mjmj schreef op 19 juli 2014 00:27:
Russische propaganda... manipuleren het nieuws voor hun eigen burgers.
The downing of MH17 over eastern Ukraine was the main story on the front pages of most newspapers around the world on Friday. Not so in Russia, where the state-run Rossiyskaya Gazeta led with a story about the eating habits of Russians, relegating the 298 deaths on board MH17 to the bottom of the front page.
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The Russian twittersphere was awash with conspiracy theories about Ukrainian or even US involvement in the downing of the plane. The boss of the Kremlin's English-language television channel, Russia Today, wrote on Twitter that she despaired of people jumping to conclusions about what had happened, shortly after retweeting an opinion saying that Ukrainian "freaks" were behind the attack but would attempt to blame pro-Russian rebels.
However, one of the channel's British reporters, Sara Firth, appeared to go off message with a series of disparaging tweets in which she said the channel's reporters were engaged in lies.
In comments that are likely to embarrass the channel, Firth wrote: "We do work for Putin. We are asked on a daily basis if not to totally ignore then to obscure the truth". Shortly afterwards Firth resigned and tweeted that she is "for the truth".
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www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18...