A GENERAL POLICY OF ALIENATION.

The article reports on the impact of financial crisis on the news media industry in Russia. According to the author, the television networks report almost daily on how the crisis is creating increasing turmoil in the financial systems of the U.S., European Union and other countries and on the strategies the countries' governments are taking to get out of their difficulties. The author adds that newscasters and commentaros are trying to avoid using the words crisis and collapse.