How The Media Works

I wrote this in April of 2014, just after the US-backed coup in Ukraine. The media was very biased, as usual, and supported the coup enthusiastically. Then I ran into a friend who has no internet.

I pointed out to a man yesterday that our news media is biased, yet it is subtle enough that people miss it. For instance, the neo nazi coup leaders in Ukraine were immediately called "the Ukranian government" by ALL of our talking heads. The people resisting the fascist coup are called "Russian separatists", instead of nazi resisters. I guess they're what was called in the US, before WW2, "premature anti-fascists".

Anyway, he lives out in the woods and has no internet or cable, but does get the 3 networks. He said that he never heard, not one time, that the coup leaders were neo-nazis until well after the coup, when NPR mentioned it one time. And he said, Wait! What?!!! Neo nazis?

And then never heard it mentioned again until I brought it up yesterday. But, the one mention was probably to stop critics from saying that they never mentioned it. Yeah, they did. About a month ago. Once.