Times are changing. Pro-Russian propaganda from alternative media is clearly gaining the upper hand. Regardless of whether someone likes it or not, alternative media have long since overpowered mainstream media.
Most politicians, whether from the government or the opposition, do not hide their greater or lesser support for many ideas from alternative media.
I personally think that we need to find a healthy middle ground. No extreme is good. Just as it is a mistake to invite illegal migrants to Slovakia, it is a mistake to invoke Putin as a god who will solve all problems in Slovakia and Europe.
It should be noted that not all that glitters is gold, although the pro-Russian propaganda of alternative media seems to be right about everything.
The state power is very well disposed towards alternative media. I was absolutely shocked that INTV television was not fined for repeated violations of the law, that in the extremely one-sided, fanatical, and radical Russophile, Putin-phile shows of Lichtner and Huďo, they did not invite the opposing side to the show to balance it. And I took it for granted that a fine would come immediately after Lichtner's first show on INTV. I was absolutely shocked by Lichtner's immense courage when the fanatically one-sided shows were without an opposing side!!!
The second very controversial case was the cooperation of TASR with the Russian state agency Sputniknews. I am not a fanatical Russophobe and I have nothing against TASR cooperating with Russian media as such . The catch, however, is that Russian state media are the least objective, they are media full of total crap and primitive propaganda. Russian state media write about nothing else but how to hate the West, how the West does nothing but want to militarily attack Russia. In contrast, non-state Russian media are much more objective and there is some room for minor criticism of the government, and their reporting is also about something other than the fanatical glorification of Putin.
Why did TASR decide to cooperate with the least objective Russian media? Why didn't TASR decide to cooperate with more objective non-state Russian media instead?
It is interesting that the alternative media themselves deliberately and very honestly censor and ignore non-state Russian media, because it does not fit into their fanatically Putin-philic propaganda, but they draw information exclusively from state media.