tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post5346903109133256672..comments2024-03-11T13:16:19.098-04:00Comments on Ad Orientem: The Annexation of Crimea to Russia. Opinion PollUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-45277310284118678082015-02-13T17:09:56.179-05:002015-02-13T17:09:56.179-05:00I am broadly opposed to Russia's actions in Uk...I am broadly opposed to Russia's actions in Ukraine following the deposition of former President Yanukovich, but it is hard for me to work up a lot of outrage about Crimea voting to be annexed by Russia. If the people living there want to be under Putin instead of Poroshenko, it is not clear to me why they ought not to be.<br /><br />But this gets at your point about this sort of story being ignored by the Western media. I am only a moderately well-informed news consumer. I am hardly a foreign affairs junky. I get almost all of my news from NPR, and yet I am fully aware that popular opinion in Crimea favors the Russian annexation. Evidently, then, the mainstream media cannot be as biased as your concluding comment supposes. Mainstream news outlets in the US are reporting the popular sentiment in Crimea. Otherwise, people like me would not know about it.Greg DeLassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12572157616072184165noreply@blogger.com