When I was a kid in the Fifties and Sixties,
Network news would often, not just occasionally, report what Pravda, the Soviet's news source, had reported for an incident and of course, it in no way resembled that which the American Network(s) had stated to be the 'facts'. This little maneuver let us 'know' that we were hearing the 'truth' rather than the fictionalized accounting being force-fed the Russians and the other Eastern Bloc populations.
But clearly, the entire time that this was going on, the US Media was taking notes on how this was done. True to form, the populus here, by and large, is complacent and the media, by and large is 'disingenuous' or, to be more blunt and direct, lying scoundrel creepazoid motherfuckers who make the writers and editors at Pravda look like amateurs.
How else could you have the articles about the rapes in Marysville which referred to the "bedding" of one of the girls, yes...not ladies...young girls, and describing the actions as "sexual encounters". If you add this to all the other horrors of our so-called free press which have involved the coverups of assassinations of enemies and friends, foreign and domestic, of wars ill-conceived and carried out, of just about everything deplorable you can conceive of and some things which you can't, you had best better realize that you are living in The Matrix.
I was attempting today to explain to a young person that there were such things which at one time were considered as Higher-order Truths and such, and received an earful of scorn and derision. What was this old guy saying? The truth it seems, is what he believes it to be after giving it careful consideration...say five to ten seconds at the most. Why dwell, right?
The toilet has been flushed, the water and the "log" and the paper are going around and around and around...I now understand why my father and mother gave up this battle in their later years, despite their earlier vociferous political arguments FOR Progressivism, FOR Civil Rights, FOR Justice for ALL. You just get tired of fighting sometimes.
That being said, I am still game for a Battle Royal with the Bad Guys. Bring it on, Rethugs. Bring it on.
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The Soviets ~knew~ they were being lied to.
