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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:20, <PetersJV@aol.com> wrote:

>  Web site is owned and run by RIA Novosti, Russian state media. /Peters
>

InoSMI is sort of a relic from the Soviet era.  Its name means 'foreign mass
media'; back in the late 1980s, when Glasnost made it possible to read
foreign press but Soviet media was still struggling to overcome external and
internal censorship, "everybody knew" that foreign press was more reliable
than Soviet press.  Watching from the inside, different forms of foreign
press were kind of hard to differentiate, so it was routine to assign equal
credibility to Le Figaro, National Inquirer, and a shopper's weekly from
Stockholm on account of them all being "foreign press".  For obvious
reasons, "sources" like National Inquirer quite often tended to dominate
over others in smoke break talk.  (There were no water coolers in Soviet
Union, you see.)

InoSMI was not around twenty years ago, but in Russian heartland, not much
has changed in the press scene.  "Everybody knows" that Russian press is
problematic, so "everybody" trusts "foreign press" more, so RIA Novosti uses
InoSMI as a kind of sockpuppet for representing what they want "foreign
press" to be saying.

On another hand, it's also a handy way to help maintain the "foreign press
is so menacing, so strange, so foreign" aura by printing a story that leads
(some of) the readers to think that "those foreigners, they all hate us"
every now and then.  If this were not done, people might get used to foreign
press; some might actually start reading it directly -- obviously, a
doubleplusungood proposition.  As it is, foreign press is usually only read
directly by independent intelligentsia -- which in this context covers the
requirement to be able to read the foreign language in question --, who has
never been a major player in Russian politics, so status quo is acceptable
to the ruling elite.

Since InoSMI lives in the era of Internet, it doesn't need a Stockholm
consumer tabloid; it can just translate and reprint random blog posts as
"foreign press".

In summary, InoSMI is not a reliable source; watch out for the Cartel to
pretending otherwise.  Unlike kompromat and its evil twin, InoSMI's stories
are not even particularly original.

-- 
Andres Soolo

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<div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:20,  <span dir=3D"ltr=
">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:PetersJV@aol.com">PetersJV@aol.com</a>&gt;</span> w=
rote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;borde=
r-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">




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"Arial" color=3D"#000000" size=3D"2"><div class=3D"im">
<div>
<div>Web site is=C2=A0owned and run by=C2=A0RIA Novosti, Russian state medi=
a.=20
/Peters</div></div></div></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>InoS=
MI is sort of a relic from the Soviet era. =C2=A0Its name means &#39;foreig=
n mass media&#39;; back in the late 1980s, when Glasnost made it possible t=
o read foreign press but Soviet media was still struggling to overcome exte=
rnal and internal censorship, &quot;everybody knew&quot; that foreign press=
 was more reliable than Soviet press. =C2=A0Watching from the inside, diffe=
rent forms of foreign press were kind of hard to differentiate, so it was r=
outine to assign equal credibility to Le Figaro, National Inquirer, and a s=
hopper&#39;s weekly from Stockholm on account of them all being &quot;forei=
gn press&quot;. =C2=A0For obvious reasons, &quot;sources&quot; like Nationa=
l Inquirer quite often tended to dominate over others in smoke break talk. =
=C2=A0(There were no water coolers in Soviet Union, you see.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>InoSMI was not around twenty years ago, but in Russian =
heartland, not much has changed in the press scene. =C2=A0&quot;Everybody k=
nows&quot; that Russian press is problematic, so &quot;everybody&quot; trus=
ts &quot;foreign press&quot; more, so RIA Novosti uses InoSMI as a kind of =
sockpuppet for representing what they want &quot;foreign press&quot; to be =
saying.</div>
<div><br></div><div>On another hand, it&#39;s also a handy way to help main=
tain the &quot;foreign press is so menacing, so strange, so foreign&quot; a=
ura by printing a story that leads (some of) the readers to think that &quo=
t;those foreigners, they all hate us&quot; every now and then. =C2=A0If thi=
s were not done, people might get used to foreign press; some might actuall=
y start reading it directly -- obviously, a doubleplusungood proposition. =
=C2=A0As it is, foreign press is usually only read directly by independent =
intelligentsia -- which in this context covers the requirement to be able t=
o read the foreign language in question --, who has never been a major play=
er in Russian politics, so status quo is acceptable to the ruling elite.</d=
iv>
<div><br></div><div>Since InoSMI lives in the era of Internet, it doesn&#39=
;t need a Stockholm consumer tabloid; it can just translate and reprint ran=
dom blog posts as &quot;foreign press&quot;.</div><div><br></div><div>In su=
mmary, InoSMI is not a reliable source; watch out for the Cartel to pretend=
ing otherwise. =C2=A0Unlike kompromat and its evil twin, InoSMI&#39;s stori=
es are not even particularly original.</div>
<div><br></div></div>-- <br>Andres Soolo<br>

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