{"id":33945,"date":"2018-05-04T05:42:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T10:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33945"},"modified":"2018-05-04T05:42:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T10:42:35","slug":"from-the-skripals-to-douma-the-globalist-pravda-network-reveals-its-true-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33945","title":{"rendered":"From the Skripals to Douma, the Globalist Pravda Network Reveals its True Face"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From the Skripals to Douma, the Globalist Pravda Network Reveals its True Face<\/a>
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People living in the Soviet Union had a wonderful phrase to describe the two biggest circulation state-controlled newspapers, Pravda (meaning \u201ctruth\u201d) and Izvestia (meaning \u201cnews\u201d). There\u2019s no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia, was the oft-repeated expression. It is unfortunate that the mainstream media in the Western nations these days don\u2019t have similar sorts of names, since it deprives us of an endless source of amusement in coming up with similarly apposite phrases about them.<\/p>\n

It is, however, increasingly clear that on the great issues of the day, you are about as likely to find the truth in them as you would have done in Pravda, although I expect their sports and gardening sections are still relatively reliable. As for the important political and geopolitical issues of the day, I tend to imagine that on the walls next to the desks in the offices of many of these papers and broadcasters are the following instructions:<\/p>\n

Rules for Reporting on Global Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Repeat Government line unquestioningly.<\/li>\n
  2. If Government line is questioned, accuse those doing the questioning of being Bots, Kremlin-trolls and useful idiots.<\/li>\n
  3. If the persistent questioning won\u2019t go away and the Government line is seen to be contradictory and full of holes, bury the issue completely and start posing deep questions, such as \u201cWhat will Meghan wear?\u201d or \u201cIs there a gender pay gap in midwifery?\u201d or \u201cHow much sugar is really bad for you?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    The Skripal and Douma episodes have demonstrated this perhaps more than any others. First the Government line has been dutifully parroted by the media in a relentless propaganda campaign \u2014 no questions asked. Then there have been attempts to silence or ridicule those who didn\u2019t bow to the parrots and who were asking legitimate questions \u2014 including the appalling treatment meted out to distinguished military men<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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    From the Skripals to Douma, the Globalist Pravda Network Reveals its True Face People living in the Soviet Union had a wonderful phrase to describe the two biggest circulation state-controlled newspapers, Pravda (meaning \u201ctruth\u201d) and Izvestia (meaning \u201cnews\u201d). There\u2019s no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia, was the oft-repeated expression. It is unfortunate […]<\/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":[19772,4801,379,496,15339,20023,19657,742,20024,1250],"class_list":["post-33945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-douma","tag-globalists","tag-government","tag-mainstream-media","tag-pravda","tag-rob-slane","tag-skripal-poisoning","tag-soviet-union","tag-the-blog-mire","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33945","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=33945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33946,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33945\/revisions\/33946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}