What's the difference between the American media and Pravda in the Soviet era?
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Tue Jul-24-07 09:18 PM
What's the difference between the American media and Pravda in the Soviet era?
The Russians knew better than to believe in Pravda.
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Tue Jul-24-07 09:19 PMOriginal message
1. American media speak English, Pravda spoke Russian.
Edited on Tue Jul-24-07 09:19 PM by notsodumbhillbilly
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Tue Jul-24-07 09:19 PMOriginal message
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Tue Jul-24-07 09:21 PMOriginal message
3. The American public has a romantacized idea that the US
Government would not infiltrate US media....
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Tue Jul-24-07 09:22 PMOriginal message
4. They were a bunch of dirty, stinking commies, while our guys are just really lously journalists?
That's a real noodle-scratcher you've posed. :shrug:
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Tue Jul-24-07 09:22 PMOriginal message
5. Located on different continents; otherwise NO DiFFERENCE.
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Tue Jul-24-07 09:23 PMOriginal message
6. Different countries, same crap!
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Tue Jul-24-07 09:24 PMOriginal message
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Tue Jul-24-07 09:25 PMOriginal message
8. Pravda was more often outright lies...
Edited on Tue Jul-24-07 09:27 PM by roamer65
whereas the American media is censorship through a mix of lies, omission and obfuscation. A far more elusive and deadly form of censorship.
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Wed Jul-25-07 07:27 PMReply #8
The American version is much more effective and malicious. It is better at maintaining a veneer of credibility.
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Tue Jul-24-07 09:34 PMOriginal message
The media is our number one problem. They remain a problem because some Democrats benefit from the bullshit as much as Repulicans do.
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Tue Jul-24-07 09:36 PMOriginal message
10. Our media could fix itself
...assuming it had the desire...
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Tue Jul-24-07 09:37 PMOriginal message
11. A lot. For one thing, Pravda was forced to write what it did. Our media just
goes to sleep voluntarily.
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Tue Jul-24-07 09:42 PMOriginal message
Pravda was motivated by fear of the Gulag.
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Wed Jul-25-07 06:10 PMReply #12
They give the appearance of wanting higher profit margins but time and time again have shown they give up profit opportunities to spout mainly right wing talking points. Talk radio is not 90 % conservative because it makes economic sense. If profits were the strongest motive Tuck Carlson would never be on the air.
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Tue Jul-24-07 09:44 PMOriginal message
13. Did they have our equivilant of Olbermann? n/t
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Wed Jul-25-07 06:07 PMReply #13
14. I guess Olbermann is tolerated because he gives the illusion
of a balanced media. One contrarian in a choir of a hundred wingnuts...
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Wed Jul-25-07 06:39 PMOriginal message
16. Not Much...the Soviets didn't have "Internet" but the CRAP that's out there
is so bad...there's not much difference if one only has Tee Vee and not a computer. :shrug:
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Wed Jul-25-07 06:47 PMOriginal message
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Wed Jul-25-07 06:48 PMReply #17
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Wed Jul-25-07 07:10 PMReply #18
22. Swamp Rat, you kill me!
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Wed Jul-25-07 07:06 PMOriginal message
19. Pravda had more credibility.
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Wed Jul-25-07 07:08 PMOriginal message
20. The American Media generally hire prettier people,
of course that could just be my nationalistic streak coming out.
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Wed Jul-25-07 07:09 PMOriginal message
21. I'm not sure of the mileage.
Edited on Wed Jul-25-07 07:10 PM by mmonk
But you are correct. Russians quit believing Pravda. We've got a ways to go here.
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Wed Jul-25-07 07:29 PMOriginal message
plus our media has WAY more CIA operatives than Pravda had KGB
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Wed Jul-25-07 07:31 PMOriginal message
25. With Pravda, Russians learned to read between the lines...
With the American Media, Americans are leaning to read between the lies.
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