How the Media Mangled the ‘Russian Invasion’ of the Trump Administration

Reuters
July 14, 2020 Topic: Security Region: Americas Tags: Donald TrumpRussiaVladimir PutinMediaPress

How the Media Mangled the ‘Russian Invasion’ of the Trump Administration

The willingness of the press to circulate any account that puts Russia in a bad light has not diminished with the collapse of the Russia-Trump collusion narrative.

 

Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow in security studies at the Cato Institute and a contributing editor at the National Interest, is the author of twelve books and more than 850 articles on international affairs. His 1995 book, The Captive Press: Foreign Policy Crises and the First Amendment, received the “Outstanding Academic Book” designation from the College Division of the American Library Association.

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