Interesting look at the public relations battle going on, and how Russia's control over their media influences people's perceptions there.
As the crisis surrounding the plane crash deepens and as calls for Vladimir Putin to act grow louder, it’s worth noting that they’re not really getting through to Putin’s subjects. The picture of the catastrophe that the Russian people are seeing on their television screens is very different from that on screens in much of the rest of the world, and the discrepancy does not bode well for a sane resolution to this stand-off.
The Russian Public Has a Totally Different Understanding of What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
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