<\/a><\/p>\nI know nothing, really. I’ve never been there and came of age during the Cold War, certain that I was to die in some Regan inspired volley of nuclear weapons. I don’t have a clue what, or why, typical Russian people think the way they do. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n- Do Russians have reason to think the US would act against their interests? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
- Do Russians believe the CIA has the capacity and will to tamper with evidence?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
- Has the USA ever tried to influence a foreign election? *1<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
From any sort of \u201crational\u201d point of view, the answer to all these questions is \u201cyes.\u201d A Russian might have cause to believe Putin’s claim. It is not insane, but it is delivered to us in the exact same way that a skateboarding dog story would be, and because of this we unconsciously dismiss it, even as we hear it. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nStrange, that, but there you have it. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe media shapes the message, and I would love to see the last two minutes of all broadcasts to be person-on-the-street interviews with people from foreign nations in the news, more like Humans of New York than a Hot Take on a topical news story.\u00a0 I need this perspective. I want to know what they are thinking, what their faces look like and how they nervously smile when they’re on camera.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThey need to be portrayed beyond symbol, and be seen as complex, fully developed people we can understand and love, rather than targets to demonize, mock and bomb.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n*1 For those interested, the Columbia Journalism Review has just published a detailed and fascinating article on the impact of Russian Fake News on the US election.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.cjr.org\/analysis\/fake-news-media-election-trump.php<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The other day I had the CBC National News on at 11:00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[173,4390,35,4007,3217,4388,53,434,151,400,4389,3636,278,2011,699],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6682,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions\/6682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}