Copernicus
Industrial Grade Linguist
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Comparing Russia to NK or even China is ridiculous. There are different degrees of freedom of the press. But that's not the question here. Question here is what's your excuse for MSM being so atrocious when it comes to Russia?
There is no excuse for the MSM in the Western world to be so atrocious when it comes to Russia, because they are quite simply very good. They can be relied on to print the truth, and the Russian MSM cannot. That's not to say that they always get everything right, but no reasonable person would expect that they would.
Barbos is right to say that Russia is very different from North Korea and China. North Korea has no publicly visible dissidents, because they are quite simply incarcerated and/or executed when discovered. China has a more free-wheeling society, and it does have some visible dissidents. Russia seems to have more publicly visible dissidents who are quite willing to become martyrs, Alexei Navalny being the latest example. Unlike China, Russia has a very active, organized pro-democracy protest movement. And there are media accessible on the internet that are critical of the Putin regime.