visiting Russia

[Mark Yoffe]

Russian media coverage of Kosovo is perhaps slanted. But for the REALLY
one-sided coverage watch American TV, which still talks about MILOSEVICH
being "punished" by bombardments, as opposed to his people suffering
immensely...



>
> > I am disapponited at the tone of Tsuji's message that smells of old
> > cold-war-time fear, disdain and jingosim. I have been watching the NTV
> > shown on the SBS television in Australia and can confirm that at least NTV
 is
>  showing the plight of the Kosovar refugees.
> > Subhash
> >
>
> And still Russians don't give a damn about that plight. It does seem
> that there is an aimed anti-Albanian anti-Western media campaign going
> on in Russia, jingoist and fearful in the good old cold-war tradition. I
> found it hard to argue with Russians about the war as well: "Of course,
> watching 10 dirty unwashed Muslim children on TV makes you
> compassionate. They procreate like rabbits."--I was told. So,
> unfortunately, Tsuji seems to be correct in his description, and Russia
> seems to have fallen back into some or another form of mass lunacy.
>
> Sincerely,
> 

--
Mark Yoffe, Ph.D. Curator, International Counterculture Archive
Slavic Librarian, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
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