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[–]MezozoicGay 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

is a compliant media

In Russia almost all media are speaking only how many people died to covid in Europe or USA, and never mentioning the situation in Russia itself.

[–]Finnegan7921 10 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, and that's what you'll get here, the minute Biden is sworn in. It will no longer be the top story. CNN will no longer be nothing but covid, all day, every day. The longer it drags on under him, the worse it would look and the media didn't spend four years trying to get Trump out just to turn on the guy they've propped up for months.

[–]Doe_aFemaleDeer 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

No, that’s patently false. All main news media broadcasters from Russia (which are easy to access both via satellite & via their online websites) are reporting DAILY the situation BOTH inside the country and internationally. For example, Channel 1’s website features daily reports & expert-panel discussions about the ebb-and-flow dynamics of local infection numbers, fatality numbers and convalescence numbers inside the country, with special reports from local hospitals and cities across the country, as well as discussions about mask-wear compliance dynamics in subway stations, shopping malls, etc.

[–]MezozoicGay 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I meant television mostly, all channels that are accessible here (on a border with Russia), are mostly speaking about situation outside and how badly it is done, only meantions of inside situation is when saying how good everything is, or reminders to wear masks. At least in the evening news, which I am checking time to time after work.

Their websites for some reason often less filled with propaganda (still having it, but just less of it), than broadcasts, especially non-russian versions of sites, which are almost completely different to original ones, some of them even have different sets of news for different languages.

[–]Doe_aFemaleDeer 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

ALL channels that are accessible here (on a border with Russia), are mostly speaking about situation outside […] ONLY meantions of inside situation is when saying how good everything is, or reminders to wear masks. At least in the evening news”

I don’t know what TV channels you’re watching, but the 2 main Russian TV channels (Channel 1 “Perviy” and Channel 2 “Rossiya”) provide sufficient essential coverage about the domestic situation regarding the pandemic.

In fact, especially during the lockdown months, that was their main news topic 24/7. And even now, post-lockdown, they continued hosting almost daily talk-shows with a whole range of medical experts & social commentators discussing the local situation from different angles (including even heated debates & mutual critique/arguments on those panels). The panels are hosted around breakfast-time GMT (lunchtime MSK time), but they’re available to view online anytime in catch-up TV mode (similar to BBC catch-up TV).

As for the morning, afternoon & evening news cycle - over the past ca. 7 months that I’ve been watching, the 2 main TV channels actually pretty much covered all the essential local pandemic information: (i) ongoing monitoring of daily variable increases or decreases in infection, fatality & convalescence cases (with visual graphs and commentary); (ii) local sanitising measures for public spaces; (iii) local mandatory social-distancing regulations for restaurants, theatres, museums, gyms, public transport, schools and universities (including distance-learning requirements); (iv) domestic flight and transportation restrictions; (v) discussions about the efficacy and affordability of different local anti-viral treatment; (vi) ongoing development of multiple local vaccines; etc, etc.

only meantions of inside situation is when saying how good everything is, or reminders to wear masks

No, there were plenty of Russian TV reports about various domestic challenges: (i) reports about outbreaks in various local regions (e.g. Tyumen region, Nenetsk district, Dagestan region, etc); (ii) the challenges faced by medical staff who do long shifts in hospitals; (iii) news coverage about some unfortunate tragedies, e.g. a ventilator machine in one of the hospitals malfunctioned and caught fire; (iv) TV coverage about bus passengers getting into arguments with each other because of mask non-compliance. Etc. They definitely did not present “only” a ‘rose-tinted’ view of “how good everything is”.

At the same time, there were obviously many positive reports: because, overall, the Russian universal healthcare system proved to be quite robust during this challenging year.

mostly speaking about situation outside and how BADLY it is done […] Their websites for some reason often less filled with propaganda (still having it, but just less of it)

Actually, Russian news reported in a quite positive light how well the situation was handled in the most efficient and proactive foreign countries (South Korea, Singapore, etc were referred to as “role model” examples because the citizens there acted very responsibly). Russian media was also mostly compassionate towards the plight of China (they didn’t onerously blame China like Fox News Channel sometimes does). Russian channels also acknowledged that even Sweden’s unconventional approach perhaps had some good merits (even though Sweden took a completely different, anti-lockdown approach compared to the rest of the world).

As for reports on “how badly it is done” in some other countries (like e.g. in Britain and the U.S.) - well, that’s simply an objective fact . It’s not “propaganda” if it’s (unfortunately) the actual basic truth. I’m usually resident in London - and Russian news were reporting everything more or less correctly about London. Even British news outlets agreed that the situation was indeed surprisingly mishandled (e.g. Londoners were advised to wash their hands to ward off the virus - but in the beginning there was suddenly no soap left in the shops!) and it didn’t help matters that the NHS has been in a deep deficit crisis for over a decade. So it’s not like Russian news were saying anything new or taboo - they simply repeated what British and U.S. media said.

Unfortunately, the fact is that many of the planet’s ‘leading’ countries were surprisingly ill-prepared for the pandemic (some developing countries surprisingly fared better than the developed ones). So I don’t think it’s wrong for Russian media to report on that and learn from other countries’ mistakes (as a cautionary tale). For example, they reported on the massive health crisis in Italy during the pandemic - but in a compassionate way, they weren’t celebrating the massive death toll in Italy.

Moreover, reporting on & comparing the health situation in foreign countries is VITAL during a Global pandemic - not only as a lesson about which approaches/methods work and which ones don’t, but also as an indication whether foreign travel to and from that country is safe or not.

broadcasts, especially non-russian versions of sites, which are almost completely different to original ones […] that are accessible here (on a border with Russia)

AFAIK, the official website of Channel 1 is only in Russian - they don’t seem to have “non-Russian versions” of the official website. (I’m fluent in Russian, my parents are from the border region as well, between Kazakhstan and Siberia, plus Russian is the 2nd official state language in Kazakhstan). And I checked - the hourly news that Channel 1 posts on their official website is the exact same as I get via satellite TV.

For online access to Channels 1 and 2 from abroad, I usually simply use VPN to access the official website or 3rd-party streaming services. Same as I do for U.S. channels which are often region-blocked for those living in Europe & Asia.

[–]redditbegay 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's almost like the reverse situation of what it is here - none of the outlets are calling out Gov's sending covid patients into nursing homes and killing them - only criticising Trumpf for not knowing that Pearl Harbor was happening AHEAD OF TIME!!