freedom of press in Russia

[Dustin Hosseini]

Just two thoughts... 

1) Have you read the content of this newspaper?  It's more along the lines
of yellow journalism than news. 

2) When will Westerners, or at least my fellow Americans, quit demanding
that Russia raise it's standards on freedom of speech on par with that of
the United States?  

People in the U.S. occasionally seem to air a certain duplicity on freedom
of speech: one can say whatever one likes, as long as it doesn't hurt
someone else.  If one says something another person doesn't like, many
people will shun and even criticize that person until he or she see finally
admits they were wrong... or not quite right.        

So that's freedom of speech, but at a less than attractive trade off.  

Different culture, different values, different people.  By no means better
or worse, just different in its own right.  

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