'. . . There is statistical data that showed that news shows outstripped even popular soap operas on the Russian television, around the time of the annexation of Crimea. But there's another effect that a steady diet of government-controlled news has had on the public. A major Russian pollster recently asked people whether it would be acceptable for the news media to withhold information in the government's interest. And it turned out that with the vast majority, withholding was OK. And with slightly over half, even distorting was OK. So people were totally into this propaganda and, in a sense, asked to be lied to. . .'
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