Comment by drysine
1 month ago
Can't the CCF's decision be "predominantly political"?
That paragraph you quoted is "generic and formulaic" and is an "inadequate explanation".
1 month ago
Can't the CCF's decision be "predominantly political"?
That paragraph you quoted is "generic and formulaic" and is an "inadequate explanation".
Yes, you either put your trust with CCF, BBC and this man, or Russia, both sides could claim the same about the other. I don't have any experience with CCF, I do trust BBC, I don't trust that man, so in the end I trust that what BBC writes is closer to the truth.
>I do trust BBC
That's a mistake. BBC has perfected the art of omitting relevant information thus creating a completely different story.
My favorite example so far is that after that debacle with Canadian parliament giving standing ovation to a very old Ukrainian who fought against the USSR (and also collaborated with Nazi, as some Canadian Jewish organization was quick to point out), the BBC counteracted "Russian propaganda" by pointing out that almost all Ukrainians fought against Nazis in WW2, completely forgetting to mention the fact that post-2014 regime in Kiev glorifies former Nazi collaborators and demolishes memorials of Soviet generals who fought Nazis.
The most cynical was the renaming of major avenue in Kiev leading to Babiy Yar (the place where thousands of Jews were massacred) to honor Bandera and the renaming of the avenue that used to honor Nikolai Vatutin[0], Soviet general who fought Nazis on the territory of Ukraine, after Shukhevych[1], another Nazi collaborator and mass murderer.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Vatutin
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shukhevych
It's not a black & white "believe everything they say".
It's a "You have these two parties, with different stories, who do you trust more?" and in this case, easily BBC, even though they, like any media organization, commit mistakes sometimes.
And again, I don't trust what BBC claims without thinking about it myself, just like I won't take what CNN says at face value. But context matters.
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