Sochi Boo!: A Propaganda Model

In sum, a propaganda approach to media coverage suggests a systematic and highly political dichotomization in news coverage based on serviceability to important domestic power interests. This should be observable in dichotomized choices of story and in the volume and quality of coverage.

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy Of The Mass Media, Edward S Herman & Noam Chomsky,

In sum, why do you think we are drowning under an avalanche of stupid stories about Russia right now, and what interests do you think it really serves?

Can you give me another explanation as to why every US and UK gay news media outlet is currently pushing out about five fucking stories a day - and why none of them are ever checked?

Is there nothing bad happening anywhere else?

Do you really think this is just objective, innocent journalism?

Even if the jerks who write this junk are too dumb to realise what's going on?

Bored now with arguing with braindrowned gayist goons.

Good day!
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Belgrade Pride: I Didn't Know You Cared

As I type the far Right/neo-fascist rioting triggered by the Gay Pride march in Belgrade is the fourth item on BBC TV News, and the second item on BBC Radio 4 News.
Thanks Auntie, I didn't know you cared.
But Pride events in other eastern European cities, including Bratislava, Moscow, Riga and Warsaw, have also been met with violence in recent years without them being considered newsworthy by BBC TV.
Fagburn wonders if this sudden but selective concern for gay rights in an eastern European country has more to do with the Western media having spent so many years demonising the Serbs and Serbia - our last Officially Declared Enemy before 9/11 - that this has become a Pavlovian response?
At least this time no-one is arguing that we should start bombing Belgrade.

• Reports from Belgrade's B92 here.