My diary here does not indulge in the events occurring in Ukraine per se, just the reporting of it. I'm sure, as with the people of Palestine and elsewhere, that we support the right of self-rule, self-determination, and self-defense, and that these matters are not easily settled between conflicting parties and interpretation, just as we honor the age-old Olympic truce to suspend hostilities during the Games.
No, this diary is about our media, and medias, concentrated in few hands, ever fewer despite the so-called internet revolution, and clearly how, before anything, the "mainsteam" media serves the purposes of propaganda.
Yes, everywhere you look, Ukraine is the biggest news of the day(s), another struggle between extremist elements in a land we have little ties with, or understanding, but that some among us would insist deserves our influence, control and intervention, despite the elements we would need to ally with that are profoundly against our reason for being and values.
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