Russia vs USSA - Round 5, fight!
Washington says Moscow has a propaganda machine. Moscow says Washington owns American corporate media. Viewers and readers don't know what to believe any more. Something's got to give.
What if you woke up one morning to find America and American ideas in Russia, and irony like a Russian media mogul in America? What if a founding principle of American democracy, like freedom of the press somehow became a bone of contention between two countries?
Good morning, it just happened. Russian journalist and media startup notable Vladimir Yakovlev
is crowd funding an alternative news source aimed at "countering the Russian state propaganda machine. Yakovlev, who lives in the US now, was the founder of Russian newspaper
Kommersant, and one of the Perestroika publicists who created Russian newspeak back in the 1990s.
What makes this news so interesting though is the twist of the fates that lead
an American entrepreneur in Moscow to do exactly the same thing, only in reverse. Entrepreneur and venture capitalist Charles Bausman is editor and publisher of Russia Insider. This alternative news outlet fixated on Russia, "
examines western media bias and counters by informing on what corporate media is not reporting." I spoke with Bausman earlier today on his long-range intentions for the new media product. Here's what he had to say;
"We've seen a flood of traffic onto the site which means there is a huge untapped demand which is not being served by existing media. We could easily double or triple the amount of content, and there would be no let-up in traffic, in fact it would probably increase. This can go way beyond Russia, cover other countries, other subjects - the Middle East, NSA leaks, US domestic issues, you name it."
Comment: What will the Normandy Four leaders do now?