A Socio-Political Model of Lies in Russia by Vaughn Jason C.;

Author:Vaughn, Jason C.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: UPA
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Russian Media and the Acceptance of Lying

It is often alleged in popular media that the Russian (domestic) media “lies” to the Russian people, or alternatively creates a near ‘cocoon’[23] around the Russian public to maintain some safe area of pro-Kremlin sentiment. This indeed has aspects of truth, but it is not always as clear-cut as it is portrayed by many who want to dispute the support of President Putin by the Russian people. Many do not like the fact that some 80%+ of Russian public opinion responders say that they support the personage of Putin. Those who dispute this support often point at the Russian media, and suggest that the Russian people support everything that they see and/or hear on the Russian news as guided by the Kremlin and by such ‘personages’ as until 2011, (First Deputy Chief of the Russian Presidential Administration) Vladimir Surkov and, until the present (2015), Kremlin media head Mikhail Lesin. Indeed, there are examples, especially on-line[24] and on television,[25] of open propaganda strongly supporting aggressive Russian foreign policies and “demonization”[26] of any and all opposition to Putin.

It is the case that such high polling numbers are largely false for Putin and due, in part, to some rally-around-the-leader effect in these dark times for Russia, When asked (as of January 2016) I might say Putin has at most a majority support (50%), but irrespective of that, a look at how the Russian media ‘exists’ in Russia and how many Russians accept that information is worthy of analysis.

Asserting a propagandist methodology, Fyodor Krasshenninkov, president of the Institute for Development and Modernization of Public Relations in Yekaterinburg, is largely right in the allegation that:

“ . . . because the state itself creates the agenda and determines the public's perceptions, it will always stay three steps ahead of anyone attempting to form alternative strategies to the results of public opinion polls. By the time outside observers are just starting to collect information about society's attitude toward this or that problem, the authorities are already creating a new situation and the ready-made responses to it.”[27]

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