During Cold War 1.0 the American media loved to poke fun at the Soviet media for failing to match the glorious standards of the Western press. One of the most common putdowns was about the two main Russian newspapers -- Pravda (meaning "truth" in Russian) and Izvestia (meaning "news"). We were told, endlessly, that there was "no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia."
As cynical as I've been for years about the American mainstream media's treatment of ODE (Officially Designated Enemies), current news coverage of Russia exceeds my worst expectations. I'm astonished every day at the obvious disregard of any kind of objectivity or fairness concerning Russia.
Perhaps the most important example of this bias is the failure to remind their audience that the U.S. and NATO have surrounded Russia -- with Washington's coup in Ukraine as the latest example -- and that Moscow, for some odd reason, feels threatened by this. (Look for the map online of NATO bases and Russia, with a caption like: "Why did you place your country in the middle of our bases?")
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