Анализ небывалой за 20+ лет антироссийской волны в американской прессе
А я думал, что это мне одному кажется!
Я живу в штатах 23 года, и никогда не видел в американской прессе ничего подобного недавней русофобии.
К этой русофобии я причисляю обсирание Олимпиады (иногда явное, иногда легкое, сквозь зубы), а также навешивание вины на Россию за Украину.
Впрочем, этим статья, которую я увидел у pigbig не исчерпывается. Там много других открытий чудных.
Originally posted by pigbig at post
The degradation of mainstream American press coverage of Russia, a country still vital to US national security, has been under way for many years. If the recent tsunami of shamefully unprofessional and politically inflammatory articles in leading newspapers and magazines-particularly about the Sochi Olympics, Ukraine and, unfailingly, President Vladimir Putin-is an indication, this media malpractice is now pervasive and the new norm.
Distorting Russia: How the US Media Misrepresent Sochi, Putin, and Ukraine
by Stephen Cohen
UPD. Хорошо принстонский историк Стивен Коткин вклеил историку из Йеля Тимоти Снайдеру (который часто пишет агитпроп).
Еще интересный кусок оттуда-же: Автор статьи описывает, как профессор из Йеля ставит украинских революционеров в пример Европейцам:
http://www.thenation.com/article/178344/distorting-russia#
”Through remarkably large and peaceful public protests…Ukrainians have set a positive example for Europeans.” This astonishing statement may have been true in November, but it now raises questions about the “example” Snyder is advocating. The occupation of government buildings in Kiev and in Western Ukraine, the hurling of firebombs at police and other violent assaults on law enforcement officers and the proliferation of anti-Semitic slogans by a significant number of anti-Yanukovych protesters, all documented and even televised, are not an “example” most readers would recommend to Europeans or Americans. Nor are they tolerated, even if accompanied by episodes of police brutality, in any Western democracy.
... The now exceedingly dangerous confrontation between the two Ukraines was not “ignited,” as the Times claims, by Yanukovych’s duplicitous negotiating-or by Putin-but by the EU’s reckless ultimatum, in November, that the democratically elected president of a profoundly divided country choose between Europe and Russia. Putin’s proposal for a tripartite arrangement, rarely if ever reported, was flatly rejected by US and EU officials.
But the most crucial media omission is Moscow’s reasonable conviction that the struggle for Ukraine is yet another chapter in the West’s ongoing, US-led march toward post-Soviet Russia, which began in the 1990s with NATO’s eastward expansion and continued with US-funded NGO political activities inside Russia, a US-NATO military outpost in Georgia and missile-defense installations near Russia. Whether this longstanding Washington-Brussels policy is wise or reckless, it-not Putin’s December financial offer to save Ukraine’s collapsing economy-is deceitful. The EU’s “civilizational” proposal, for example, includes “security policy” provisions, almost never reported, that would apparently subordinate Ukraine to NATO.
Any doubts about the Obama administration’s real intentions in Ukraine should have been dispelled by the recently revealed taped conversation between a top State Department official, Victoria Nuland, and the US ambassador in Kiev. The media predictably focused on the source of the “leak” and on Nuland’s verbal “gaffe”-“Fuck the EU.” But the essential revelation was that high-level US officials were plotting to “midwife” a new, anti-Russian Ukrainian government by ousting or neutralizing its democratically elected president-that is, a coup.
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