A Malaysian Airlines passenger jet crashed in Ukraine’s restive east on Thursday. Kremlin-owned English-language media — the Russian government’s means of disseminating its preferred interpretation of internal and global affairs — has already figured out why. In its view, the Ukrainian military is responsible. An early report from RT, the multi-lingual worldwide news service formerly known as Russia Today, pinned the blame on the Ukrainian military at a very early point in its reporting. At the end of this video, RT spoke with an unnamed “person who was on the Russian-Ukrainian border when [the plane] went down:” “Preliminary …read more
Source: Business Insider
