• Skiluros@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    This honestly sounds like a PR/propaganda move. An attempt to dominate the news cycle and provide cover for on-going corruption and oligarch take-over schemes.

    • Fuzzy_Dunlop@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      Exactly. How do “journalists” hear something like this and not immediately ask “so what else did he do just now that we should really be covering”?

      • rickdg@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Steve Bannon has previously explained this very tactic of “flooding the zone” because the media are “lazy”. And journalists still let themselves get caught on this superficial grind.