[Aaus-list] fighting disinformation campaigns ...was, Re: The USS H.W. Bush;

Tue Mar 4 15:27:16 EST 2014

Sorry to jump in here but it should include former US Ambassadors to
Ukraine, key political watchers at universities and colleges who can speak
to the polirical turmoil- are there any specialists in Crimea politics out
there? What about up in Canada?  If there isn't anyone to put this together
quickly I can help
S

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Marta Kebalo <mkebalo at aol.com> wrote:

> I agree re the  need for the AAUS to create a tappable speakers' list,
> which is an idea that we keep revisiting, for years now, every time there
> is a critical need for it. I'm looking to set something like that up even
> in terms of WFUWO UN. But right now,  I'd like to add Olena Sidlovych to
> this loop, --you have no idea how many people simply google Ukrainian and
> find the Ukrainian Institute of America=and that Olena as Executive
> Director and the front line in the UIA office often fields requests from
> the media for speakers and deals with requests for all kinds
> of cooperation. She has been doing a remarkably astute job of it--and
> could  add some persons to that potential pool of experts on things
> Ukrainian--- but this kind of list would be a wonderful resource for the
> UIA, too,  in times like this.
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: irene jarosewich <i.jarosewich at gmail.com>
> To: Hanya Krill <hanya at brama.com>
> Cc: Askold Krushelnycky <askoldk at gmail.com>; Ukrainians for Obama-Biden <
> vote2012 at ukrainiansforobama.com>; Sarah Farnsworth <
> sarah.farnsworth05 at gmail.com>; aaus <aaus-list at ukrainianstudies.org>;
> politics <politics at brama.com>
> Sent: Tue, Mar 4, 2014 2:04 pm
> Subject: Re: [Aaus-list] fighting disinformation campaigns ...was, Re: The
> USS H.W. Bush;
>
>  yes, same guy and looking worse for wear. he was on NBC during the
> olympic closing ceremonies gushing about amazing russian culture.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Hanya <hanya at brama.com> wrote:
>
>> Wait a minute, isn't Pozner (Posner) that loud mouth Russian analyst who
>> was on all the TV news shows back in 1991? He grew up in the US, as I
>> recall, so his accent probably isn't fake, although it is exaggerated. I
>> thought he must be dead by now.
>>
>> The major backlash of disinformation started full swing a few weeks ago -
>> seems that all the Steven Cohens of the world got their working orders at
>> the same time.
>>
>> A few people, as you know, have been prominently featured in recent
>> months, in particular Adrian Karatnycky, Alexander Motyl, and Timothy
>> Snyder. All three are excellent writers, public speakers, and debaters.
>>
>> I also encourage AAUS to develop a comprehensive list of reliable contacts
>> for media. (This is something that Max proposed back in 2004?, btw.)
>> Everybody with a website or FB page can link and refer to it then.
>>
>> AAUS?
>>
>>
>> У листі від Вівторок, 04 Березень 2014, 10:17 irene jarosewich пише:
>> > This morning I opened my Inbox and had three emails from colleagues
>> about
>> > the disinformation war, one from British-Ukrainian correspondent Askold
>> > Krushelnytski (now in Ukraine)  to US friends:
>> > *get on to any contacts you have with CNN.  I'm just watching a
>> supposedly
>> > "independent" Russian commentator called Vladimir Pozner ... telling
>> > outrageous lies in his fake American accent including that Ukraine is
>> > about
>> > 50% Russian & 50% Ukrainian & repeating the stuff about anti-semitism.
>>  He
>> > is  sticking to a Putin/FSB script.  *
>> >
>> > The second from Sarah Farnsworth, NDI-Kyiv director in the early 1990s:
>> > *Am tired of news handbells trotting out Moscow centric experts to talk
>> > about Ukraine. We need to propose Ukrainian- Russian experts not
>> > Russian-Ukrainian experts. Can we develop a list and send around?*
>> >
>> >  Third from a media colleague re: PBS Newshour
>> > *Judy and Gwen respond to Twitter - tweet them your messages re: Cohen.*
>> > Hanyu - Can you send this email/this request to AAUSfor them to develop
>> a
>> > list of talking heads that can be available/sent around?
>> >
>> > (BTW: I passed along yesterday's Michigan radio request to Vera
>> Andrushkiw
>> > and she wrote back that she had a good interview last night and someone
>> > else good scheduled for tonight).
>> >
>> > Why can't Plokhiy be a speaker? Or Motyl? or whoever else? It can be
>> > Canada/US
>> >
>> > If AAUS can develop a list that includes
>> > *Name/Title/Expertise/Affiliation/Contact
>> > Info *and post it to their website, then we can just tweet/send/email
>> > their
>> > website link - (BTW, AAUS - please put something more current than
>> > September 2013 on the front page of your website!)
>> >
>> > To "tweet" Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff, you don't need a Twitter
>> account
>> > -
>> > just go to these links and write short text in provided box and hit
>> > "tweet"
>> > -
>> >
>> > https://twitter.com/JudyWoodruff
>> > https://twitter.com/gwenifill
>> >
>> > To both of them, I tweeted
>> > "Stephen Cohen biased, wrong. Try Harvard Ukrainian Studies for talking
>> > head. http://www.huri.harvard.edu/"
>> >
>> > I think that people are willing to disseminate expert list, we just need
>> > to
>> > know who is willing to be on it.
>> >
>> > Besides AAUS members - other sympathetic souls - whether from dip corps,
>> > or
>> > thinks tanks pr scholars could be put on that list, as well.
>> >
>> > I don't know that AAUS is able to do this list - but that was my first
>> > thought.
>> >
>> > Thank you, Hanyu!
>> > Irka
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Hanya <hanya at brama.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Max posted the Wiki page tracking the USS H.W. Bush:
>> >> "On 27 February 2014, the group transited the Straits of Gibraltar
>> >> (pictured) and entered the Mediterranean Sea.[121]"
>> >>
>> >> That's confirmation at least of the carrier's proximity to that part of
>> >> the world, and I'm convinced that this is a major factor causing Putin
>> >> to
>> >> re-think his immediate strategy. Heavy sanctions worked too, of course,
>> >> but I think that the threat of being responsible for starting a
>> European
>> >> WWIII was the clincher.
>> >>
>> >> Which is not to say that Ukraine should relax. Aside from its massive
>> >> economic issues, Ukraine will have to stay on its guard at least until
>> >> the
>> >> Russian Federation fractures.
>> >>
>> >> And now, on to tackling the ongoing information war...
>> >>
>> >> Oh, and if the report about the USS H.W. Bush is confirmed, I think we
>> >> all
>> >> owe the Commander-in-Chief a huge thank you.
>> >>
>> >> I look forward to reading about all this in finer detail in Serhii
>> >> Plokhy's sequel to "The Last Empire."
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> У листі від Вівторок, 04 Березень 2014, 08:19 Moki Kokoris пише:
>> >> > I question the reliability of this news source. Unless this bulletin
>> >> > really is true and hasn't been reported elsewhere yet.
>> >> >
>> >> > http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/news/342-pat
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