Since Putin today wished journalists freedom and objectivity, I want to draw attention to an excellent takedown—or, as the author himself calls it, a "session of taking the noodles off people's ears" (i.e., exposing propaganda)—of a piece by Dmitry Kiselyov, editor-in-chief of MIA "Novosti," whom Putin was in fact congratulating today with those wonderful words.
How an "expert on Western intelligence agencies" invents "secret CIA documents".
Alexei Kovalyov (incidentally, a former MIA "Novosti" employee) did something very simple: he went and found those "foreign specialists" who supposedly confirmed to Kiselyov's experts that the remarkable documents shown in the film about Navalny, Agent Freedom were authentic.
The "American who translated Pushkin into English" told Kovalyov the following:
Andrew Fulton, whose "technical analysis" the film's authors cite, also replied:
That's the kind of "journalism" Kiselyov practices. Just total lies. From the first word to the last. They lie even where it's easy to catch them lying—not because they don't know how to do otherwise, but because it has become the very essence of their work.
Tomorrow, at the Savyolovsky District Court in Moscow, we have our first court hearing against Kiselyov and VGTRK (the Russian state broadcaster) over their wonderful "film."
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