Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Oleg Vyshniakov - Ukraine and Israel. How Israelis become "heroes" of Donetsk.


Today each Ukrainian citizen somehow collides with the consequences and the results of the information war with its eastern neighbor. The different views on the same conflict has provoked quarrels in many families. People got used to almost blind trust to the information from the media. There are not so many people who are  ready to analyze the facts and separate the truth from propaganda.

Thousands of aggressive and false messages "storm" information field every day. Chasing the  cheap legends the information war machine does not get tired to generate crucified babies and eaten bullfinches. However in DNR and LNR persistently lacks its own events and heroes. Not taking into account the transparency of media field of the 21st century the photos of Australian flood victims are used, killed Chechen rebels, pictures which were taken many years ago. The authors of these "posts" seems to believe that access to the global web exists only for them.

One more example of such "qualitative" journalism - photos of Beersheba resident, who saves a child during the Israeli shelling in July 2014. That's just not clear how he became a "hero of Donetsk."

I think that the hero of this story couldn’t even imagine that he will become a Donetsk “hero” in a year.

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