Be skeptical about media coverage of Ukraine
American Thinker,
by
Rajan Laad
Original Article
Posted By: Beardo,
3/4/2022 9:23:26 AM
If you have been monitoring the coverage of the conflict in Ukraine, it is amply clear that a narrative is being pushed.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is being compared to Winston Churchill during World War II; he is leading his people during perilous times to become an inspiring figure. He refused a safe passage offer from the U.S. with the quip: “I need ammunition, not a ride”. He streams videos from the deserted streets of Ukraine and posts photos with his cabinet. Photos of Zelenskyy surface in military gear on the battlefront. To sum it up, Zelensky is being portrayed as Churchill, Rambo and social media influencers all rolled into one.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
downnout 3/4/2022 9:29:23 AM (No. 1089624)
I will take his advice to not believe everything we see, hear or read including his article. The fog of war obscures everything.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 3/4/2022 9:38:45 AM (No. 1089630)
Be skeptical about media coverage of everything.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 3/4/2022 9:39:26 AM (No. 1089632)
Lots of questionable reporting. That Russian convoy has been approaching Kiev for about a week now. An armada supposedly set sail for Odessa 2 days ago on what should be a 3-hour journey.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 3/4/2022 9:40:26 AM (No. 1089633)
You can always discount half of any coverage coming out of most media. Zelensky may not be Churchill but he is leagues ahead of our spineless President. Ukraine is indeed corrupt and so is Russia. More corrupt than the US and that’s a high bar to get over. If Hunter ever came clean he could probably tell us a thing or two about Ukraine corruption. So could “The Big Guy” but Russia is run by thugs and gangsters and probably worse.
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I knew it! Something has been off the whole time! Hillary and George W are praying we go to war! Money Money Money!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
smokincol 3/4/2022 9:48:51 AM (No. 1089650)
the diversion that is the Ukraine situation is deflecting the attention of the people of the United States to consider no other problems in our country ex: inflation, taxes, gas/oil availability, corruption in government and other such useful topics that take the attention of the people away from the pressing issues within our own country - I am tiring of Fox 24 hour coverage of Ukraine and watch the channel less and turn to Newsmax and OANN for my news and information - diapers, et al is/are creating a smoke screen of monumental proportions with this situation and we had better beware of things happening undercurrent
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
hershey 3/4/2022 9:55:05 AM (No. 1089666)
'Be skeptical about anything media says'...There I fixed the headline...
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The American public is proven susceptible to propaganda. Just add Ukraine to the list. Easy sell. Everyone loves an underdog. Berlin, er, Kief bleibt frei!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Quigley 3/4/2022 10:01:04 AM (No. 1089677)
Our pappy poopy pants siphoned money out of Ukraine using a drug addled bagman named huncher. Pappy recently bombed 9 children to death and shrugged his shoulders: “it was never going to go perfect” he mumbled. A Ukraine born homunculus tried to remove president Trump.
Bidet sent many provocative messages to Putin encouraging him to take this action. These included Afghanistan withdrawal, kamel a hairass and all her ravings, threats about allowing Ukraine into nato, giving him the non-Ukraine pipeline he wanted, killing keystone, killing US drilling and no doubt more. Now pappy says jan 6 inspired putin to invade.
Only The Gullibles believe what they are told.
This is what I remember about the Carter administration and its dealings with iran: it was just a political drama for them removed from any reality. Same with pappy. All he cares about is getting his numbers up and attacking his political domestic enemies.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
red1066 3/4/2022 10:02:13 AM (No. 1089680)
I'm like #6. I'm turning off Fox and watching reruns of shows that went off the air ten plus years ago. I don't mind a serious Jesse Waters or Gutfeld every now and then, but the look on their faces and the tones of their voices right now has become tiresome. They have gone off message which should be about Biteme and the direction of this country.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
greyseal 3/4/2022 10:02:36 AM (No. 1089681)
The other posters have it right. Contrast and compare two articles from AT posted here today on Lucianne, this one that repeats the neo-Nazi connections of the Azov battalion and another written by Oleg Atbashian at the top of the AT site that purports to show that this connection is Russian propaganda.
The "fog of war" indeed. Both sides are playing the media for all they're worth...
greyseal
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Right Time 3/4/2022 10:02:55 AM (No. 1089683)
No tears from me for Zelensky. Zelensky sat back and let the Democrats impeach President Trump when they totally misrepresented his phone call to Zelensky as a quid pro quo request (i.e., holding up US aid to Ukraine unless they investigated Hunter Biden), when he was asking Zelensky to investigate the corrupt Burisma payoff to the son of a US Vice President--who really was holding US aid to Ukraine ransom unless they fire a troublesome investigator.
Zelensky is as crooked as a dog's hind leg, and deserves everything bad coming his way. Too bad the innocent Ukrainians have to suffer.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
marbles 3/4/2022 10:04:27 AM (No. 1089686)
Resist emotional blackmail.Ukraine is the cesspool money laundering center of the world. There is much the left needs to protect to protect themselves.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
FLCracker 3/4/2022 10:11:05 AM (No. 1089695)
From #4, "Ukraine is indeed corrupt and so is Russia."
