U.S. media produced countless unthinking headlines and reporting that gave us our current president. More recently, i...

U.S. media produced countless unthinking headlines and reporting that gave us our current president. More recently, it has been playing into Russia’s hands with bad wording and because of what it chooses to report on. In The Kyiv Independent, Kateryna Lisunova writes how U.S. journalists can avoid turning their news items into weapons for Russia. She starts with the insidious assertion by Putin that recent Russian strikes were “retaliatory.” U.S. media outlets lazily repeat that phrasing, implying that Russia, not Ukraine, is defending itself. Read here →