31-10-2008, 11:46 PM
David Guyatt Wrote: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.
As bad as the NYT, huh? God, that is low...However, RT was right about the Georgian assault on South Ossetia - not that the latter was entirely unwelcome to some in Moscow - and I think the point made about the flight to the dollar, thus preserving its status as the world's reserve currency, is a good one.
David Guyatt Wrote:Let's face it, every state promotes anything that benefits it and decries anything that might damage it.
Too true.
David Guyatt Wrote: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).
Ditto - utter garbage.
David Guyatt Wrote:Good gawd!
Me.
Defending "us"!!!
Unheard of.
I've put some of my tablets in the post. No idea what they are, but if you take enough of them at once, good things appear to happen. Except to the electricity bill, which is beyond even pharmacological intervention.
Paul