Literature vs Media: Journalists vs Novelists
Can 19th century Russian fiction shed light on what’s happening in Russia and Ukraine right now? In this video, I will compare how the media explains the situation and see if literature has a better understanding of the situation. I will pit a YouTuber journalist, Johnny Harris against two giants of Russian Literature, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky as to who can explain the situation better, dead novelists or a lazy journalist? Facts or fiction? And which is which?
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🕔Time Stamps🕔
00:00 Intro
01:36 Lazy journalism (Johnny Harris)
07:16 Tolstoy's theory of history
11:44 Dostoevsky on Russian psyche
14:37 Russian character
17:58 Russia today
20:30 conclusion
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