There was a vast difference between the old media and the recent media. Subjects such as Gay “Marriage”. transvestite rights, etc. would have been laughed out of the arena. Time was pretty Republican as was Life and Look.
Ted Turner did not own them.
There were even some Democrats who acted as though they loved the nation. Today JFK would have been drummed out of the party and considered a Republican.
As for rewriting “Animal Farm” I can only point out that it was a succinct and devastating exposure of Soviet Communism not an analysis of the Trotsky/Stalin struggle for power. It was intended to be a short novel. Soviet communism was not what Marx wanted since it was very underdeveloped he wanted it in Germany where capitalism was developed. Snowball was shone to be the object of the Five Minutes of Hate, a totalitarian method of population control. There was no need to analyze his beliefs since he was not in power.
“There was a vast difference between the old media and the recent media. Subjects such as Gay “Marriage”. transvestite rights, etc. would have been laughed out of the arena. Time was pretty Republican as was Life and Look. Ted Turner did not own them.”
Time was also responsible for labeling Josef Stalin, of all people, as Person of the Year in 1942. Not to mention listing Adolf Hitler as Person of the Year in 1938. And I already cited how the New York Times, in particular Herbert Matthews, was practically the reason why Castro even got control of Cuba rather than executed. And let’s not forget the New Republic under Walter Lippmann, and Lippmann was considered to be a more valuable asset to the Soviets than even I.F. Stone, certainly provided more useful sources than he ever did if Eric Alterman is to be believed, and he’s done this since 1944. And if the media could risk promoting those ideologies back then, they most certainly would have, similar to how Obama was “against gay marriage before he was for it”, when in reality, he only was “against it” because the polls said he should appear to be against it. You can even read some examples here: https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2009/07/17/declassified-documents-reveal-kgb-spies-in-the-us
“There were even some Democrats who acted as though they loved the nation. Today JFK would have been drummed out of the party and considered a Republican.”
So please explain why Joseph McCarthy was drummed out of politics when he made his attempt at exposing the communist presence in America? Please explain why the Democrats, despite acting like they loved their nation, made absolutely no attempt to aid McCarthy in outright purging their government of Communist influence, OR aid the guys at HUAC in purging elements of Hollywood, the media, and others of Communist influence?
“As for rewriting “Animal Farm” I can only point out that it was a succinct and devastating exposure of Soviet Communism not an analysis of the Trotsky/Stalin struggle for power. It was intended to be a short novel. Soviet communism was not what Marx wanted since it was very underdeveloped he wanted it in Germany where capitalism was developed. Snowball was shone to be the object of the Five Minutes of Hate, a totalitarian method of population control. There was no need to analyze his beliefs since he was not in power.”
Snowball WAS in power, though, at least until Napoleon sicced his dogs on him. And he was considered to be fairly popular among the animals until Napoleon sicced the dogs on him and began rewriting history. And I’m not acting they should do essays on the subject, just one or two incidental lines of dialogue on his part would have sufficed.
And as far as Marx, actually, he most certainly would have wanted Soviet Communism during his deathbed. According to Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals, when he learned about his growing influence in Russia on December 1882, three months prior to his demise, he said, and I quote, “Nowhere is my success more delightful. It gives me the satisfaction that I damage a power which, next to England, is the true bulwark of the old society.” He may not have initially planned for Russia to be the originating point of Communism, but he most certainly was willing to accept it as that zealously nearing his deathbed. And don’t forget, Marx was the same guy who said, among other things, “Once we are at the helm, we shall be obliged to reenact the year 1793 [the Reign of Terror]. [...] We are pitiless and we ask no pity from you. When our time comes, we shall not conceal terrorism with hypocritical phrases. . . The vengeance of the people will break forth with such ferocity that not even the year 1793 enables us to envisage it. . . .” essentially meaning he WANTED any country after adopting Marxism/Communism to essentially eat its own and have the country burn to borrow a phrase from The Dark Knight.
“SDS was principally domestic. It was split into a Cultural Revolution branch which came to be Weatherman, a pro-Maoist group - the PLP and a community organizing branch - the Intercommunal Survival Committee.”
The SDS was already confirmed to be under direct Soviet influence, at least during early 1968, and may have been under Soviet influence even earlier. If it stopped being under Soviet influence, it’s only because of Ayers’ Weathermen and the RYM II made it Maoist (which means nothing since eve during the late Vietnam War, the Maoists were working hand in hand with the Soviets to ensure Vietnam fell to the Communists).
There were more FBI agents there than KGB. Besides anyone associated with KGB would not be a trained assassin. Those would do everything to avoid ANY publicity.”
If they really did everything to avoid any publicity whatsoever, they clearly failed in that objective since we’re fully aware of their name as well as the fact that are an intelligence agency, not to mention that they also seek to export Communism across the globe by any means necessary.
And besides, I’m pretty sure trying to do a disinformation campaign indicating that right-wing elements in the US Government was responsible for killing JFK isn’t exactly going to prevent them from getting publicity since they’re practically advertising that they’ve got something to hide there.