{"id":370634,"date":"2018-07-24T15:13:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T14:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/reflections-on-media-gone-russia-wild\/"},"modified":"2018-07-24T15:13:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T14:13:13","slug":"reflections-on-media-gone-russia-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/reflections-on-media-gone-russia-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Media Gone Russia-Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_103974\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103974\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/2877311199_f6eef98ba2_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/2877311199_f6eef98ba2_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/2877311199_f6eef98ba2_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jeremy Noble | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Flipping through the cable news stations last Saturday morning, I came across an amusing sight at Russia- frenzied MSNBC. There was the stern host Joy Reid (\u201c#AM Joy\u201d) giving a concerned and sympathetic interview to William Browder, a worried multimillionaire financier who said that Vladimir Putin wants to murder him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you afraid, Bill?\u201d Joy Reid asked, \u201care you taking precautions for your safety?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm I at risk of being killed by Vladimir Putin\u2019s regime? \u2026Yes,\u201d Browder said, adding that there\u2019s not much he can do \u201cif they\u2019re going to use chemical weapons to put poison on my door knob.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The grandson (hilariously enough) of former US Communist Party General Secretary Earl Browder (a dutiful servant of the Soviet Union during the Great Depression and World War II), Browder is one of at least two \u201cAmericans\u201d (including former US Russian ambassador Michael McFaul) Putin told Donald Trump he wants sent to Moscow for questioning by Russian investigators.\u00a0 Trump nodded approvingly as Putin discussed Browder\u2019s theft of Russian assets during the Russian president\u2019s joint press conference with Trump in Helsinki last Monday. Trump initially said he was willing to consider Putin\u2019s request.<\/p>\n<p>Two days before his appearance on \u201cAMJoy,\u201d Browder wasgiven time on CNN.\u201dTo hand me over to Putin,\u201d Browder told CNN host Kate Boldua, \u201cis basically to hand me over to my death\u2026. The Russians\u2026they\u2019d like&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/07\/24\/reflections-on-media-gone-russia-wild\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Jeremy Noble | CC BY 2.0 Flipping through the cable news stations last Saturday morning, I came across an amusing sight at Russia- frenzied MSNBC. There was the stern host Joy Reid (\u201c#AM Joy\u201d) giving a concerned and sympathetic interview to William Browder, a worried multimillionaire financier who said that Vladimir Putin wants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-370634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}