julia ioff still employed after terrible tweet

#JULIA IOFF STILL EMPLOYED AFTER TERRIBLE TWEET SERIES#

In it, she paints opposition figure Ksenia Sobchak, daughter of former St. Ioffe published a piece about the Putin raids on the opposition in the New Yorker three days after they occurred. She completely lost her ability to discern and report objectively, and totally has been totally mischaracterizing events in Russia ever since. We were unutterably stunned to see the decline in the quality of her reporting in the wake of the protest demonstrations, which are led by numerous individuals who are Ioffe’s personal friends. When Ioffe first began blogging about Russia we were among her biggest fans, and touted her blog’s fresh perspective on Russia. In fact, if one were given to such suspicions, one could easily think her a Kremlin plant. Far from helping the opposition movement, Ioffe’s “journalism” represents a toxic poison slowly seeping into the infant movement’s blood stream and destroying it.

Any respectable publication ought to disown her.Īs a folks who despise the malignant Putin regime and all it stands for, we find Ioffe’s conduct odious beyond words. She has seen this “movement” evaporate before her very eyes, and seen a brutal neo-Soviet crackdown proceed despite it, yet she has not corrected her errant reporting or apologized. Without the slightest concern for the actual facts, on a daily basis she issues false statements about the movement and its enemies that are designed for one purpose, to bolster its success.

#JULIA IOFF STILL EMPLOYED AFTER TERRIBLE TWEET SERIES#

Had she been reading our Twitter feed, of course, she would never have made such a reckless misstatement in the first place.Įver since the parliamentary elections back in December gave rise to a burst of futile and in fact rather laughable series of street protests against Putin, Ioffe has been banging the propaganda drum in favor of the “movement,” many of whose members are her personal friends (a fact she virtually never discloses to readers). Her ultimate response was a declaratory “I didn’t notice it” and “it should have been bigger.” It may be a bit unfair to expect her to have done anything more, because Ioffe not only blocks my tweets but hides her Twitter feed from me, the better to prevent me from catching her in gross misstatements of this kind. We sent her a tweet, copying others, exposing her lie (it was retweeted by the boss of RT), but she didn’t correct the record much less did she apologize even though we explicitly called upon her to do so. They seem to signal that Putin intends to use the same tactics with the current opposition forces that he used with Mikhail Khodorkovsky: jail in remote Siberia on trumped-up charges.įour hours later, Ioffe issued a totally false tweet lambasting RT for failing to report the raids at all. The raids came in the wake of Putin’s signing a new law providing for draconian sanctions (a year’s pay or more) for opposition figures who violate Putin’s edicts about how protest can occur. That morning, we tweeted among other things that the Russian government’s answer to Voice of America, the RT broadcasting network, had in reporting on the story apparently stolen a photograph from the website of an opposition activist. The move smacked of the USSR, and once again, of course, the Obama administration did nothing about it. On June 11, 2012, security forces acting at the order of Vladimir Putin carried out close to a dozen deeply disturbing raids on leaders of the Russian democracy movement and their families, seizing computers and other things they believed to be evidence of illegal activity. She’s the very worst MSM Russia journalist on the planet.

If there were to be a photograph next to the paragraph in the Pajamas Media Wikpedia entry that explains why PM was formed, it should be a photograph of New Yorker “reporter” Julia Ioffe, who also writes for Foreign Policy. Julia Ioffe and her Campaign of Lies about Russia

Julia ioff still employed after terrible tweet