Western media and South Ossetia
On August 8 we saw Georgia's pro-west President Saakashvili's misadventure in South Ossetia. But western media like CNN, BBC, AFP, AP etc. had launched a vigorous media propaganda from which one can conclude that it was Russia who first attacked Georgia. And they also portrayed Saakashvili as a hero who immediately wanted a ceasefire (only after his US trained army got a heavy beating by Russian's military). Among the number of conflicting interests, one is that Russia won't allow a NATO member at its doorstep and western powers need Georgia to extract energy from that region through the Black Sea. Through western media bias we the general readers, listeners or viewers get confused and fail to learn what actually happened.
We hope that our media will maintain neutrality and deliver the news with headlines after analysing it properly when they get it from different sources.
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