The Ukrainian presidential office has announced their intention to launch a worldwide Russian-language TV channel as part of an information war
with neighboring Russia. The channel will be state-run, but may include
some content from private Ukrainian channels that produce
Russian-language content.
“It must be admitted that Ukraine practically lost the information war
for the minds of people in the occupied territories of Donbass and in
occupied Crimea,” deputy chief of staff Kyrylo Tymoshenko told Ukraine’s
news agency.
This policy is particularly noteworthy since the separatist movement in
Donbass came in part because post-Maidan Ukraine’s government became
very hostile to the Russian-speaking minority, and tried to severely
restrict the use of Russian language.
Recently elected President Zelenskiy has promised to end the Donbass
rebellion. Assuming this ends up being something short of a very overt
propaganda channel, a Russian-language station could help bridge the
communications gap with the mostly ethnic-Russian East.
Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, that is progress for Ukraine. Perhaps Ukraine is beginning to learn from Russia to use some semblance of proper process and minimal violence. This means that Ukraine’s govt has to actually care what their people think… learning has occurred!
There is a problem, however. Ukrainian rabid nationalism is what West is counting on to absorb into NATO. Thus , the president elected on the strength of Russians and Russian speakers, and whose chief patron is in the exile in Israel, will have to create all the APPEARANCE of doing the right thing — and nit anger electorate, BUT will wear them down eventually into accepting rabidly nationalist agenda without visuals. Thus the media in Russian language will be to counter actual Russian media. This idea is hatched up elsewhere. But like Voice of America and Radio Liberty/Free Europe, it will not succeed selling outrageously silly narrative. This approach failed in Arabic already, and buying Al-Jazeera by restructuring its management just introduced neocon story telling under the guise of genuine media. Similarly Asia Times got infiltrated by neocon
Hopefully the many propaganda channels won’t do much, but I worry that in this post-journalism world they will get greater relevance just for being a source with an official-sounding name and news-like format.
Very true. The Cartel is having all the money they can generate on computer screens. No printing required. And without having the least concern for what happens to the society they will ruin, with the complete belief in own superiority will fund all sorts of information scams. But what will happen, they will be less and less believed. While majority of people may end up being zombified by the circus, and at once not believe anything. But the clowns of the circus are not really that equipped to run economy or care about boring details of domestic policy. They are intoxicated by global management, victory over all global enemies. You get the point.
We will over time seek secretly information outside the Borg control. And as the life gets harder, divisions among population deepened, our problems will take over our concerns. For now the debating clowns running for president have no clue what exactly will they do. Provided they will be able to do anything. So, noise and saturation of information sources all spreading same, highly questionable narrative — will result in tuning out.
It is the narrative that is stale — and not sellable. No matter how many sources will peddle it. With political parties starting to sound identical — with the exception of deliberate fringe individuals that like a reality TV diversify nonsense and entertain.
Yeah, word is that there was a Democratic candidate debate. I assume that if any of them say something meaningful and significant, I’ll find out. Otherwise tune-out complete, at least until my dubious duty of voting comes due.
I don’t think the west will let Ukraine into NATO not Georgia either
Agree. US prefers it this way. Interference by NGO’s Soros Open University, NED— all can flourish without meddlesome Europeans.