'Welcome to the era of bullsh*t': Russian journal
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Source: RawStory
‘Welcome to the era of bullsh*t’: Russian journalist pens letter to ‘my doomed colleagues’ in US media
DAVID FERGUSON
12 JAN 2017 AT 18:43 ET
Russian journalist Alexey Kovalev wrote a letter to his “doomed colleagues in the American media” about how they are now facing what Russian reporters have been facing for years.
“Congratulations, US media!” Kovalev wrote at Medium.com. “You’ve just covered your first press conference of an authoritarian leader with a massive ego and a deep disdain for your trade and everything you hold dear.”
“We in Russia have been doing it for 12 years now — with a short hiatus when our leader wasn’t technically our leader — so quite a few things during Donald Trump’s press conference rang my bells.
Not just mine, in fact — read this excellent round-up in The Moscow Times,” he went on.
Putin’s press conferences, Kovalev said, are annual media spectacles at which “Putin always comes off as an omniscient and benevolent leader tending to a flock of unruly but adoring children.”
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/welcome-to-th...-us-media/