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Berlin Pouring Cash into Anti-Russian Media
The Merkel regime has nothing better to do with German taxpayers'
Markus Mahler
Originally appeared in German at Kopp Online. Translated by Boris Jaruselski. Edited by Fabio Albertin
A massive media network against Vladimir Putin is currently under construction in Eastern Europe. Not only NATO is behind this move, but also the EU, with a super-sized propaganda ministry – the “East StratCom Task Force”. The extent and the costs involved in this media war, are being disguised though many money pots. The real cost for this is too high: Europe's media is adjusting to the “guided reporting”. If western propaganda is to function well, it has to become the truth for us.
The media Cold War between the West and Russia, is getting ever hotter: NATO and the EU are expanding their propaganda offensive massively. A question by Die Linke to the Bundestag exemplifies this. The government was forced to react – the answer discloses something more.
German citizens have apparently been financing the EU's media war for a while already. But no one knows of it, since it is not a compulsory fee, like the broadcasting fee. Things are under the public's radar. However the fact is, Western governments are paying journalists in Eastern Europe for anti-Putin reporting in the Russian language. And where are the finances coming from? The taxpayer!
Kopp Online has been reporting on this secret media war for a month already. The federal government has disclosed the true extent now in a ministerial statement: already since the 1st September, “East StratCom Task Force”, under the Brit Giles Portman, is pulling the strings. This organization is some kind of super-propagada- ministry, under the umbrella of the European Foreign Office (EEAS). Both of which, however, are not under any European parliamentary scrutiny.
EU Propaganda from labyrinthine financing channels
The aims of this new organization were pegged out by EU Foreign Minister Frederica Mogherini already in March: the “advance of the EU's political goals in the eastern neighborhood”. For which reason “independent media” in Russia, Georgia, the Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Azerbaijan and Armenia are being built up from the ground.
When journalists are trained and paid for a propaganda program, then they cannot be called “independent”. Are these journalists really reporting independently about the Kremlin - or rather about the western hand, which feeds them?
Eastern Europe is increasingly becoming a play ball of the NATO military and EU politicians. They are pouring in western taxpayers' money and are fanning anti-Russian sentiments with controlled media.
And why are they permitted to do this? The West is using a killer argument: Putin the same in reverse, so we play according to his rules. Full stop! This is exactly the nail in the coffin of European freedom of the press. Whoever scourges Russia's “disinformation politics”, but is building up an interest based propaganda machine, considers media capable of being anything – but certainly not “free”.
Berlin Pouring Cash into Anti-Russian Media Machine
The Merkel regime has nothing better to do with German taxpayers'
Markus Mahler
Originally appeared in German at Kopp Online. Translated by Boris Jaruselski. Edited by Fabio Albertin
A massive media network against Vladimir Putin is currently under construction in Eastern Europe. Not only NATO is behind this move, but also the EU, with a super-sized propaganda ministry – the “East StratCom Task Force”. The extent and the costs involved in this media war, are being disguised though many money pots. The real cost for this is too high: Europe's media is adjusting to the “guided reporting”. If western propaganda is to function well, it has to become the truth for us.
The media Cold War between the West and Russia, is getting ever hotter: NATO and the EU are expanding their propaganda offensive massively. A question by Die Linke to the Bundestag exemplifies this. The government was forced to react – the answer discloses something more.
German citizens have apparently been financing the EU's media war for a while already. But no one knows of it, since it is not a compulsory fee, like the broadcasting fee. Things are under the public's radar. However the fact is, Western governments are paying journalists in Eastern Europe for anti-Putin reporting in the Russian language. And where are the finances coming from? The taxpayer!
Kopp Online has been reporting on this secret media war for a month already. The federal government has disclosed the true extent now in a ministerial statement: already since the 1st September, “East StratCom Task Force”, under the Brit Giles Portman, is pulling the strings. This organization is some kind of super-propagada- ministry, under the umbrella of the European Foreign Office (EEAS). Both of which, however, are not under any European parliamentary scrutiny.
EU Propaganda from labyrinthine financing channels
The aims of this new organization were pegged out by EU Foreign Minister Frederica Mogherini already in March: the “advance of the EU's political goals in the eastern neighborhood”. For which reason “independent media” in Russia, Georgia, the Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Azerbaijan and Armenia are being built up from the ground.
When journalists are trained and paid for a propaganda program, then they cannot be called “independent”. Are these journalists really reporting independently about the Kremlin - or rather about the western hand, which feeds them?
Eastern Europe is increasingly becoming a play ball of the NATO military and EU politicians. They are pouring in western taxpayers' money and are fanning anti-Russian sentiments with controlled media.
And why are they permitted to do this? The West is using a killer argument: Putin the same in reverse, so we play according to his rules. Full stop! This is exactly the nail in the coffin of European freedom of the press. Whoever scourges Russia's “disinformation politics”, but is building up an interest based propaganda machine, considers media capable of being anything – but certainly not “free”.
Berlin Pouring Cash into Anti-Russian Media Machine
