Showing posts with label Nemstov. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nemstov. Show all posts

Monday, March 2, 2015

Progressive "left" falls for media propaganda spewed by NYT — Bill Moyers Morning Reads and the NYT

This AM, Bill Moyers Morning Reads news summary that generally blows the whistle on the outrageous contains a link to this instead of blowing the whistle on it:
There Are No Longer Any Limits” — On Friday, shortly after calling for Russians to engage in a mass protest against Vladimir Putin’s leadership, Boris Nemtsov, one of Russia’s most effective opposition leaders, was gunned down as he walked across a Moscow bridge. In the NYT Magazine, Julia Ioffe writes that the shooting has unnerved “Moscow’s embattled liberals” and says the Kremlin is “muddying the waters” around Nemtsov’s killing with an array of improbable theories about who perpetrated the crime.
Even the Moyers people are drinking the Kool-Aid. I don't think that they are consciously or intentionally spewing the propaganda line, but they seem to have been taken in by it. I guess they have forgotten about Judith Miller and the NYT belated apology for hyping the Iraq war based on propaganda.