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Why can't anyone write an article in English anymore without just outright lying through their teeth?

Russia’s announcement on September 21 of its first public mobilisation since World War II had even attracted criticism from the Kremlin’s own official supporters, something almost unheard of in Russia since it sent its army into Ukraine seven months ago.

“They’re infuriating people, as if on purpose, as if out of spite. As if they’d been sent by Kyiv,” the strongly pro-Kremlin editor of Russia’s state-run RT news channel, Margarita Simonyan, said on Saturday.

Nope. She didn't say that about the mobilisation announcement. Nor was that what she criticised. I know this because I've read her fricking message - it was right here: https://t.me/margaritasimonyan/12147. It was about specific Military Commissariat call line.

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As in what she's upset they aren't calling students or that they're calling 40 year olds or...?

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She's upset that the military commissariats on the ground seem to be ignoring the official policy from the top, at the very least scaring and angering people. And yeah, telegram was filled to the brim with examples of people who really don't fit the "mold" being called up, while others who very much do and actually wanted to join up (there are pretty great financial incentives, especially for people with expensive mortgages) - being turned away.

Her complaints were about specific officials, who she described using the quote you see above. She's not wrong.

My problem is that the article made it sound like she wrote that about the mobilisation itself. Without any context - everyone would think that. Shit, I would at least consider it (and go and check) if I didn't distinctly recall reading that message like a week ago on her channel (it's kind of memorable, especially the quoted line).

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Journos have always lied lol. You just get to know when they write about stuff you know about.

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Gell-Mann Amnesia

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Gell-Mann Amnesia

TIL

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journ*list has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

– Michael Crichton (1942-2008)

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And when I know precisely what is meant by com--is--sar--i-----aaaaaaat

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