How Russian Media Covered The Air Strikes In Syria

Russia's First Channel shows the list of countries who "supported the strike". (Supplied)

Thomas Lowe, ABC News Online: 'Complete nonsense': How Russian media covered the air strikes in Syria

Russian news channels were quick on the trigger when reports came in that US missiles were being fired into Syria.

Images of missiles streaking across the night sky were broadcast across the main news channels. MPs woke from their slumbers and lashed out at the West in live interviews.

Watching back-to-back hours of state TV through the day, it was easy to get the feeling that Russia was itself at war.

News programs do tend to follow the official line quite closely, but in this case there was no daylight between the Government and the media.

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WNU Editor: The younger generation in Russia now rely more on social media for their news and information .... not the main stream media. There are pluses and minuses in this trend .... just like it is in the West.