u2019s decision to flee. Only occasionally, often buried deep in news articles with the context removed, can you find admissions of how the neo-Nazis spearheaded the coup.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Of course, you never know who you can trust to report anything, if indeed there is anyone you can trust.  However, it is that accusations like the one in this article against The New York Times have been proven to be true in the past.<\/p>\n
It makes me think I may have been right in my opinion of The New York Times story in my previous post Investigation Finds Former Ukraine President Not Responsible For Sniper Attack on Protestors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Consortium News has the story Ukraine, Through the US Looking Glass. Whose Propaganda? However, on the Times\u2019 front page on Wednesday was a bizarre story by David M. Herszenhorn accusing the Russian government of engaging in a propaganda war by making many of the same points that you could find \u2013 albeit without the useful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16877,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875\/revisions\/16877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}