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2023-11-12 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

'The camera captures everything.' Blood and the best shots of a front-line operator

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Posted by badanov 2023-11-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Ok why all this Regnum BS? Yes has snippets of truth but is very hard to read due to all the propaganda...

you've posted for 15 years, give or take...what gives with this?

Posted by FirstReadRantburgRightAfter911 2023-11-12 08:28|| 2023-11-12 08:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Simple enough: We get our news from the sources. In this case, we have both Russer and Uke versions of what's happening. Both sides rely heavily on nationalist propaganda, so y'gotta bang the two together to try and shake out the truth. It's what we've been doing for 22 long years, every day of the week.

Posted by Fred 2023-11-12 08:40|| 2023-11-12 08:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Thanks Makes Sense! Still hard to get through the propaganda..:)

Posted by Dan - FirstReadRantburgRightAfter911 2023-11-12 08:44|| 2023-11-12 08:44|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ Yes, there's a LOT of propaganda and lies on both sides. Badanov has done the vast majority of work in bringing what the two sides are feeding their people (and the outside world to some extent). AP and our wretched MSM are not much better at unbiased reporting, so you're getting spin there as well. The actual info buried can be hard to sift, but worth it

Posted by Frank G 2023-11-12 08:44|| 2023-11-12 08:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Given time, the lies fall out, like the 500 dead guys at the Baptist Hospital, like every "false flag" and "cui bono" argument I can think of.

Posted by Fred 2023-11-12 08:50|| 2023-11-12 08:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes totally understand, once I stumbled onto rantburg right after 9-11 have read every day (not much posting since around 2010 though)
But Regnum is the top of the chain for propaganda (well certain govt agencies maybe higher;)...just makes my eyes bleed...

Posted by Dan - FirstReadRantburgRightAfter911 2023-11-12 08:52|| 2023-11-12 08:52|| Front Page Top

#7 I hate to admit it, but the days are few when I read the whole thing, and it used to be my area of specialization.

Posted by Fred 2023-11-12 08:56|| 2023-11-12 08:56|| Front Page Top

#8 I am all for posting Regnum articles.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-11-12 09:07|| 2023-11-12 09:07|| Front Page Top

#9 @DoohDahMan
Cool...doohdah along with that...sorry but had to play on the words!
All good my eyes can bleed ;)

Posted by Dan - FirstReadRantburgRightAfter911 2023-11-12 09:10|| 2023-11-12 09:10|| Front Page Top

#10 regnum.ru is my go to source for news from the Russian perspective, as it has a wider variety of news than other Russian language publications.

I also would like to remind that something like 85 percent of all news stories in the west are institutionally generated by government and other organizations.

That is propaganda as well.

As to the story itself, it is what used to be called in journalism, a feature story, not hard news, but an exposition of a subject, in this case praising the subject for his work. I would like for someone to show me how this is propaganda.

Posted by badanov 2023-11-12 09:13|| 2023-11-12 09:13|| Front Page Top

#11 I went to the site, regnum.ru, I have no time to translate...from the pics seems to report on all russian culture

But what is posted on the Burg is over the top on hard russian nationalism that is hard to read the english translations, If that is journalism I want back Cronkite and the ignorant bliss we had pre-internet mass information...well not really :)

Posted by Dan - FirstReadRantburgRightAfter911 2023-11-12 09:32|| 2023-11-12 09:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Good luck if you're looking for anything but Democrat Party propaganda in American mainstream media.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-11-12 15:04|| 2023-11-12 15:04|| Front Page Top

#13 ^All sources have bias. You just have to account for it.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-11-12 15:12|| 2023-11-12 15:12|| Front Page Top

#14 I would like for someone to show me how this is propaganda.

Not so much propaganda as it is psych-ops. This seems like an attempt to get readers to view the author in a positive light, which in turn tend to color the reader's perspective of future articles by the same author.

Sometimes it backfire, badly...

At least that's my $0.02.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2023-11-12 16:18|| 2023-11-12 16:18|| Front Page Top

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