Revealed, Putin's propaganda girls working here to 'destabilise' UK: Pair front new news agency

[uhnope]

Source: Daily Mail UK

These are the glamorous women fronting a new Russian news agency in Britain that experts say is tasked with spreading conspiracy theories. Oxana Brazhnik and Johanna Ross work for Sputnik, which critics claim is a propaganda machine set up by the Kremlin to destabilise the UK.

Among the controversial stories the service generated was the suggestion that the murder of MP Jo Cox was linked to EU remain supporters. The broadcaster, which opened a base in Edinburgh this year, was created by Vladimir Putin and is the international branch of a state-controlled news agency.

Miss Brazhnik, who heads the bureau, has close ties to the Russian president’s inner circle. She is a former political adviser to Vyacheslav Volodin, a hard-line politician who has been credited with masterminding Putin’s election victories.
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She describes her objective as ‘overcoming bias and ignorance in the media’.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3717375/Revealed-Putin-s-propaganda-girls-working-destabilise-UK-Pair-new-news-agency-linked-string-controversial-stories.html

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LOL. Putin trolls have tried passing off Sputnik on DU, too

[Doodley]

1. I have often wondered if Alex Jones is rewarded by Russia for all his crap.

[uawchild]

2. The Daily Mail? Isn't that a right wing RACIST rag? Why, yes it is.

Of course it is.

Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily conservative, middle-market[2][3] tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust.[4]
...
Editorial stance
In the late 1960s, the paper went through a phase of being liberal on social issues like corporal punishment,[citation needed] but soon returned to a conservative line. The Mail has traditionally been a supporter of the Conservatives and has endorsed this party in all recent general elections. While the paper retained its support for the Conservative Party at the 2015 general election, the paper urged conservatively inclined voters to support UKIP in the constituencies of Heywood and Middleton, Dudley North and Great Grimsby where UKIP was the main challenger to the Labour Party.[58]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail#Editorial_stance

and, of course, being a rightwing rag -- IT IS RACIST:

Criticism
Racism accusations
There have been accusations of racism, mainly from left-wing sources.[124] However, in 2012, an article in The New Yorker by former Mail reporter Brendan Montague criticised the Mail's content and culture, stating, "None of the front-line reporters I worked with were racist, but there's institutional racism [at Daily Mail]."[125]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail#Criticism


AHEM, I thought we weren't supposed to quote rightwing conservative sources in LBN?

Is this what LBN has sunk to? A poster quoting and linking rightwing RACIST "news" sources? And no one objects?

Wow. Just wow.

[Bradical79]

10. Yes, and it's not LBN

Yeah, they're mostly right about Sputnik, but you're right too. It's opinion/analysis from a right wing source.

[demmiblue]

3. Since when is the Daily Mail allowed in LBN? n/t

[LeftishBrit]

4. Possible - but I don't trust the Daily Mail propaganda machine either

[Roy Rolling]

5. Just keeping it "fair and balanced" in the UK n/t

[uawchild]

7. The Daily Mail has attacked Hillary Clinton VICIOUSLY time and again

Hillary Clinton called just ONE of the 35 Benghazi survivors in the months after the terror attack – and only because right-hand-woman Huma Abedin told her to

It took Hillary Clinton at least 48 days to speak with any of the government personnel who were evacuated from Benghazi, Libya after the deadly anti-American terror attacks there, according to sworn testimony from her longtime senior aide Huma Abedin.
Abedin testified in October of last year in a closed-door deposition that after checking in with a single injured agent from the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, a man who would spend more than a year recovering at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Clinton went the rest of 2012 without speaking to another survivor.
That view contradicts what Hillary Clinton would tell Congress six days later in an open hearing.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3666747/Hillary-called-just-ONE-35-Benghazi-survivors-months-terror-attack-right-hand-woman-Huma-Abedin-told-to.html#ixzz4G5y0maNW

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WHY is this right-wing RACIST rag that lies about Democrats like Hillary Clinton allowed as a LBN source?

[cstanleytech]

9. Even a stopped clock is right occasionally.

Mind you I am not claiming they are in this case but would it surprise me if they were right that this is happening? No, not really.

[cstanleytech]

8. Hardly surprising since the EU is Russia's nearest rival of substantial size and

it puts a damper on any thoughts that Putin might have of attempting to annex any EU members territory which kinda explains the timing for the Ukraine invasion since they are still in the talking stages of joining the EU and the EU wouldnt likely come to their defense unless they were a full member of the EU.

[FairWinds]

11. Well, for all intents and purposes . .

we have a propagandistic elite controlled media too, don't we?

Recent example: The refusal of the MSM to facilitate a reasoned
debate about NATO.

All the MSM does is give us the politically correct response, in effect saying
to Trump or anyone else, "YOU CAN"T SAY THAT!"

I know the Trumpster is an idiot on this and nearly all topics, but
a debate about NATO is reasonable and long overdue.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Sputnik on DU

Sputnik conveyor belts:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141281993
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141276819
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141279198
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141276853
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027380698
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027499644
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027548083

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110852006
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110839267
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110847683
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014979900
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016156384
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141449762#post11


Sputnik forwarded:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027350921
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12216521
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016128740
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014961598
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141521696
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141519312#post3
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016138104#post11
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026577073#post5
http://www.democraticunderground.com/113314624#post1
http://www.democraticunderground.com/113314624#post14
http://www.democraticunderground.com/111664077#post13
http://www.democraticunderground.com/111664077#post31
http://www.democraticunderground.com/111664077#post38
http://www.democraticunderground.com/111661622#post15
http://www.democraticunderground.com/111664844#post17
http://www.democraticunderground.com/111667829#post22
http://www.democraticunderground.com/111661077#post33


Sputnik realists:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027491659
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027736891
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027892326
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027451975
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027977657#post15

[uhnope]

15. thanks. that's quite a service to DU. n/t

[cprise]

13. The BBC's foreign offices are state-run, so this is ironic.

[reorg]

14. Shall I find some soft porn if I click on your Daily Mail link?

That young women intelligent and pretty enough to front news services and host shows have something 'glamorous' about them is not exactly surprising. RT would not be that successful if they hadn't had these exceptionally pretty and bright young women.









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