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Russian Foreign Minister Praises Fox News For Presenting 'Alternative Points Of View'
"We understood long ago that there is no such thing as an independent Western media," said Sergey Lavrov, in an apparent exercise in projection.
By Ed Scarce March 19, 2022
Russia's own Minister of Disinformation, Sergey Lavrov, tried to paint Western media as all government-controlled, which is rich coming from a country like Russia where there are no independent voices and journalists are routinely silenced or even murdered. Lavrov appeared on RT (Russia Today) in an English-speaking interview in a piece obviously designed as a propaganda piece. His attacks on western media were particularly ironic.
Source: The Wrap
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had plenty of harsh words for "western media" on Friday except Fox News.
Lavrov gave an "exclusive" interview with the state-funded Russian TV news network RT, during which he praised Fox News for "trying to represent some alternative points of view."
During the interview, which was conducted in English, Lavrov took aim at "the West" and America in general, saying, "If there was any illusion that we could one day rely on our Western partners, this illusion is no longer there."
However, his comments regarding Fox News came during a diatribe about Western media. Read the full quote below.
Lavrov gave an "exclusive" interview with the state-funded Russian TV news network RT, during which he praised Fox News for "trying to represent some alternative points of view."
During the interview, which was conducted in English, Lavrov took aim at "the West" and America in general, saying, "If there was any illusion that we could one day rely on our Western partners, this illusion is no longer there."
However, his comments regarding Fox News came during a diatribe about Western media. Read the full quote below.
Lavrov's remarks:
SERGEY LAVROV: So we know the manners and the tricks which are being used by the Western countries to manipulate media. We understood long ago that there is no such thing as an independent Western media. If you take the United States only Fox News is trying to present some alternative points of view.
But when you see, you watch other channels, and when you when you watch, read the social networks and internet platforms, when the acting president was blocked, as you know, and this censorship continues in a very big way and the substitution of notions whenever something is happening by the way of mass protest mass demonstrations, which they dont like, they immediately call it domestic terrorism. So its a war, and its a war which involves the methods of information terrorism. There is no doubt about this.
But when you see, you watch other channels, and when you when you watch, read the social networks and internet platforms, when the acting president was blocked, as you know, and this censorship continues in a very big way and the substitution of notions whenever something is happening by the way of mass protest mass demonstrations, which they dont like, they immediately call it domestic terrorism. So its a war, and its a war which involves the methods of information terrorism. There is no doubt about this.
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Russian Foreign Minister Praises Fox News For Presenting 'Alternative Points Of View' (Original Post)
babylonsister
Mar 2022
OP
Kind of like Hirohito praising Tokyo Rose for her alternative point of view.
Liberal In Texas
Mar 2022
#5
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)1. "Thanks Fox for parroting Russian propaganda." - Lavrov
Like an obedient Republican BS Corporation, Inc.
tanyev
(42,550 posts)2. Yep, it's a regular Ministry of Truth.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)3. Kellyanne Conway revisited
Early-on under TFG, Conway defended the use of "alternative facts". Not surprisingly, the Kremlin propaganda / misinformation arm has emerged as "birds of a feather" with the right-wing media in this country.
eShirl
(18,490 posts)4. Wow, that's a good one!
Liberal In Texas
(13,546 posts)5. Kind of like Hirohito praising Tokyo Rose for her alternative point of view.
Like that is a recommendation?