information war

Trump on MSM: “I’m President and they’re not”

Donald Trump has used a speech at the Kennedy Centre honouring veterans to give an incredibly strongly worded statement about the mainstream media.
It has become clear that both sides in what is an open information war and not going to give up. Trump and his supporters in the alt-media, in addition to his political base are now set to be permanently at odds with the mainstream liberal media as well as the political and elite classes in America.
During his speech Trump said,

Hounding the Bear: Hybrid Methodology of Containing Russia

Bear-hounding is a hunting technique, in which a pack of dogs pursues a bear until exhaustion—at that point the hunter can make his kill. And that is to what Karen Shakhnazarov, a well-known Russian filmmaker of Armenian origin, compared Russia’s predicament in the current geopolitical situation. The bear analogy in Russia’s case is a contrived and, often, derogatory … Continue reading Hounding the Bear: Hybrid Methodology of Containing Russia

State Propaganda? Realities of the Russian Media Landscape

The trope of ‘Russian state propaganda’ in mainstream Western media is a persistent one, especially as of late. This continued focus expresses one’s own loss of control as older cable-news models are in decline, the media landscape becomes more diverse, and various web platforms allow younger savvy users to locate alternative information sources. This kind of repetitive … Continue reading State Propaganda? Realities of the Russian Media Landscape