Is this typical?

[John Dunn]

This may be more complicated than it seems, since newsru.co.il is, strictly speaking, an Israeli, rather than a Russian site.  It is, as far as I know, part of the Gusinskii media empire and is one of three related web-sites, the others being newsru.com (for Russia) and newsru.ua (for Ukraine).

There is another point.  I use newsru.com a lot, and they don't have much of an editorial line of their own; instead, the tone of any individual item tends to be determined by the source(s) used.   Here no source is given, so it is difficult to judge who is responsible for how the story is presented.  

John Dunn.


-----Original Message-----
From: "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 12:02:31 -0500
Subject: [SEELANGS] Is this typical?

I don't get to read as much of the Russian press as I would like (or 
probably as I should), so I was taken aback by this article:

<http://newsru.co.il/rest/23dec2009/tera_evan_106.html>

linked at the bottom of the article linked by Sasha Senderovich 
elsewhere on this forum.

What really struck me was this approach that "it's ugly, and they're 
both Jewish, and it's sleazy, and they're Jewish, and it's disgusting, 
and oh by the way did I happen to mention they're Jewish?"

Is this typical of the Russian media, or is this just an egregious case?

-- 
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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