EXTRACT: Incredibly, one Moscow-based journalist went so far as to connect Russia’s desire to take back control of the Sakhalin-2 project from Royal Dutch Shell with the death of Litvinenko.
THE ARTICLE
By Robert Bridge
Friday 05 January 2006
If Alexander Litvinenko’s death achieved anything besides another senseless murder, it effectively betrayed the bias of so many journalists and reporters, who immediately forget everything they may have learned in Journalism 101 whenever a story involves Russia.
Alexander Litvinenko did not need to lose his life, of course, to demonstrate the lingering bias that continues to contaminate western (and domestic) reporting on Russia. The western media, which has a bad habit of calling itself free and liberal these days, has still not found an aspirin big enough to cure its brutal Cold War hangover, while, Russia – at least in terms of its diversified news coverage on the West – has moved on.