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Beste Kallikles,

Bedankt voor dit verwarrend artikeltje in Bloemberg waarin de auteur vooral zijn kunst 'rond de pot draaien' ten toon stelt.

Dat hoeft uiteraard niet te verbazen:

So, my dream of becoming a European citizen within my own country has vanished. Therefore, I will be moving to Berlin in several days.

The idea of emigrating has tempted and teased me all my life. But here I should make another confession: despite my knowledge of foreign languages and my Jewish ethnicity, I am a patriot, and Russia's ability to "get up from its knees" in the years since 1991 has been a great source of joy to me.

I would love to not only see how future events unfold in Russia, but to play a part in them by helping to create a truly free press — the kind that, as in the U.S., would publish the revelations of men like former National Security Administration leaker Edward Snowden.

Now that work has ended for me. That is not to say I accomplished nothing. In fact, some of the media outlets that I had the opportunity to help create remain independent and refuse to compromise to this day.

But overall, my dreams were defeated. Now Russia's mainstream media ranges from the bulging-eyed hyperbole of pro-Kremlin television anchor Dmitry Kiselyov, to the intellectual "we're talking but nobody's watching" Dozhd television programs. That's about it. Those that fall somewhere in the middle are not only uninteresting, but bear no relationship to the media's primary function — namely, to protect the weak from the strong.

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Leonid Bershidsky is a prominent Russian journalist and media manager. Bershidsky was the founding editor of Russia's top business daily, Vedomosti, a joint project of Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, and the first publisher of the Russian edition of Forbes. He also founded the opinion website Slon.ru. He is currently a Bloomberg View columnist.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/artic...kes-me-nervous

Nuff said.