But as one Ukrainian lady said, they have the right to choose their own corrupt government, not have Russia's thrust upon them.
Putin has the power, ability and know-how to take over a country's government without turning his own country into a pariah state in the process. So why is he doing this? Does he plan on becoming Russian Emperor Vladimir the First of the Putin dynasty?
This is so..... archaic.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/4/2022 10:17:20 AM (No. 1089706)
Meanwhile I have no idea who Rajan Laad is and what his qualifications might be… I’ll have to take his opinion - and apparent enmity for Zelenskyy - with a grain of salt, too.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
GirlwithaCurl 3/4/2022 10:28:45 AM (No. 1089727)
After all, Zelensky is IN show biz!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
GirlwithaCurl 3/4/2022 10:31:17 AM (No. 1089732)
Observe the movie entitled, Hatred, though it is a Polish production, you'll see that the Ukrainian peoples are not all warm and fuzzy.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
NYbob 3/4/2022 10:36:46 AM (No. 1089746)
Advertising works and so does entertainment. Those industries have been refining how to manipulate emotions since humans started gathering around fires to tell stories. So many are either afraid of the truth or so trusting of what authorities/experts/reporters tell them, that they can see biden swearing and bragging about blackmailing the Ukrainian government in a video clip and laughing about it, and STILL not get it. A year or two later and they don't remember it. The confession/admission never happened because the bulk of the public have become mindless, emotional, tools. Ready to be herded into raging mobs, IF the criminals at the top actually start to feel a little heat. Heat created by people who remember the facts or heat created by the scum's own stupidity.
If collectively we are so scattered, so fearful, so timid and ineffective that we can't stop and then punish villains who corrupt our justice system so badly that they refuse to hear how MORE bogus votes than voters enabled a coup of criminals, what is there left to stop the end of American liberty and the success of international criminals?
It is an ironic universe so maybe the greatest blow to the globalist criminal class could be a communist KGB thug named Putin. I really hope Vlad lays out at least some of the corruption between biden, kerry, pelosi, romney, BO, clintons and others. If he adds to that the bio-weapon labs, even better. It is up to him because the scum in our media will never do it and the scum that did it get stronger the longer the info is hidden.
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Since I am seeing mostly things like screaming about how awful Putin is, vs the meek and mild and honest Ukrainian government, I find it easy to ignore the garbage coming out of our media. This is all about protecting the Ukrainian ATM machine for the politicians. If Putin really wanted to shut our congress up, he could drop a bunch of intel into the public venue about just who has dogs hunting in Ukraine. Starting with our Resident and work on down to congress.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 3/4/2022 10:58:44 AM (No. 1089775)
Skeptical?
How about not believing a dang thing they say or show?
Talk about "Wag the Dog". Not just telling lies, but showing faked videos, intentionally mis-translated speeches from both Russian and Ukrainian politicians, bureaucrats and soldiers. etc.
I don't know which has had the biggest Globalist propaganda effort.... Covidiocy or this 'war'.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 3/4/2022 11:00:23 AM (No. 1089777)
I don't believe everything the traitor media says or shows. That includes Faux.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 3/4/2022 11:02:14 AM (No. 1089780)
We haven't turned on the boob tube to get news in this house in a long while.
Lucianne
Patel patriot
X22 report
And a few others are where we go.
Laugh all ya like, today's nut is tomorrow's prophet.
So far these sources have been WAY ahead of the curve on everything going on.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 3/4/2022 11:28:24 AM (No. 1089808)
#22, and Rumble…
https://rumble.com/vw4t0e-what-the-media-is-hiding-about-ukrainerussia.html
TBIYTC
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/4/2022 11:40:47 AM (No. 1089829)
There is no doubt that there is big time psychological warfare based propaganda being used by both sides, and the the US media has jumped head over heels to report a lot of Ukrainian propaganda that cannot be verified. These days the average American should be doing a double take on everything that the media is telling them they must believe.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
pensom2 3/4/2022 11:42:03 AM (No. 1089833)
It's good to be skeptical. I have my doubts as well. Bear in mind however, that when we say, "After all, Zelensky is IN show biz!", the same was said 40 years ago about Ronald Reagan. One thing need not necessarily follow another.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Geoman 3/4/2022 11:56:44 AM (No. 1089851)
The many people who think they know all about Ukrainian corruption and what went on with Zelensky and Trump got their information from the same press that we're now being told their every utterance is pushing propaganda.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 3/4/2022 12:06:47 PM (No. 1089857)
#23 yes! Rumble, bitchute and truth social when it becomes available.
What is...
TBIYTC
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
FormerDem 3/4/2022 1:11:02 PM (No. 1089901)
Zelensky did not post the untrue videos. The position of the convoy is seen from space and it runs through inhabited areas. I think this author is guilty himself of some manipulation of appearances
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