I have a dear friend of 22 years named Natalia
Alexeeva. She lives in Moscow. Natalia is a highly-educated engineer who speaks
4 languages fluently. Yesterday she cautioned me about Ukraine as follows:
"All news about Ukraine is
fake news except what you see on Fox News."
I was both surprised and
amused. Fox News has incredible influence in the US and Canada. I was amazed to
see that half a world away it had such a profound influence on highly-educated
Russian people.
I did not criticize Natalia for her choice in news outlets. I gave her the login coordinates for my Financial Times of London account. I urged her to use that as a second news source. I pointed out that Putin was trying to recreate the old Soviet Union. I told her that this was not realistic.
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