The news media has completely gone soviet. The Russian people knew the soviet media was propaganda. Some of it true, some of it out right lies. Many Russians saw right through it. It’s overall purpose was to keep the powers that be in power. The American people, OTOH, haven’t yet figured it out, especially the LIVs.
The astute Soviet knew that the truth was in Pravda if they knew how to decipher the code. For example, the random article in Pravda about toothpaste supplies in Kiev, with nothing more, seemed innocuous to the casual reader. The astute reader knew that meant that Kiev has a shortage of toothpaste. An article on rail safety procedures meant there had been a bad train wreck somewhere (which was never directly reported in the USSR). So Pravda played their game of coded reporting and the people learned something approximating the truth by deciphering the code.
We don’t have that luxury. The American consumer of officially approved news is being manipulated and lied to with deliberately false information. There is no game here of telling a coded truth. It’s just blatant lies. And that’s why the official for-all-intents-and-purposes government press, and the government, hate Kim.com and Wikileaks and all the rest of the bloggers and internet sleuths. They are now the actual purveyors of something approximating the truth.
They may be waking up.From The Hill 5-24-17:
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say the mainstream press is full of fake news, a sentiment that is held by a majority of voters across the ideological spectrum.
According to data from the latest Harvard-Harris poll, which was provided exclusively to The Hill, 65 percent of voters believe there is a lot of fake news in the mainstream media.