[ml/nj]

My understanding is the most Soviet citizens in the old USSR understood that Pravda was BS. How is it that so many Americans still trust the AP et al? Are Russians really that much smarter than Americans?

ML/NJ

[daltec]

There were two major newspapers in the USSR: Pravda (which is Russian for "The Truth") and Izvestiya (which is Russian for "The News").

They had a joke, along the lines of "The Truth is not The News, and The News is not The Truth."

I don't know if Russians are smarter or not, but many of them certainly knew what was going on.