Russia Today - Fabulous PR Gimmick

Russia Today is a publication borne of necessity. The public image of Russia has been getting rightfully hammered what with the assassinated journalists (Anna Politkovskaya), murdered Russians living in the UK (watch out for that sushi) who were asking questions about assassinated Russian journalists, threatening to cut off heating oil to Eastern Europe in winter, and invading a neighboring country when they don't like their internal policies.

What better than a fake news source to pretend there's anything like real news coming out of Russia?

I'm waiting for the story on the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya. Or the story on Russia's use of torture in Chechnya. Or the murder of the the Fortune magazine editor in Moscow.

It'll be a long wait, I know.

Anna Politkovskaya

The Committee to Protect Journalists are on one side, Mother Russia on the other.

The Committee to Protect Journalists insists that Russian prosecutors were investigating Chechen police related to the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. Russian officials deny this claim.

What Econo-Girl thinks happened was that Russians told this "investigating Chechen police" story to visiting U.S. journalists so they wouldn't look so bad. The visiting U.S. journalists told it to The Committee to Protect Journalists, who leaked it.

Newsflash: the Russians were lying. They aren't investigating who killed Anna Politkovskaya. They don't care. Just like they don't care about the other dozen journalists killed since Putin came to power. And they never will.