Here’s why our media are hypocrites for praising Russian ‘propaganda’ protest
Take a gander at this:
Wonderful – we need to do more of this here pic.twitter.com/v5QRefZj43
— Jackie Walker – HRH, MP, MBE, ABC (@Jackiew80333500) March 15, 2022
It’s a reference to a placard protest by Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor at Russian state-controlled TV Channel 1.
Her placard read: “No war, stop the war, don’t believe the propaganda, they are lying to you here.”
She was arrested, and has been fined 30,000 roubles for breaking protest laws in that country. A lucky escape – the maximum punishment is 15 years in prison.
It was a brave protest in the face of state censorship – but it has brought on a wave of hypocrisy from the west.
News outlets here in the UK have universally praised Ms Ovsyannikova – but have shown hardly a scrap of support for someone in prison in this country for doing much the same:
In UK where #journalist and #whistleblower Julian #Assange is locked up in prison, persecuted and ignored by #media,
the shameless @bbcnews is celebrating a #Russian journalist invading the studio to protest against the invasion of #Ukraine.#FreeAssangeNOW #FreeAssange pic.twitter.com/qz6ziLZBDN
— Olufemi Okeniyi (@femiokes) March 15, 2022
Both are journalists, both whistleblowers.
But here in the UK, one is raised up for praise while the other is cast down and ignored, even though his fate may be worse than hers could have been.
Doesn’t that make the UK’s news outlets just as bad as those in Russia?
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