Monday, August 25, 2008

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
-- Sir Walter Scott
To be fair about it, the Russian government has been practicing deceit for a long time.

A lesson in propaganda. A pro-Russian interview about South Ossetia is run on Fox news. The interview is edited and shown in Russia to demonstrate anti-Russian bias by the US. Both versions appear on YouTube, available worldwide. Says Steven Levitt, "In the age of YouTube, however, you can run but you can’t hide." NYT
here.

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