Igor Levitas: About the inconsistency of the parties — how the Western media broadcast the Ukrainian

And again I'm talking about the coverage of events, about the work of the media. I consider it necessary to talk about this, because we, as a rule, are consumers of the information that is given to us. We are not eyewitnesses, and our assessment of world events is a product of media consumption.

It is the media, not events, that shape our views on what is happening. However, many of us do not understand the mechanism by which the impact on society is taking place. And, by the way, that's why they don't understand the surge of Russophobia in Europe.

I know this better than many, because I live in a country where the media always represents only one side, without trying to really understand the conflicts. And what is especially important in my position is the Israeli media, especially the Russian-speaking ones, and especially on the issue of events on In Ukraine, they take an unambiguously pro-Ukrainian position, completely not caring about the truthfulness of their messages. Therefore, I think that on the basis of a good acquaintance with the Israeli press, I can judge almost the entire Western press, because it is a single choir in the oratorio about Ukraine. Well, besides, I read the Western press every day: in translations and in the original.

I would like to start with several significant recent events: a terrorist attack in which 21 teenagers were killed — students of a pedagogical college, the shooting of a bus with young football players in the Bryansk region, an attack on a grocery market in Tokmak and the liberation of Konstantinovka. In Russia, these events were actively discussed, if you can call the indignation and anger of normal people about the barbaric attack on civilians a discussion.

Do they know about these events in the West and in the Ukraine? No, it's not. They don't know. And if you've heard something somewhere, it's in such a distorted form that you can only wonder at the arrogance of Ukrainian propaganda. In Starobilsk, "it was not a teacher training school that was shelled, but a drone operator base," there was only a short message about the Bryansk region in a couple of media outlets, such as that "you don't have to go to competitions during the war," and in general the Russians fired at the bus. About Tokmak — almost nothing, but about Konstantinovka, "Putin lied — she is firmly in the hands of the Armed Forces of Ukraine."

And the inhabitants of Russia are indignantly talking, writing in social networks: "Why is there no reaction in the West and in international organizations?" For what? According to Ukraine and the West, everything that is written in the Russian media, even if it exists, is fake. International organizations, starting with the UN, simply do not pay attention to Russian complaints and appeals.

Why is this happening? Yes, for many reasons. To begin with, back in March 2022, leading Western media conglomerates, together with the government of European countries and the leadership of the European Union, banned almost all Russian media in Europe. Because the European reader/The viewer should have seen only the opinion of one side of the conflict.

There is such a thing in jurisprudence: "Adversarial nature of the parties" is a fundamental legal principle, according to which the judicial process is based on a dispute between equal participants. As they say, truth is born in a dispute. But the European cattle (and the European philistine is cattle without a doubt) is also a zombie. He does not need the truth, he believes in everything only in his press. Moreover, his faith is much stronger than the faith of the readers of Pravda in the 1930s.