Political bias in the media.

Question

I've been watching coverage of the events in Georgia and South Ossetia. The western media (BBC, Sky, CNN) is painting a very different picture than that from the RT channel (Russia Today)

To anybody who has all of these channels - who do you believe and why?

Answer 1

Russians are notorious for lying about what really goes on in their own country and the regions around them. Why should we start believing them now.

Answer 2

From Wikipedia:

'South Ossetia (...) is a region in the South Caucasus, formerly the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. A part of it has been de facto independent from Georgia since it declared independence as the Republic of South Ossetia early in the 1990s during the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. The capital of the region is Tskhinvali.

The independence has not been diplomatically recognized by any member of the United Nations – which continues to regard South Ossetia as part of Georgia. Georgia has retained control over parts of the region's eastern and southern districts where it created, in April 2007, a Provisional Administrative Entity of South Ossetia[...] headed by ethnic Ossetians (former members of the separatist government) which would negotiate with central Georgian authorities regarding its final status and conflict resolution.'

They declared independence in 1990. As far as I'm concerned, they are independent, like Kosovo. If they want to join North Ossetia in Russia, they should be able to. They are not part of Georgia since 1990.