It"s telling how sparse and neutral Western...

They did not even reference such textbook examples as the 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells" "War of the Worlds", which Americans believed was an actual report of a Martian invasion, or a similar broadcast on Ecuadorian radio in 1949, which resulted in an attack on the station that claimed the lives of six people.

Meanwhile, if Channel One Russia had broadcast a fake story about NATO"s invasion of Kaliningrad, for example, the outpouring of irony from Vancouver to Tokyo would have been endless. Perhaps Saakashvili is disappointed by the coverage. After all, nothing upsets a creative PR man more than limited media coverage. No doubt, Saakashvili is a PR man. This is how Zurab Noghaideli, his former prime minister, referred to him today during an interview via satellite with RIA Novosti. "We can expect a lot more PR stunts from Saakashvili in the future," he told Russian and Georgian journalists.

Alas, what passes for PR these days would have been labeled lies, provocation

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