Notice that it is only the West that has to invent things, Russia can just rebroadcast what we get fed and they chuckle while we cring deeper into the couch.
Putin Conspiracy Theorists Strike Again - On US Public TV (PBS) - Russia Insider
The
just released Frontline program “Putin’s Way” is a masterpiece of the western "Czar Putin" campfire story, destilled to perfection.
In the segment, PBS chucks its coveted
journalistic guidelines straight out the window, relying almost entirely on worn-out speculation and bogeyman fairytales peddled by the likes of
The Economist's Putin-hater-in-chief, Edward Lucas.
The accusations made are not even groundbreaking; the program, from start to finish, is a spectacular promotional piece for Karen Dawisha’s book
Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?, the narrative of which it follows closely while even giving us cameo appearances by the author.
This show comes on top of a lengthy feature review of the book by
Washington Post blowhard Anne Applebaum, which was published last week in
The New York Review of Books.
Hats off to Dawisha and her agent: this type of promotion sure beats signing ceremonies at bookstores.