We often find ourselves cruelly reminded of the primacy of ‘news values’. Last September, up to 50 male students at a college in northeast Nigeria were slaughtered: many burned alive, those fleeing drowned in showers of bullets. The news was reported by a few wires. Again in February, 59 boys were locked […]
Day: November 4, 2014
Putin to Western elites: Play-time is over
For the last days the Western media did their best to ignore Russian president’s speech at the Valdai Club gathering in Sochi or to twist its meaning. Regardless of what you think or don’t think of Putin this is probably the most important political speech since Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech […]
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