From Russia with crud
July 22nd 2008 02:47
Getting the Pravda spin on things
Where do you go for reliable news reporting? I have several favourites, but I'm always looking for interesting new sites. Which is how I came today for the first time to the English-language, on-line version of the Russian news agency Pravda.
The site was a surprise to me. Headlines which immediately grab attention are "USA plans to encircle Russia with missiles and radars", "USA to deploy thousands of its interceptor missiles globally", "Pentagon prepares new generation of hypersonic weapons of high precision" and "Russia determined to keep tactical nuclear arms for potential aggressors.
Did someone not tell Pravda that the Cold War is over?
Then comes, "Condoleezza Rice's sexual worries in the White House". The story claims "George and Laura Bush hardly ever speak ... Laura is tired of everything; she is determined to live her own life ... The couple still keeps their relationship alive just because they are contractually obliged to stay together during George W. Bush’s presidency".
None of which explains Condoleezza's role in it, but it does explain Pravda's post-Cold War journalistic philosophy. It has gone from propaganda to proper garbage.
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