RE: Ukraine ready for Mariupol talks 'without conditions' - negotiator21 Apr 2022 09:52
I have seen the full breadth of reports from the areas of conflict. One very useful filter is to turn the sound off. Watch the animation of those being interviewed, see how uncomfortable people are when being interviewed by the pro Russian media, compare to the response when the crew is from the west. One thing that stands out, if the interviewer is embraced as a saviour figure or figure of terror. With the Russian media, there is always distance and the arms are up in a defensive barrier. With the western media, the arms are down open and the people happy to have members of the crew move behind them.
Then listen to the dialogue. Russian media constantly leading the answers, intervening to steer the answer, always prompting for a particular narrative and the person interviewed becoming increasingly agitated and nervous they are not performing as directed. With the western interviews, the people speak free without any prompting and show full emotion without the need for any guard.
Then we have the interviews with the clean shaven well groomed expensive clean clothes young men who are supposed to have been sheltering on meager rations telling the world how Ukrainians are supposed to have been bombing him and his family until the Russians liberated them on day 8. Yeah, right. You had enough water to groom yourself but not to drink? Good skin for 8 days under ground with little food and water!
We weren't born yesterday. We have decades of this kind of propaganda crap from our own news like the BBC, we know all the tricks.