12/4/2007, 3:09 am
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Only this doesn't look like an American project.
What does it remind me of? Where else can one find online resources focused exclusively on how their own country is covered by foreign media?
The Motherland!
I've come across a number of Russian websites that do nothing but translate and publish foreign media articles about Russia, and the stories are always surprisingly positive. It must be the only nation on Earth running such projects.
One might think it's very narcissistic of them - except that tracking foreign sources and translating articles from multiple languages is way too expensive for plain narcissism.
However, it's a very efficient way for a deep-pocketed government to create propagandistic cameos which, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, fit into a larger narative: "we are good, they are bad."
So they run websites that target Russia with positive international stories, many of which they themselves had likely planted.
And they also run websites that target America with negative international stories, many of which they themselves had likely planted.
It's what they do.
So now you know.
Watching America
Only this doesn't look like an American project.
What does it remind me of? Where else can one find online resources focused exclusively on how their own country is covered by foreign media?
The Motherland!
I've come across a number of Russian websites that do nothing but translate and publish foreign media articles about Russia, and the stories are always surprisingly positive. It must be the only nation on Earth running such projects.
One might think it's very narcissistic of them - except that tracking foreign sources and translating articles from multiple languages is way too expensive for plain narcissism.
However, it's a very efficient way for a deep-pocketed government to create propagandistic cameos which, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, fit into a larger narative: "we are good, they are bad."
So they run websites that target Russia with positive international stories, many of which they themselves had likely planted.
And they also run websites that target America with negative international stories, many of which they themselves had likely planted.
It's what they do.
So now you know.