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The Russo-Georgian War included an extensive information war. ==During the conflict== The Russian military attempted a few new steps to support an information campaign. Russian journalists were brought along with the Russian troops to report on the progress of the Russians in protecting its citizens and to propagandize Georgian atrocities. The Russians used television footage to gain psychological effects as well with the local population in the separatist regions. The Russians showed on local television footage of their advancing forces liberating the local Russian population. On the other hand, Georgia was unable to show any footage of its troops in action. The Russian government also used a military spokesman in television interviews to provide information on the conduct of the campaign, a first for Russia. From August 8, 2008, the day after the conflict started, Russian and South Ossetian government officials repeatedly cited figures of South Ossetian civilian deaths from Georgian attacks ranging from 1,400 to more than 2,000 and this was used as one of the main justifications for Russian intervention. For instance, Dmitry Medvedev stated that "the actions of the Georgian side cannot be called anything other than genocide" on 10 August 2008. Medvedev also said: "The form this aggression took is nothing less than genocide because Georgia committed heaviest crimes — civilians were torched, sawed to pieces and rolled over by tanks." The Georgian government stopped broadcasting of Russian TV channels and blocked access to Russian websites, during the war and its aftermath, limiting news coverage in Georgia. On 8–10 August 2008, RT aired several news reports about the war in Georgia. The reports started with the huge caption "GENOCIDE".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GENOCIDE: Georgia is killing innocent ossetian people. )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Did mercenaries help Georgia? )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A reporter about the bombing of Tskhinvali )〕 On 9 August 2008, Russian ambassador to Georgia Vyacheslav Kovalenko called the Georgian actions "the most true vandalism"."The city of Tskhinvali doesn't exist anymore. It simply doesn't. It was destroyed by the Georgian military," he claimed. On 10 August 2008, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin accused foreign media of pro-Georgian bias in their coverage of the conflict between Georgia and Russia over breakaway South Ossetia. "We want television screens in the West to be showing not only Russian tanks, and texts saying Russia is at war in South Ossetia and with Georgia, but also to be showing the suffering of the Ossetian people, the murdered elderly people and children, the destroyed towns of South Ossetia, and (capital ) Tskhinvali. This would be an objective way of presenting the material," he said in a statement to Russian news agency. According to him, Western media coverage of the events in the separatist region was "a politically motivated version".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Russia points to media bias in coverage of S.Ossetia conflict )〕 However, ''The Washington Post'', for example, argued that Moscow was engaging in "mythmaking".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mythmaking in Moscow )〕 The Russian Mission to the UN published transcript of the interview of Sergei Ivanov to CNN on August 11: ''For everyone in the United States who was here and for everyone in the United States who has been watching this story and has watched the developments since Friday, can you tell me why Russian tanks, troops, warplanes are in, have been in Georgia?'' Western media has defended its coverage, with Chris Birkett, executive editor of Sky News saying: "I don't think there’s been a bias. Accusations of media bias are normal in times of war. We’ve been so busy with the task of newsgathering and deployment that the idea we've managed to come up with a conspiratorial line in our reporting is bananas." CNN has also defended its coverage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Russia claims media bias )〕 William Dunbar, a reporter for RT TV in Georgia, resigned in protest of alleged bias in the Russian media. He claimed he had not been on air since he mentioned Russian bombing of targets inside Georgia. He told ''The Moscow Times'': "The real news, the real facts of the matter, didn't conform to what they were trying to report, and therefore, they wouldn't let me report it. I felt that I had no choice but to resign." However sources at RT TV called Dunbar's allegations of bias "nonsense". "The Russian coverage I have seen has been much better than much of the Western coverage," one senior journalist said, adding, "My view is that Russia Today is not particularly biased at all. When you look at the Western media, there is a lot of genuflection towards the powers that be. Russian news coverage is largely pro-Russia, but that is to be expected."〔 William Dunbar told ''The Wall Street Journal'' that when he tried to file a report on the August 1 shelling of the Georgian villages by the South Ossetians, his editors weren't interested in the story. On 12 August 2008, RT accused CNN of presenting video footage of destruction in Tskhinvali in South Ossetia, shot by a Russian cameraman, as pictures of destruction in Gori.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CNN use footage of Tskhinvali ruins to cover Georgian report )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Information war during the Russo-Georgian War」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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