Crazy like a Fox (News): Video of Greek riot portrayed as Russian protest...

[Makaveli]

Fox shamelessly use footage of Greek riots in a piece about Russian protests (http://rt.com/news/fox-moscow-fake-riots-281/)

The media did this in Libya (used video from elsewhere) but there was never anything as irrefutable as the Greek National Bank's Athens branch in the background. Moscow's streets aren't typically lined with palm trees either.

So are they deliberately playing on the ignorance of their fellow Americans or merely betraying their own?

I don't expect much from Fox (in the same piece they also spelled Putin Puttin and apostrophised the plural protestor's (http://rt.com/s/tmp/i1c9cf56033b2c33b76a9e0a357738ce6_greece-fox.jpg)), but CNN similarly used footage of a Russian football riot and passed it off as political protest.

What are they trying to achieve? I could understand their intentions in Libya - drumming up support for the impending intervention. But Russia?

[PeeJay]

What are they trying to achieve? I could understand their intentions in Libya - drumming up support for the impending intervention. But Russia?

How about drumming up support for regime change?:confused:

[Makaveli]

How about drumming up support for regime change?:confused:

But American support for regime change means even less regarding Russia than it does Cuba, and regime change in the Saddam/Gaddafi (invasion) sense obviously isn't an option when dealing with a real country.

[PeeJay]

But American support for regime change means even less regarding Russia than it does Cuba, and regime change in the Saddam/Gaddafi (invasion) sense obviously isn't an option when dealing with a real country.

This reply has foxed me completely TBH:greengrin

[steakbake]

Putin is a massive d**khead. A dangerous man, who suppresses proper democracy and lines the pockets of his friends and financial backers. Russia hasn't changed since communism. It's still run by a self-selecting, self-preserving group of individuals.

CNN is widely watched in Russia, as is Fox. The CNN thing, I think, is to try to increase perceptions in Russia that it is worth getting involved in the protests.

http://www.rferl.org/content/putin_accuses_us_inciting_vote_protests/24415544.html

[RyeSloan]

Putin is a massive d**khead. A dangerous man, who suppresses proper democracy and lines the pockets of his friends and financial backers. Russia hasn't changed since communism. It's still run by a self-selecting, self-preserving group of individuals.

CNN is widely watched in Russia, as is Fox. The CNN thing, I think, is to try to increase perceptions in Russia that it is worth getting involved in the protests.

http://www.rferl.org/content/putin_accuses_us_inciting_vote_protests/24415544.html

He even seems to have his own version of Hitler Youth as well now....interesting that despite his intimidation and bullying and suppression of dissent that the Russian public are still turning against him.

You have to take your (Russian) hat of to the dissenters as it must take a special kind of bravery to stand up to this man and his corrupt machine...

[lyonhibs]

It's probably just Fox being thick as ***** - it's not like they've not got years of previous on being as thick as 2 short planks when it comes to news outwith the ol' US of A.