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Louis, it's not difficult for the serious reader to distinguish fact from
fiction in RT.com. Its factual reports are often invaluable because it is
reporting stories routinely censored in the imperialist press. Its reports are
typically light weight and the inaccuracies or crude opinion that occur are not
difficult to discern. So criticizing RT is like shooting fish in a barrel. The
Kyiv Post article is a different kettle of fish. This article in question is a
mix of fact, nuance and hard opinion in which truth is difficult to sort from
fiction.
The reader should remember the starting points of the two publications--the
Kyiv Post supports the 'anti-terrorist operation' (Kyiv's language, and that of
Kyiv Post, too) in eastern Ukraine with all of its ghastly consequences,
whereas RT opposes the war. The reader should note that and proceed accordingly.
Roger
> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 16:14:38 -0500
> From: l...@panix.com
> To: rogeran...@hotmail.com; marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu
> Subject: Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Fascism in Ukraine? Where?
>
> On 1/2/15 3:59 PM, Roger Annis via Marxism wrote:
> > Thanks for that reassuring article from Kyiv Post posted to this list with
> > no comment, regarding the torchlight march in Kyiv on Jan. 1 commemorating
> > WW2 Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera. The article was also sent to me by a
> > few correspondents, similarly without comment. The fascists and far right
> > in Ukraine are an exagerated phenomenon, we read. This sounds a similar
> > note to the reassuring but equally false articles that followed the Rada
> > election on Oct 26.
>
> You know something, Roger. The Kyiv Post is fifty times more reliable
> than RT.com. Right after the massacre in Odessa, it interviewed two
> women who laid the blame squarely on the pro-Maidan mob (that's what it
> was).
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