NPR should just go kill itself against a wall. They are misinforming people in the most egregious manner imaginable:
More than a dozen armed men have seized a police station in the city of Sloviansk, near Ukraine’s border with Russia. The pro-Russian group is one of several that have seized public government buildings in the past week.
This is not a “pro-Russian” group. These are soldiers of the Russian army who have crossed the border. It takes all of 3 minutes of Googling to find this information.
The article goes on to call the Russian soldiers “separatists.” It takes all of 20 seconds of Googling to find the correct definitions of words “separatist” and “soldier”, but who cares about language when you can just dash off a piece, get paid, and forget all about it?
God, I hate these, lazy-brained, stupid, self-contented and ignorant excuses for journalists. I don’t even want to remember how many news articles I swallowed, believing journalists were responsible professionals and knew what they were doing. I now question everything I ever heard or read by mainstream journalists.
I’m very upset right now, and I guess the best thing to do is just step away from the news stream.
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I think that big, serious news sources would be forbidden to report anything, which could from government’s pov damage US interests. F.e. if Obama doesn’t want to declare the invasion of Ukraine officially. May be, this is a small, independent source, but I am talking about major newspapers and TV channels. Weren’t they very careful in Bush time, for instance?
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Yes, it’s true the censorship on journalism in intense. But the journalists seem more than happy to report nothing but the pablum fed to them through White House press releases. And then they bemoan the death of their profession.
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