{"id":22312,"date":"2014-03-07T14:17:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T13:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burks.de\/burksblog\/?p=22312"},"modified":"2014-03-07T14:17:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T13:17:57","slug":"standing-out-from-the-crowd-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burks.de\/burksblog\/2014\/03\/07\/standing-out-from-the-crowd-is-hard","title":{"rendered":"Standing out from the crowd is hard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Margarita Simonyan, die Chefredakteurin<\/a> von RT, kommentiert die aktuelle Lage<\/a> (via Fefe<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Yesterday I spent quite some time explaining to the New York Times correspondent why I consider Russia\u2019s position to be right. I\u2019m Russian. I support my country and I will fight for the truth for as long as it takes. (…) And now we\u2019ve got a genuine war going on \u2013 no, thank God, it\u2019s not in the Crimea. It\u2019s a media war. Every single day, every single hour the guys who work for us are told, „You are liars, you are no journalists, you are the Kremlin propaganda mouthpiece, you\u2019ve sold yourselves to the Russians, it\u2019s time you quit your job, and everybody is laughing at you, so change your mind before it\u2019s too late.“ (…) <\/p>\n

This is all typical of a media war. We\u2019re not the first and we will not be the last to go through this. During the Arab Spring, Al Jazeera staff in Lebanon made headlines by resigning en masse. Their Egyptian colleagues followed suit. More than twenty former employees said they disagreed with the channel\u2019s editorial line. That happened without any pressure from the world mass media, as throughout the Arab Spring Al Jazeera was completely in tune with the global mainstream. So everyone commended the channel\u2019s actions instead of trying to attack it. (…)<\/p>\n

I can see very clearly why I continue to work for a channel that stands alone (!) face to face with thousands and tens of thousands of Western news outlets, showing everybody the other side of the story, under daily attacks from the media that it is hardly managing to fight back. It\u2019s my country. There is no other choice for me. But the foreign journalists who work for RT across the globe do have a choice. (…)<\/p>\n

Standing out from the crowd is hard, sometimes to the point of unbearable.<\/i> <\/p>\n

\u00dcbrigens schreibt Spiegel online<\/a>: „Betrachtet man den Pr\u00e4sidentschaftswechsel in der Ukraine ‚rein juristisch‘, hat Putin recht.“<\/p>\n

Titel des Guardian<\/a>: „In Ukraine, fascists, oligarchs and western expansion are at the heart of the crisis“.<\/p>\n

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