According to Peter Hart and Jim Naureckas of the media watchdog FAIR, US mainstream media seem to accept this familiar, and overly simple, Cold War story line without much questioning:
U.S. corporate media frequently evoked the Cold War as a key to understanding the conflict between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia. This was certainly true of the media themselves, which generally placed black hats or white hats on the actors involved depending on whether they were allied with Moscow or Washington.
On August 11, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams referred to “what’s being called the Russian blitz of the nation of Georgia, former Soviet republic that split away and is now threatening to split apart from within.” NBC reporter Jim Maceda followed up: “The powerful Russian war machine is moving ever deeper into Georgia, and teaching all of us really a lesson about what makes Russia tick.”
Scary Russians. Let's all be scared.
PAF says: We've seen that movie, and it was really dumb the first time, and the second, and it's still dumb.
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