{"id":26166,"date":"2017-09-27T18:06:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26166"},"modified":"2017-09-30T13:04:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T18:04:17","slug":"the-msms-anti-russia-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26166","title":{"rendered":"The MSM\u2019s Anti-Russia Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The MSM\u2019s Anti-Russia Bias<\/a><\/h3>\n
The U.S. mainstream media (MSM} presents itself as the arbiter of truth-telling and journalistic professionalism \u2013 the global gold standard \u2013 but its deep-seated biases, especially on Russia, belie that self-image, notes William Blum.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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The anti-Russian\/anti-Soviet bias in the American media appears to have no limit. You would think that they would have enough self-awareness and enough journalistic integrity -\u2013 just enough -\u2013 to be concerned about their image. But it keeps on coming, piled higher and deeper.<\/p>\n

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President Reagan meeting with Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev at the Soviet Mission during the Geneva Summit in Switzerland, Nov.20, 1985. (Photo from Reagan presidential library)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

One of the latest cases in point is a review of a new biography of Mikhail Gorbachev in the New York Times Book Review<\/em> (September 10). The review says that Gorbachev \u201cwas no hero to his own people\u201d because he was \u201cthe destroyer of their empire.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is how the New York Times<\/em> avoids having to say anything positive about life in the Soviet Union or about socialism. They would have readers believe that it was the loss of the likes of Czechoslovakia or Hungary et al. that upset the Russian people, not the loss, under Gorbachev\u2019s perestroika<\/em>, of a decent standard of living for all, a loss affecting people\u2019s rent, employment, vacations, medical care, education, and many other aspects of the Soviet welfare state.<\/p>\n

Accompanying this review is a quote from a 1996 Times<\/em> review of Gorbachev\u2019s own memoir, which said: \u201cIt mystifies Westerners that Mikhail Gorbachev is loathed and ridiculed in his own country. This is the man who pulled the world several steps back from the nuclear brink and lifted a crushing fear from his countrymen, who ended bloody foreign adventures [and] liberated Eastern Europe. \u2026 Yet his repudiation at home could hardly be more complete. His political comeback attempt in June attracted less than 1 percent of the vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The MSM\u2019s Anti-Russia Bias The U.S. mainstream media (MSM} presents itself as the arbiter of truth-telling and journalistic professionalism \u2013 the global gold standard \u2013 but its deep-seated biases, especially on Russia, belie that self-image, notes William Blum. The anti-Russian\/anti-Soviet bias in the American media appears to have no limit. You would think that they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11180,16183,5243,6963,496,512,4728,694,11603],"class_list":["post-26166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-american-media","tag-anti-russia-bias","tag-bias","tag-consortium-news","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-msm","tag-russia","tag-william-blum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26261,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26166\/revisions\/26261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}