Sensible Erection | Expect Bert to be the only one reporting live from Moscow anytime soon

Thursday, 11 September 2008

Expect Bert to be the only one reporting live from Moscow anytime soon

quote [ ...Putin gave the network [CNN] an exclusive 30-minute interview. And you know what happened? Nothing. It was never allowed to air. CNN doesn’t know it yet, but that decision might have cost them their Russian broadcasting rights. ]

This will play out interestingly and hopefully without any Geiger counters

There are no mooseburgers here.

[politics] [by LeavemeAlone@2:26amGMT] [+10 Interesting]

Comments

lilmookieesquire said @ 2:52am GMT on 11th Sep
But what does Palin have to do with this? I don't understand!!

RoboRonnie said @ 3:00am GMT on 11th Sep
D.B.D.

seerious said @ 3:22am GMT on 11th Sep
You can put lipstick on a KGB agent, but it's still a KGB agent.

Oh crap...I mean...it's an old saying!!!

assbastard said @ 3:38am GMT on 11th Sep
Hey, Putin said it first last year!

wyckedfae said @ 4:46am GMT on 11th Sep
Actually, I'm pretty sure I heard my great grandfather use that saying a long, long time ago.

Betty said @ 6:24am GMT on 11th Sep
I used to read the Exile when I was living in Moscow. It was fun paper and served as a lifeline to the social and political life of the city.

This was an interesting article. On one hand it's positively gloating about how CNN is getting shut down in Russia, and just what a swell guy that Putin fellow is.

But it seems like the the Exile has had its own run ins with Russian press freedoms. Just a few months back, the Exile was shut down by the authorities are well, along with all other sources of free and independent media.

http://exiledonline.com/banned-in-russia/

For them to come out with a brown-nosing piece like this smacks of desperation. Someone is trying to kiss some serious ass.

lilmookieesquire said @ 9:39am GMT on 11th Sep
So... Palin is running the Exile?! No, I remember that post. Good point. Maybe they figure they should tow the line while Big Red is looking at which media outlets get shutdown/banned/irradiated. That or they've been body snatched.

v21 said @ 1:08pm GMT on 11th Sep
C'mon: given their position, they've always hated the American media. Always. And they've published a couple of articles since their closure that don't have much of a taint of brownnose to them. Hell, this article contains the sentence "After all, he is the one that usually does the censoring."

Dioxin said @ 12:59am GMT on 12th Sep
So as soon as they start saying anything politically you disagree with, they're pandering. Hokay.

CapnSilver said @ 3:15am GMT on 11th Sep
Yeah, poor misunderstood putin.

I think you'll find the CNN journalists come down with a sudden case of polonium overdose.

phlegm said @ 3:25am GMT on 11th Sep [Score:2 Insightful]
+1 A good and important political post.

BlutStein1984 said @ 4:07am GMT on 11th Sep
MSM has an agenda?!?! What an absurd notion.