Posted on 03/17/2021 4:24:42 AM PDT by keat
The transformation from phony "objectivity" to open one-party orthodoxy hasn't been an improvement.
I collect Soviet newspapers. Years ago, I used to travel to Moscow’s Izmailovsky flea market every few weeks, hooking up with a dealer who crisscrossed the country digging up front pages from the Cold War era. I have Izvestia’s celebration of Gagarin’s flight, a Pravda account of a 1938 show trial, even an ancient copy of Ogonyek with Trotsky on the cover that someone must have taken a risk to keep.
These relics, with dramatic block fonts and red highlights, are cool pieces of history. Not so cool: the writing! Soviet newspapers were wrought with such anvil shamelessness that it’s difficult to imagine anyone ever read them without laughing. A good Soviet could write almost any Pravda headline in advance. What else but “A Mighty Demonstration of the Union of the Party and the People” fit the day after Supreme Soviet elections? What news could come from the Spanish civil war but “Success of the Republican Fleet?” Who could earn an obit headline but a “Faithful Son of the Party”?
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
Hits it out of the ballpark!
BTTT
Reporters won’t be needed; re-education camps for thee!
The falsehood of an unbiased press is sold by the press themselves. It's a lie encouraged by tax and campaign laws.
Their biased stories are political campaign donations-in-kind but they need to pretend it's unbiased so that they don't exceed donation limitations and the recipient doesn't have to declare it as a donation.
The same is true of news stories that are really nothing more than "free" advertisements. The owner takes a cash payment and runs a positive news story while the tax man is kept out of the loop.
The only difference between Pravda and the American press is that the readers of Pravda knew they were being lied to.
..and Taibbi is a longtime lib.
The only difference between Pravda and the American press is that the readers of Pravda knew they were being lied to.
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May use that as a tagline if you don’t mind
Press? Culture, Religion, neighbors starting to squeel on neighbors, etc etc etc....
This is an important story as it comes from the Left revealing the danger of the Rat Sovietization of “news.”
That’s a difference between the Russian People and the American People.
Leftist/liberal-mix Matt Taibbi has had a number of interesting opinion pieces the past year.
I think your comments are severely out of date. There’s really only trivial pretense anymore.
Matt Taibbi is reliably anti-totalitarian. A “capitalist” like Bill Gates is 100% totalitarian. The new allegiances will differ greatly from the old.
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