Thanks for the reply! You may well be right, but I actually lean towards the media uniformly being just that totally ignorant and uncaring. Let me explain....
I don't really know how much penetration the US media has in Ukraine, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was very little. Now why would I think so?
Well, back on 1/12/2020, which was a big day in DC for a couple of reasons, Trump decides to take a trip down to the border near McAllen, TX. I was looking into it and could find only two news articles on it.
One was from some mainstream network affiliate, and all it had in it was quote after quote from local Democrat politicians bashing Trump. There was almost no information about the actual event.
The other was also from a mainstream network affiliate, but it was a Spanish-language station and you'd presume the audience was Mexican immigrants. Guess what? It was just some normal news article, who what why when etc. No Trump bashing whatsoever.
Remember, this was after five years of continuous media psywar, with a special feature of "Trump hates all immigrants". They had not gotten through to Spanish speakers in America (at least down there), so I conclude it would be a couple of orders of magnitude more difficult to get through to Ukrainians on short notice.
You can find a number of posts on r/conspiracy where people are freaking out in the US and calling Ukrainian friends and family, and those people have no idea what they're talking about.
But you're absolutely right in that they have got a hard on for this war like nothing I have ever seen before. Anyway, thanks again for replying!
Thanks for the reply! You may well be right, but I actually lean towards the media uniformly being just that totally ignorant and uncaring. Let me explain....
I don't really know how much penetration the US media has in Ukraine, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was very little. Now why would I think so?
Well, back on 1/12/2020, which was a big day in DC for a couple of reasons, Trump decides to take a trip down to the border near McAllen, TX. I was looking into it and could find only two news articles on it.
One was from some mainstream network affiliate, and all it had in it was quote after quote from local Democrat politicians bashing Trump. There was almost no information about the actual event.
The other was also from a mainstream network affiliate, but it was a Spanish-language station and you'd presume the audience was Mexican immigrants. Guess what? It was just some normal news article, who what why when etc. No Trump bashing whatsoever.
Remember, this was after five years of continuous media psywar, with a special feature of "Trump hates all immigrants". They had not gotten through to Spanish speakers in America (at least down there), so I conclude it would be a couple of orders of magnitude more difficult to get through to Ukrainians on short notice.
You can find a number of posts on r/conspiracy where people are freaking out in the US and calling Ukrainian friends and family, and those people have no idea what they're talking about.
But you're absolutely right in that they have got a hard on for this war like nothing I have ever seen before. Anyway, thanks again for replying!