31-10-2008, 07:42 PM
I'm inclined to treat Russia Today in the same vein that I treat the New York Times ---- wholly disbelieve-able in those cases where national/corporate interest is under scrutiny.
Let's face it, every state promotes anything that benefits it and decries anything that might damage it.
This piece - to my hitherto quivering 'absent' nose anyway - reminds me very much of the Russian government (Novosti I think) "battle reports" of the US 2nd invasion of Iraq in 2001 which I followed carefully because they were at such variance to western reports, and because I was intrigued if they were true and accurate (largely they weren't).
Hence the sentence:
Which is entirely untrue. In the UK anyway, it was well reported.
Good gawd!
Me.
Defending "us"!!!
Unheard of.
Let's face it, every state promotes anything that benefits it and decries anything that might damage it.
This piece - to my hitherto quivering 'absent' nose anyway - reminds me very much of the Russian government (Novosti I think) "battle reports" of the US 2nd invasion of Iraq in 2001 which I followed carefully because they were at such variance to western reports, and because I was intrigued if they were true and accurate (largely they weren't).
Hence the sentence:
Quote:But on September 22, with less publicity, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs gave up their investment bank status...
Which is entirely untrue. In the UK anyway, it was well reported.
Good gawd!
Me.
Defending "us"!!!
Unheard of.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14