Russia for the most part....has shut down all news media operations except state-run units. So what you get is fully-filtered news.
Oddly enough, this is mostly how the Soviet Union survived all those years.
You'd have one newspaper in a major city of 500,000, with one editor responsible for ensuring only the 'right' news got printed.
It was OK to talk about sport scores, or discussing over 60 lines about some weight-lifting competition.
If a water-main burst and destroyed the contents of some shopping district area....you'd just write a two-line piece describing renovation being done in such-and-such district.
If some drunk Russian hit a few cars with his dump truck, then ran over a old lady and her dog (killing them both)....the editor would have sat long and hard over the story. The end version would have been a 1-line piece saying 'some lady on J-street met an untimely end, with her poodle 'Barney'......leaving you the reader to wonder what the untimely end was about.
A cat up in a tree, and rescued by the local fire department? This would have been a full page with four pictures.....with a broad description of the six-man crew, and six lines to describe the cat in detail. In fact, another six lines would have been added over an imaginary grandmother who came to offer cookies and tea to the firemen after the episode. There would have been enough details to write a one-hour TV show over....but half of it would have been bogus (filler-material).
Stories over farmers having giant pumpkins? Great....maybe even a sixty-line story to detail that. Stories over a farmer failing? Nothing.
Soviet people got used to this, and as the 1990s arrived, with commercial news available.....I think most were in a state of shock. You got to learn about dope dealers, murders, planes falling out of the sky, corruption, and failed lives.
Going back to the old style Soviet news pattern? They have to be sitting there and asking what really happened to trigger filtered news?
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