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It was four hours after “night” had fallen outside her cell.
Thankfully, they didn’t cut off the television feed. Instead, they fed her an unending supply of American prime time. Endlessly insipid shows and movies with an unseemly number of advertisements. Didn’t Americans have lives?
The only thing she could ever stand to watch was CNN. It was so skewed to American news and American points of view and American “ideals” that it was almost unwatchable. At least they didn’t do the BBC: Oh dear, we’re so very understated about everything distasteful. The Americans were at least blunt about their pitch.
But three a.m. offered few other options.
So it was CNN.
Presidential this. Congress that. Another murder in the streets. Even strolling through southwest Moscow’s Bitsevski Park durin
