So what is the difference between a Free Press and a Controlled Press? In America you would think none these days - for under Clinton he paid off some of the news commentators which is obvious and I know about this type of payoff for once I used to send out plain white envelopes to certain newsmen - this old man who was millionaire Sports Promoter - and t was payolla....I was so shocked I said why do you do this.....so he stopped and this one NBC newsman got ahold of a guy by the name of Barnhard and wanted to run this dear sweet man out of town and he said - it is easier to pay a few bucks and get the promo you need, than to battle - unknown to the newsman the guy he wanted to run my old boss out of town, was a friend.....and this guy was a Mason? So it takes all kinds.......Larry Flynt has the only Free Press in America and he can print what he pleases - he can use sodomy in advertising and he is a great American? Wonder how he would fly in Russia? Probably very well. So William Randolph Hearst used thugs to run his competition off the streets - this is how the politicians play today - do not want honest competition - they want to smear, slander, theaten and murder their way into office. George Bush took the high road - had he taken the low road he would have won by a landslide....how many illegan aliens voted for Gore? So Putin - take a good look here - this is your Mafia - remember Victor Reisiel - most do not; Johnny Torrio a hoodlum threw acid in his face and blinded ihm and it took JFK and RFK to try to throw this Mafia and in particular this Meyer Lansky Mafia, out of America - look what happened to them:? Ah but here you see from this article, the big boss....the big kahuna - the head of the KGB who like Clinton loved to torture children - Waco? Chechnya - Putin ordered his troops to refused medical treatment to two little 14 year old boy and their legs were amputated - for shock appeal they put pictures in newspapers as a warning....for the "iniquities of the fathers will be visited upon the children"/ And this Louis Freeh breaks bread with KGB as did this fat pig Madeine Albright? Pleading to builld up our defenses? KGB in our FBI - it too Bush to get elected to week that bastard out did it not? 16 years in the FBI and what about the Japanese sharpshooter in West Point hired by FBI to murder a little kid, his dog, and then blew face off his mother? Interesting article here - and remember EU - hey they have a making of a good Nazi Regime for lo and behold - it is the new Milleninium and they are all coming out of their closets - regular coming out parties, Gay Pride Flags and All sporting the Red Star. Give me the Southern Cross - these people are a minority and one of us is better than a 1000 of them....for the traitors have come home to roost - only its a bad year for migratng birds. This is Organized Crime - this is the Mafia and the 300 in Action - These are the people responsible for the murder of 55 illion people in WWII.....these are the people who murdered the Kennedys, shot Wallace and Reagan and murdered MFL (who was nothing but a pawn and maybe did not know it - but he did take a new name) - in essense, this is your life NWO, Murder Inc......and Putin, We Hardly Knew Ye... Saba Advertise Your Banner Here March 07, 2001 Show It Off!: Get "The Map" Rush Talked About Terror Threatens Russian Media's Future NewsMax.com Wednesday, March 7, 2001 Russia's sole privately owned TV station is threatened by a rebirth of Soviet-style repression and may not survive. And the station is not alone in being victimized by President Vladimir Putin's bizarre view of the media's function, which he believes to be one of solely serving the government. Under any circumstances, NTV is a prime target of Russia's security forces because it is owned by Vladimir Gusinsky, the former oligarch whose arrest and imprisonment stirred international protests. Since his release he has fled Russia and is living in exile. NTV's bank accounts have been frozen, according to Britain's Sunday Telegraph, which reported that the offices of its parent company, Media-Most, have been raided by armed tax police. Journalists working for Media-Most, which owns newspapers, magazines and Moscow's only independent news radio station, Ekho Moskvy, report that have been harassed, denied admittance to government press conferences and even given unsolicited assignments from state-owned media groups that somehow have obtained their home telephone numbers. Most observers say it is only a matter of time before Media-Most and its NTV are seized by the government. Alexei Venediktov, the chief editor of the radio station, Ekho Moskvy, told the Telegraph that Putin told a recent meeting of Media-Most's journalists: "Your job is to support the state." Venediktov said he was stunned by Putin's "profoundly Soviet worldview." "I told him, 'We are not an instrument of the state,' " he told the Telegraph. "He didn't know what I was talking about. He thinks that there is state press and anti-state press. He actually doesn't understand that the press might play an independent role in a civil society." According to the Telegraph, there are "dark rumors" circulating about Gusinsky's behavior. He borrowed large sums from Gazprom, the state-controlled natural gas giant whose interests are closely tied to Putin's. It has filed suit for its money, which it wants in the form of controlling interest in Media-Most – a tactic that would spell the end of NTV's independence. Where financial pressure doesn't work in subduing Russia's free press, Soviet-style terror tactics are being used. For example, at Novaya Gazeta, a feisty Moscow biweekly newspaper with a circulation of about 100,000, the Telegraph reports that one journalist has been murdered and another unexpectedly arrested last week in Chechnya. Still another journalist, Oleg Lurye, was recently beaten unconscious by thugs, who then carved deep scars in his face with a knife. Lurye had published a series of articles about corruption in high places and, undaunted, says he will continue to do so. The paper's editor in chief admits that even he has a "feeling of threat" that he never had before. He told the Telegraph that advertisers have begun to drift away. Last year, the journal was subjected to almost 30 "tax inspections," the established method of state harassment in a country where the tax laws are so complex and so contradictory that it is all but impossible for any company to comply with them. Last summer, the Bashkir authorities laid siege to the region's only independent radio station for nine days, then stormed the offices and led the station's employees away in handcuffs. "What remains of an independent press elsewhere in Russia is dead or dying, while there is a simultaneous growth in fear of speaking out against the powers-that-be," warns the Sunday Telegraph. "The Glasnost Defense Foundation, which monitors press and broadcasting, reckons that only about a quarter of the country's media are now nominally in private hands and, even then, many owners are businessmen who front for the state authorities." With NTV out of the picture, Russia could soon look like "Russia of the 1970s," according to one press freedom advocate. There would be, he speculated, a vast state propaganda machine and a tiny group of barely tolerated "dissidents" opposing it. The Russia of the 1970s is, by the way, Brezhnev's stultifying Russia – in which Vladimir Putin came of age, and upon which he often looks back with nostalgia. Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics: Russia Related Products: Through the Eyes of the Enemy E-mail this page to a friend Printer Friendly Version E-mail a Comment to NewsMax Discuss in the NewsMax Forum Reprint Information Ruddy: Contact Us · Financial News · Late Night Jokes · Forum · Article Archives · Employment Ops. All Rights Reserved © NewsMax.com
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