Recent events in the EU parliament sitting in Strasberg has not only raised the ire of the bear it has openly shown its disregard of those who dare to question the EU's idea of democracy.
The EU Parliament adopted a draft resolution proposed by EU lawmaker from Poland, Anna Elzbieta Fotyga, on EU strategic communication to counteract propaganda against the bloc by third parties, which says that Russia is allegedly engaged in propaganda against the European Union.
'For decades the EU has been lecturing Russia and touting freedom of speech as one of its core principles, but hypocritically dismissed it as an unnecessary luxury once their narrative was challenged', RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said.
Neither RT nor Sputnik tug at their forelocks when reporting events not only in Europe but also globally. It is becoming more and more apparent that certain media outlets flout with the truth when it comes to news reporting. MH17 and MH330 are prime examples of exaggeration, falsification, and opinion from MSM rather than accuracy when filing reports from so called balanced journalists.
As an ex pat Englishman, now residing in Australia, I am truly disappointed in how the Australian press by and large report on international issues of importance.
Commercial television stations are obviously interested more in ratings and revenue than balanced reporting, this has become the norm for them and as a result their news items are, in the main, not taken seriously.
Australia's last federal election bears testimony to that when telling the public how bad the Australian Labor Party is and how we should vote for those Liberals. As it turned out the Liberals did gain government but not because of MSM bias. They were re-elected with a significantly reduced majority, whilst minor parties gained seats from most areas across the nation.
As for the EU and its recent action, one can only gasp at the idiocy European parliamentarians and wonder at their idea of reality.
RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan also slammed Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres, or RSF), which she said was selective about journalists it chooses to protect.
“Reporters Without Borders is no longer pretending to protect journalists from all over the world and has finally proved it protects reporters only of its own little world,” she said.
Earlier in the day, Sputnik’s head of the German service, Christoph Dreyer, addressed RSF, a non-governmental organization that is supposed to stand for press freedom, regarding the adopted EU resolution designed to “respond to information warfare by Russia.” The inquiry was dismissed as RSF said it no longer gives comments to the news outlets belonging to the Russian media group Rossiya Segodnya.
The EU resolution was adopted in Strasbourg with 304 MEPs supporting it, 179 voting against and 208 abstaining. It was drawn up by a Polish member of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group, Anna Fotyga, and is based on a report dubbed ‘EU strategic communication to counteract propaganda against it by third parties’.
The report says that Russian media attempts to “distort the truth, provoke doubt, divide the EU and its North American partners, paralyze the decision-making process, discredit the EU institutions and incite fear and uncertainty among EU citizens.” The document singles out RT, Sputnik news agency, the Rossotrudnichestvo federal agency and the Russkiy Mir (Russian World) fund as being particularly devious tools of propaganda.
The resolution is a sign of the “political degradation” of the western “idea of democracy,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said, commenting on the development. “Everyone tries to lecture” Russia on democracy, and at the same time European lawmakers use restrictions, “which is not the best way” to handle issues, he added, congratulating RT and Sputnik journalists on their work.
It is a fact now that one must look very carefully at what is read, posted, or watched from the media.
We have been bombarded by media op-eds that Russia is enemy #1, for me enemy #1 is the deceitful western media who spew endless propaganda so that we end up with hate for a country and population that presents no threat; unless provoked.
Poking the bear is something to be avoided in my view. Work with it not against it.
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