Don’t believe mainstream media mistruths about anything
I think KGB penetration of U.S. media had reached near totality by the time the Soviet Union fell. American "news" stories read like Izvestia or Pravda now.
It's socially and politically significant in ways never explored by serious researchers, that mediabots in 1972 voted 9:1 for the former Progressive (Stalinist) rump-convention delegate, Sen. George McGovern, over Richard Milhous Nixon, a sitting president who, if he had continued to prosecute Vietnam, had nevertheless gone to China and imposed wage-and-price controls, a favorite liberal nostrum that earned him plaudits from every talking head in sight.
That is a deeply revealing statistic, one that has yet to be wrung out.