[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“It screams for objective reporting!!! Where have the reporters been? Am I now living in the Soviet Union?”

There is no longer any such thing as objective reporting. My view is that this is what we must accept. As for your USSR question, I believe it is actually considerably worse. In the USSR, you would have censorship, of course, but a pretty consistent “party line” and you would be expected to believe that. Remember that in the USSR, there was not the slightest hint of a counter-revolution, either political or informational. We have both of those things, but we also have a VERY active and ever-evolving “feeds” of gaslighting information designed to cast doubt and sow confusion on any given topic. It is because we are in the midst of a giant and active effort to take down and/or dissolve the republic as most of us conceive it.

[The_Media_never_lie]

We have both of those things, but we also have a VERY active and ever-evolving “feeds” of gaslighting information designed to cast doubt and sow confusion on any given topic.

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Absolutely. The Soviets had the advantage that they had the KGB who could come in the darkness of night and "disappear" people. They had "psychiatric" wards to imprison dissidents. They operated Siberian gulags. Pravda media did not need to be nearly as skilled propagandists as our mainstream media, and they never were as good as ours.

We have the best propagandists in the mainstream media the world has ever seen!