Chris Doss wrote:
>
>...IMHO the mainstream
> Russian media is far, far more pluralistic than its American
> counterpart, because it is so highly factionalized and its various
> patrons use it to try to take each other down and expose the other
> guy's bad side. You can read stuff about how Putin is an anti-Christ
> destroying Russia all the time in the very widely-read Communist
> and/or ultra-nationalist press, hell, even in > some of the
> oligarch-owned press. I can just imagine reading something like
> that about Bush in a mass-circulation American paper. Yeah, right.
>
It wouldn't be a stretch for the National Inquirer to run a story about George W. as the love child of Barbara Bush and Satan and I remember a story involving Newt and space aliens years ago. A thousand newspapers that are some cross between the New York Post and the National Inquirer is a good thing?
Dennis Breslin