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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 08:00 PM Mar 2022

Russian foreign minister praises Fox News coverage of war in Ukraine

Last edited Fri Mar 18, 2022, 09:17 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: theguardian.com

Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has praised Fox News for its coverage, appearing on the Russian state-controlled RT network to hail the right-leaning US cable channel, whose primetime host Tucker Carlson has played down the invasion.

“We know the manners and the tricks that 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,” said Lavrov, speaking in English in a studio interview on Friday.

“If you take the United States, only Fox News is trying to present some alternative point of view,” he said.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/18/sergei-lavrov-praises-fox-news-coverage-ukraine



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Russian foreign minister praises Fox News coverage of war in Ukraine (Original Post) L. Coyote Mar 2022 OP
Will they be changing their slogan again? How about, "We're Russian Approved"? sinkingfeeling Mar 2022 #1
Seditious R US L. Coyote Mar 2022 #2
Putin Approved BlueIdaho Mar 2022 #3
. dalton99a Mar 2022 #4
Good one. L. Coyote Mar 2022 #5
"Fox News is not independent. It is ours." Marcuse Mar 2022 #6
The weeping syphilitic sore that murdick is must be so proud The Jungle 1 Mar 2022 #7
Murdoch is an Australian. L. Coyote Mar 2022 #8
I was on a insult roll. The Jungle 1 Mar 2022 #10
Sergei Lavrov (aka Scott Lame) discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2022 #9

Marcuse

(7,479 posts)
6. "Fox News is not independent. It is ours."
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 10:17 PM
Mar 2022
“We know the manners and the tricks that 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,” said Lavrov, speaking in English in a studio interview on Friday.

“If you take the United States, only Fox News is trying to present some alternative point of view,” he said.

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,479 posts)
9. Sergei Lavrov (aka Scott Lame)
Sat Mar 19, 2022, 10:22 AM
Mar 2022

The Boss jock with the Boss sound from the Boss list of the Boss 30 that my Boss told me to play.

Interesting name change.

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