Putin's Revenge: Julia Ioffe (interview) | FRONTLINE

This is a fantastic interview. Full of incisive observations, eloquently presented. Along the lines of this historically contextualized analysis I can also recommend the PBS Frontline interviews with Julia Ioffe [0,1] which are similarly captivating and insightful. 0: [LINK] 1: [VIDEO]

I don’t think you’re necessarily wrong. PBS generally has been some of the best news / reporting I’ve seen. That said, it’s still driven by ideology — “good” being defined by someone. You can see it in the titles of their documentaries and programming. If you go through their programming objectively and put yourselves in the mindset the opposing side it becomes rather clear. This includes things like portraying nationalism as bad or Christianity as evil (see some of their frontline documentaries) While the bias is there. PBS is generally one of the least bias in the space, I think that’s what makes it so frustrating. A slight improvement in breadth and depth would make it amazing. I also have to give credit to pbs for often releasing full-length interviews. I’ve really appreciated watching hours long interviews with various people about a specific topic. See “Putin files” [LINK] [VIDEO] or Steve bannons interview on frontline. [LINK]

Julia Ioffe has talked about some of the less-lethal intimidation tactics that are used against foreign journalists in Russia. [VIDEO]