Russia’s distortions of the truth

This report from the Moscow Times gives a flavour for how Russian television is covering the crisis:

“Russian television is flush with footage of misery left by the Georgian assault in the separatist district of South Ossetia, but few, if any, reports mention Russia’s bombing of Georgia. William Dunbar, a correspondent in Georgia for English-language state channel Russia Today, mentioned the bombing in a report Saturday, and he has not gone on air for the station since. ‘I had a series of live, video satellite links scheduled for later that day, and they were canceled by Russia Today,’ he said by telephone from Tbilisi on Sunday. ‘The real news, the real facts of the matter, didn’t conform to what they were trying to report, and therefore, they wouldn’t let me report it. ‘I felt that I had no choice but to resign,’ he added”