Chernobyl / HBO
Ilya Shepelin, Moscow Times: Putin’s Media Struggle to Deal With HBO’s Chernobyl
The fact that an American, not a Russian, TV channel told the story about our own heroes is a source of shame for pro-Kremlin media.
It seems every major Russian media outlet had to chime in about the “Chernobyl” TV series by HBO. Although the foreign program airs only online to paying viewers, the show has become something of a national sensation in Russia where the pro-Kremlin media have launched a mini-crusade against it.
Komsomolskaya Pravda (KP), Russia’s most popular newspaper, raised suspicions that competitors of state-atomic center Rosatom were using the series to tarnish this country’s image as a nuclear power.
Argumenty i Fakty, a newspaper popular among the elderly, dismissed the show as “a caricature and not the truth.”
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WNU Editor: Analysis is true ....
.... The fact that an American, not a Russian, TV channel tells us about our own heroes is a source of shame that the pro-Kremlin media apparently cannot live down. And this is the real reason they find fault with HBO’s “Chernobyl” series.
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Yep. WNU Editor, any data on how factual this show really is? The last episode stated some facts and admitted the Russian claims of death were very low. Do we really have any data to go by?
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