I note that since August 8 the comment section after each Georgia story on The Times of London website have been jam packed with Russian ‘citizens’ defending Russia’s actions. (www.timesonline.co.uk.)

The comments are too obvious and too out of place for the normal traffic at The Times, to be anything but the product of an organized propaganda campaign.

Noteworthy (and most telling) are the comments claiming that the west is being deceived by their government controlled medias.

But to the media-savvy filtering western eye, the comments are clumsy and out of touch. They are 20th century tactics on a 21st century public. They have all the finesse of a dancing bear in a ballerina dress.